Example sentences of "see that [pron] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I 'll tell you a good story about that , to s , to let you see that it was a well beaten track . |
| 2 | ‘ I could see that it was no good trying to persuade him [ Churchill ] to change his mind , ’ MacDonald said . |
| 3 | It was when I started having health and financial problems that I began to re-evaluate my life , and I could see that it was an appalling misery . |
| 4 | At once , he could see that it was the same monstrous nightmare that had attacked them in the basement . |
| 5 | She began travelling in earnest in 1927 when she was thirty-four ; later she crossed Persia , her long hair flowing , because she felt marginally safer from attack if bandits could see that she was a woman . |
| 6 | He could see that she was a gentle uncomplicated creature , whose life ran on clearly defined tracks . |
| 7 | But as Hatch stared at Cowley , as the men came close , Cowley could see that there was a more dangerous quality in the man 's cool gaze , and in the cut of his jaw . |
| 8 | Yes , he could see that there was a problem . |
| 9 | Peeping cautiously , I could see that there was a balcony overlooking the garden . |
| 10 | The Greater York authorities therefore looked for a widening of the options available , er , in Greater York , and those that have seen the Greater York study , and it is a document that we 've put in to the examination will see that there was a fundamental full scale wide ranging er assessment er of all the options er open er within the er Greater York er area and they are er set out erm in pages three er and four of N Y five . |
| 11 | Now that he had moved nearer Fran could see that there was a muscle ticking along the hard line of his jaw and that his eyes were glittering with something more than mere mockery , and she went cold . |
| 12 | so you know it was just flowing along smoothly , you could n't see that there was a wi er weir there |
| 13 | They could see that there was no satisfying the Catholics . |
| 14 | Though her natural inclination was to turn round and zoom straight back again , Mildred could see that there was no escape . |
| 15 | Mildred gave one last , long look into Maud 's eyes , but she could see that there was no hope of Maud recognizing a half-mad frog as her best friend . |
| 16 | Looking back at the decade of 1965–75 , which Bacon and Eltis consider critical for the economic health of the country , one can see that there was no shortage of labour because unemployment increased during this period . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't — yes , I could do that , ’ said Caspar , who could not do it at all , but could see that there was no other answer to be given . |
| 18 | Could n't he see that there was no future for them , no past ? |