Example sentences of "saw [conj] it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | Endill climbed to the shelf where he had left the cough mixture and saw that it had gone . |
| 2 | Studying the map back at the motor cycle , he saw that it had once carried what was now that branch of the Makaa River which flowed down the valley below the track up to the President 's cabin . |
| 3 | She wished frantically to go faster , and the broomstick sped away ; but as it spurted past , the weathercock made a savage peck at it , and Carol , glancing round , saw that it had snatched a bunch of twigs out with its beak . |
| 4 | As a feudal ruler he could not concentrate all power in his own hands , and the East India Company saw that it had to deal with a hundred local rulers . |
| 5 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 6 | As they moved cautiously towards it , Fenella saw that it had opened for them just the smallest sliver and that beyond it were shards of light . |
| 7 | She looked it over , saw that it had at least two exits , and gave him a cautious yes . |
| 8 | He began by explaining his mission for AEA and whether he saw that it had been accomplished . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She saw that it had been a mistake — an evasion perhaps ? — ; to hamper herself with the abstractions of that cryptic poem . |
| 11 | Her tutored eye saw that it had been made by a skilled seamstress , the tight , low-cut bodice erupting in a flurry of lace at the breast , the equally tight sleeves stiff with fake pearls and silver thread which formed the same flower design that was on the over-skirt . |
| 12 | Then I saw that it had a light on the top and the crest of Kent Fire Brigade on the driver 's door . |
| 13 | 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 . |