Example sentences of "[coord] saw it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul VI did love the ‘ modern world ’ and saw it reflected through the painters and writers he admired . |
| 2 | She achieved the crest of the road and saw it spill over , and the village in the bottom of the valley , silent as if drowned a hundred years beneath a lake . |
| 3 | When Mrs Chamberlin had gone , hurrying into the gloomy February afternoon , her oatmeal figure bent resolutely against the wind , Alexandra looked round the drawing-room and saw it had an animated , unsettled look , as if the last caller had stirred everything to action , all the silver photograph frames , the vases and pin-cushions , the rugs and cushions and shaded lamps . |
| 4 | She looked at Lily 's shrunk and sanded face , abstracted on some pinnacle of pain , and saw it lanced by the fierce thrust of grass and sucked dry by the brutal assault of flowers . |
| 5 | A spark of hope was rekindled in him , as his eye traced the faint line and saw it formed a two-foot square . |
| 6 | Maggie looked down and saw it moving at some speed ; dust flung up in a stream behind it and it was waiting as they taxied to a halt . |
| 7 | They had built up the fabric in their minds again and could even feel some weary well-being as they neared Weem and saw it sheltering between the steep hills and the flood plain of the Tay . |
| 8 | Nails watched it with horrified fascination , and saw it start to slide towards him . |
| 9 | And I looked up unto the pole of the heaven and saw it standing still , and the fowls of the heavens without motion . |
| 10 | As in Protevangelium ; And I looked up into the pole of the heavens and saw it standing still , and the fowls of the heavens without motion … |
| 11 | He turned quickly and saw it coming up the slope behind him . |
| 12 | ‘ Name of a fox , ’ said Blackbeard between his teeth , ‘ the woman was in the place and saw it handed to me . |
| 13 | Karen watched her friend 's face and saw it closed , hurting . |
| 14 | I was about to return fire but saw it came from a Croatian position . ’ |