Example sentences of "[pron] saw [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bible I saw that it only got 68% . |
| 2 | A huge , heavy , panelled oak door faced it , and peering through the windows I saw that it led into the mill kitchen . |
| 3 | His wife Jean , 70 , said : ‘ When I saw that it was the only laugh I have had since Theo 's death . |
| 4 | As predicted , he was holding a bottle , but I saw that it was almost if not quite full . |
| 5 | To my great surprise , I saw that it was an English ship ! |
| 6 | She showed no inclination to argue further , but lay back in her chair , smiling at Robert , and I saw that it was not , as I had believed , understanding and acceptance that her smile revealed , not that their marriage was so secure it could sustain itself in the face of any disagreement , but that Lili could afford to be pleasant because she had no scruples . |
| 7 | As I passed the palatial ship of Gharr the Gherpotean , I saw that it was shut up tight , with no sign of activity . |
| 8 | Fastening my watch round my wrist I saw that it was after seven and I could hear the farm men clattering in the yard outside as they began their morning tasks . |
| 9 | He wore old , dirty clothes , and I had to look very hard before I saw that it was my old friend . |
| 10 | Then I saw that it had a light on the top and the crest of Kent Fire Brigade on the driver 's door . |
| 11 | I pulled in there as it seemed a good place to get Armstrong off the road and it was only then I saw that it was in fact an unmade road curving away round the back of the hill . |
| 12 | This was a very old set and did not always work ; as I did not make contact with the control tower I came round and I saw that it was all clear for me to land , so I put my wheels down and made my approach . |
| 13 | I knew that one as soon as I saw that it was from that is was a reject one . |
| 14 | Because she saw that it Was true . |
| 15 | Then she saw that it was a grey bird like a station pigeon , yet not trapped beneath a glass roof but sitting freely outside amongst fluttering leaves . |
| 16 | She had suspected in Lucca , all those months ago , that Mrs Browning no longer cared for her as once she had done but she saw that it was worse than that : she was a nuisance , plain and simple . |
| 17 | Now , about to cross , she saw that it was swirling much more swiftly than when she had crossed before and fallen in . |
| 18 | Next instant she had a great thrill , for as the van swung into the lane past her she saw that it was full of Brownies , with luggage all around them ! |
| 19 | She saw that it was covered with badly printed words , amongst which ‘ Wellwisher ’ stood out . |
| 20 | The door to the dressing room opened and to her surprise she saw that it was Hugo . |
| 21 | And in that twilight world between waking and sleeping she saw that it was a face she knew , her own . |
| 22 | Through her tears , Constance began to tell the dreadful story — and , hearing it with her aunt 's ears , she saw that it was indeed dreadful . |
| 23 | When she got to her desk she saw that it would not do ; it was not an essay day but at that rate there would be no essay to write ; she had not done her week 's reading . |
| 24 | Looking around the bedroom , she saw that it was almost exactly as it had been in the photograph , although now there was a book open and face downwards on the patchwork quilt . |
| 25 | Glancing at the big old wall-clock , she saw that it was still only eight-thirty . |
| 26 | As it came nearer she saw that it was a little man in his mid-forties . |
| 27 | Richard 's Johnson , obedient to the pressed button , came to life at once , and she saw that it had never occurred to him that it might n't . |
| 28 | She saw that it had been a mistake — an evasion perhaps ? — ; to hamper herself with the abstractions of that cryptic poem . |
| 29 | Incongruously festive for a stretcher , but she saw that it would serve the purpose very well . |
| 30 | When the frame was unfolded and set up she saw that it contained two photographs — one of a good-looking white-haired clergyman wearing a biretta , and the other of a ‘ sweet-faced ’ woman , her slender hand fondling the large cameo brooch at the throat of her dark dress . |