Example sentences of "see in [pos pn] [noun] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soft pink draperies were seen in Her Majesty 's bedroom , and all four apartments were beautifully appointed . |
| 2 | It seemed a very personal and special wave — the kind that I had seen in my mind 's eye in a night of tangled dreaming . |
| 3 | Mother Francis would have loved that old cottage to be Eve 's home ; she could see in her mind 's eye a kind of life where Eve would bring her student friends home from university to stay there for weekends , and they would call at the convent and have tea in the parlour . |
| 4 | All Rachel could see in her mind 's eye was Irene Markham 's gaunt features on the day when she 'd gone to Brooklands to pick David up . |
| 5 | I can see in my mind 's eye how the avenue of chestnuts was alight with red and white candles . |
| 6 | After buying the house she had spent hours just walking through it , seeing in her mind 's eye just how it would all look eventually — but turning those dreams into reality was sheer hard graft , and she was n't halfway through yet . |
| 7 | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder , of course , and what he is seeing in his mind 's eye , after years of study into world-wide distribution of disease in relation to diet , is the stool of someone unlikely to die from cancer of the bowel . |
| 8 | Breeze looked up , meaning to expostulate , but was silenced by what she saw in her sister 's face . |
| 9 | She saw in her mind 's eye rude naked women and flames as upright and stiff as those on the covers of boxes of fireworks . |
| 10 | It was of no help to her inner disquiet , as she left her room , that she saw in her mind 's eye a picture of the aristocratic-looking Ven Gajdusek . |
| 11 | Whatever they may have told the pollsters , there must have been countless voters who , as they finally confronted their choice , saw in their mind 's eye the image of a beaming Neil and Glenys standing at the door of Number 10 , and thought , dammit — prompting them to switch back to that decent , straightforward , reliable Mr Major . |
| 12 | An inner excitement gripped me as I saw in my mind 's eye an image of Clare trying to hobble round her bedroom . |
| 13 | Klaus gave the slightest nod , grateful to his son for articulating it ; gratified by the anger he saw in his son 's face . |
| 14 | Whenever Shiva considered the word he saw in his mind 's eye a grinning Mephistopheles with small , curly ram 's horns , capering in frock coat . |
| 15 | He was well on his way to the station when he paused and looked up towards a building , and he saw in his mind 's eye Carrie running up the steps , and he recalled her voice saying , ‘ Oh ! why must you keep on about that . ’ |