Example sentences of "she do [adv] see the " in BNC.

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1 She was so busy thinking about the people upstairs that she did not see the figure standing in the shadows of the kitchen doorway .
2 But she did not see the features of the Reverend Mr Bottingley , broad and bland behind his handkerchief .
3 She did not see the S.S.O. coming quickly out of the library and crossing the entrance .
4 When Rosa looked at the Madonna of the Spasm , she did not see the immaculate mother , the tower of ivory , the fountain sealed , the spring shut up , the enclosed garden of the Madonna 's perpetual virginity .
5 She pretended to be busy dealing with her correspondence but she did not see the letters she appeared to be looking at .
6 Coun. Mrs Town said she did not see the difference between a severe hardship permit and a special badge , and accused the council officers of ‘ just playing with words ’ .
7 She added that she did not see the men doing these things to her sisters because : ‘ I was in the dark cupboard then . ’
8 She did n't see the dark nineteen-year-old youth , for he did n't look nineteen : there was hardly any stubble on his chin , his face was pale , his mouth tender , his clear grey eyes filled with the hurt of love .
9 Now , she did n't see the point .
10 She stared ahead of her to where Wind Street met High Street but she did n't see the portico of the inn she was passing or the ornate facades of the tall houses ; she was acknowledging to herself that she was falling more and more in love with Craig Grenfell .
11 So preoccupied was she thinking about the unseemly position of her raised buttocks , that she did n't see the whip rise to crack across her beleathered fundament .
12 She did n't see the grimace of annoyance cross his face at her desertion , but Martin did .
13 What she meant , she told herself , was that no living creature would choose to be a pet , and nothing would opt for imprisonment , and when she went home she 'd feel trapped and , if she did n't know it was happening , she 'd rather be shot — as long as she did n't see the bullet coming .
14 She did n't see the men who did it .
15 She was toying with the sand , scooping it up and letting it trail through her fingers , and she did n't see the expression in his eyes when he next spoke .
16 She was content to let it wash over her , occasionally noticing , like someone with a different first language , the way they laughed at things she did n't see the humour of , were made angry by perfectly innocent-sounding newspaper articles , discussed people she had never heard of as if they were better known than the Royal Family .
17 but she did n't see the on you know , on the cake , it 's all .
18 And she makes it very plain that she does n't see the fun of cooking for me !
19 ‘ I just hope , ’ Meredith said , ‘ that she does n't see the chap with the placard .
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