Example sentences of "she saw [conj] it " in BNC.

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1 Because she saw that it Was true .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Now , about to cross , she saw that it was swirling much more swiftly than when she had crossed before and fallen in .
5 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 !
6 She saw that it was covered with badly printed words , amongst which ‘ Wellwisher ’ stood out .
7 The door to the dressing room opened and to her surprise she saw that it was Hugo .
8 And in that twilight world between waking and sleeping she saw that it was a face she knew , her own .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Glancing at the big old wall-clock , she saw that it was still only eight-thirty .
13 As it came nearer she saw that it was a little man in his mid-forties .
14 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 .
15 She saw that it had been a mistake — an evasion perhaps ? — ; to hamper herself with the abstractions of that cryptic poem .
16 Incongruously festive for a stretcher , but she saw that it would serve the purpose very well .
17 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 .
18 Looking around the room , she saw that it was , indeed , a workroom .
19 She saw that it was a working diagram , precisely drawn , but decorative because of its delicate penmanship .
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