Example sentences of "she saw [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the train drew near she looked out for Rough Stones , the house up on the hillside where they had made their first home ; but it was night , and all she saw was a glimmer that could as well have been a shepherd 's lantern . |
| 2 | The only bird she saw was a crow flying high above , its black outline alien and unwelcome against the clear blue of the sky . |
| 3 | ‘ My aunt had … this other general opinion … that every man she saw was a pick-pocket . ’ |
| 4 | But in her personal and religious life she was very far from wise or sober , which might lead theologians to think that the apparition of Christ which she saw was a hallucination rather than a pure vision . |
| 5 | And what she saw was a set of strong forceful lines — curved nose , high cheekbones , wide mobile mouth , a strong jutting chin and an implacable jawline . |
| 6 | The first thing she saw was a hand , old , bent with arthritis , clutching a book . |