Example sentences of "saw [that] they [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To her horror , she saw that they were exposed to his avid gaze . |
| 2 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 3 | She did not feel afraid , but when she looked down at her hands she saw that they were shaking . |
| 4 | Their skimpy costumes were decorated with two huge ostrich plumes , attached to their heads , and to their backsides : and she saw that they were harnessed to look like two ponies . |
| 5 | I gave directions and Emily Lightbody saw that they were carried out . |
| 6 | He glanced at the map of the Underground on the panel opposite and saw that they were approaching Embankment Station . |
| 7 | It seemed like a complete breakdown ; but after a few minutes he saw that they were playing as if they had always played this way . |
| 8 | Moving towards the table to lay down her load , she almost laughed when she saw that they were playing cat 's cradle . |
| 9 | Then , to her surprise and annoyance , she saw that they were greeting Ianthe Broome with every appearance of being old friends . |
| 10 | Fonda examined the premise and eventually saw that they were making a much broader statement about the American Dream and the state of the nation itself at that precise moment in time . |