Example sentences of "[coord] saw [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got the binoculars and saw that it was narrow and straight ; it was smoke from a small fire . |
| 2 | Endill climbed to the shelf where he had left the cough mixture and saw that it had gone . |
| 3 | I looked at the time and saw that it was a new world record , so I thought that I , too , must have run fast . |
| 4 | She glanced at her watch , which was luminous , and saw that it was past teatime . |
| 5 | Breeze turned to glance at the man who had just entered the shop , and saw that it was Roger Kenyon . |
| 6 | After a long time she looked at her bedside clock and saw that it was past midnight . |
| 7 | Meredith followed her line of sight and saw that it rested on an oldish-looking photo . |
| 8 | He slipped the catch and saw that it contained an assortment of old prayer books , missals , devotional pamphlets , and a pile of booklets about the history of the church . |
| 9 | William looked up at the clock and saw that it was nearing four o'clock . |
| 10 | They all looked at the dark square and saw that it was hardly a manhole , more of a childhole . |
| 11 | Mrs Crump expressed her gratitude with the eloquence of total silence but with a little look which , as Hope noted and saw that it was noted , signalled that she was pierced to the heart . |
| 12 | Any way that was it and you st and you f forked them all round and you after it was er up you was put up to do the tramping round and round and you Every forkful you took it and saw that it was laid down and tramped it round like this , round and round and round and then the next one , till it was up . |
| 13 | Wycliffe spotted the little hut and saw that it would be obliterated by one of the proposed houses . |
| 14 | She glanced at her watch and saw that it was almost midnight . |
| 15 | I looked at mine and saw that it was blank . |
| 16 | Circuiting the crowd that milled around with plates and dishes in search of sustenance , she walked towards it , and saw that it led into a pleasingly arranged conservatory . |
| 17 | I turned and saw that it was the full moon , framed in a space of jagged glass . |
| 18 | She snatched a quick glance backward and saw that it was Meredith Wyatt , grinning like a death's-head . |
| 19 | When its flapping had started to irritate me , I snatched it from him and saw that it was ruled like a timetable . |
| 20 | I checked my watch and saw that it was Thursday . |
| 21 | She looked out and saw that it was a flock of children , of assorted sizes , and both sexes , ranging from ten to fourteen years of age . |
| 22 | And in the third part , " Tuami glanced back at the gap through the mountain and saw that it was full of golden light and the sun was sitting in it " . |
| 23 | She gave a quick glance at her watch , put on an hour on the ferry to accommodate the time change , and saw that it had gone six , and that , apart for a stop for petrol and a brief stop in Aachen for a cup of coffee , she had been driving more or less continuously since just after nine that morning . |
| 24 | Speaking for a generation of American and British intellectuals , Seldes condemned American movies for their ‘ falseness ’ but saw that it was ‘ the falseness of the McKinley era ’ , an era when ‘ the moral and intellectual tone — had not yet become infected with self-criticism ’ . |