Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] [that] she " in BNC.
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| 1 | To his distress he saw that she was trembling slightly . |
| 2 | As the pair reached the bottom he saw that she was , as Eleanor had said , very thin , but he noticed the same rhythm in her movements as she walked across the cove . |
| 3 | ‘ Your steak 's all right ? ’ he enquired courteously , when at one point he observed that she was n't making much headway with it . |
| 4 | With a leap of joy he saw that she understood , could read his mind and arrive before him . |
| 5 | Morse had never seen Mrs Marion Kemp , but from the marriage photograph that hung in the living room he realised that she must once have been quite a vivacious woman : dark , curly hair ; slim , firm figure ; and curiously impudent , puckish eyes . |
| 6 | His grandmother had slumped into a heap but when Asik tried to lift her head he realised that she too had died . |
| 7 | His glance travelled over the girl 's face and the visible parts of her upper body , and with another pang of compassion he saw that she was woefully thin . |
| 8 | But in his heart he sensed that she was lonely and ill at ease . |
| 9 | After the liberation he saw that she escaped her brother 's clutches and got to Rome with enough money to keep her and have the baby safely . |
| 10 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 11 | At the same time he knew that she would be aware that he had never been with a woman before . |
| 12 | He dressed quickly , all the time arguing fiercely with himself , working out possible conversations with his mother , and what he would say to her , the devastating arguments he would present … and all the time he knew that she would say her piece and he would agree . |