Example sentences of "[noun] she saw be " in BNC.
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1 | She soon decided that the house was the most beautiful place she had ever seen , and though she had little experience of antique furniture or fine art works she immediately recognised that all the things she saw were of the highest quality . |
2 | When Susan Hart arrived in Longrock , the first person she saw was Luke Mallen . |
3 | Cecilia opened the small red book and the first name she saw was Bleech-Palmer . |
4 | When she finally went to the family planning clinic , the woman she saw was not very sympathetic , she said " What school do you go to ? " and when I told her she said " You 've really thrown away your chances . " " |
5 | ‘ My aunt had … this other general opinion … that every man she saw was a pick-pocket . ’ |
6 | Two of the men now hoisted her up , and when she was seated in the chair she slowly opened her eyes , and the first thing she saw was the great broad face of Betty Felton . |
7 | Hari looked over the woman 's shoulder and the first thing she saw was the leather boots standing on the table . |
8 | The last thing she saw was the audience of men gazing at her curiously as her body was handled like a lump of meat . |
9 | The first thing she saw was the white dog , back from its stroll , seated on a rag rug in front of a two-bar electric fire , beating its tail leisurely yet rhythmically … thump … thumppp … in time to the slow , pulsing beat of the air on the fiddle . |
10 | But when she entered the little kitchen the first thing she saw was the flowers . |
11 | The first thing she saw was a hand , old , bent with arthritis , clutching a book . |
12 | Maggie pushed her way through the swinging plate-glass doors and as usual the first thing she saw was a giant mock-up of the front of the magazine , glossy , colourful and slightly daunting , the name magnified out of proportion : QUERY ! |
13 | She stormed off and away and the last thing she saw was Felipe helping Mitch out of the pool , his dark face still lightened by a very wide grin . |
14 | The first thing she saw was the fresh blood staining his sleeve . |
15 | She was convinced that sailors and tourists she saw were his emissaries , sent to proclaim his love for her . |
16 | The only bird she saw was a crow flying high above , its black outline alien and unwelcome against the clear blue of the sky . |