Example sentences of "[coord] she see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The domestic empiricist is not concerned with the generalities or principles underlying the cooker or the car ; he or she sees what has to be done to achieve a desired end and that is that . |
| 2 | Anyone can help by making a clear list of what he or she sees as the consequences of the sufferer 's drinking . |
| 3 | Since a Prime Minister without a majority in the Commons is an impossibility , he or she is seen as in a position to make any law he or she sees as fit . |
| 4 | ‘ I think that any down-side would more than be offset by the increased simplicity which single pricing would bring the client , allowing him or her to see exactly what they are getting . ’ |
| 5 | Then the brighter light of electricity drove out the ghostly moonbeams and she saw only her daughter , her child , flat out on her bed , naked , apparently bedecked in diamonds and rubies , a fierce tattoo of glass and blood . |
| 6 | He neither went towards her nor withdrew and she saw it could not go on like that . |
| 7 | She could virtually match the data bases of bodies like UCCA for up-to-the-minute information , and she saw earlier than most the new opportunities opening up in Europe for higher education students . |
| 8 | He looked at her , defeated , and she saw that she had carried the point , but at a heavy cost . |
| 9 | She swam for 40 km ( 25 miles ) in the shark-infested Indian Ocean , but she had cut her foot and she saw half a dozen sharks trailing her . |
| 10 | He joined her in the kitchen , and she saw that the descriptions which had reached her through the field telegraph and by which she had recognised him , were accurate . |
| 11 | Suddenly the dogs scampered off , and she saw them jumping up to greet a dark figure . |
| 12 | But she had no way of signalling to Keith , and she saw him frown ominously . |
| 13 | And she saw old Billy , his toothless gums mumbling away at the mashed-up food she spooned into his mouth . |
| 14 | He came to spend the night , by agreement , twice a week and she saw him every day but there was no denying that he seemed a visitor and never a member of her household . |
| 15 | A crash behind her made her turn and she saw the enraged old man had hurled his soup dish at the far wall where it hit the pretty paper and ran in thin trickles down onto the pale-grey carpet . |
| 16 | A few yards on and she saw there was no answering wave and she faltered , uncertain if this was Ferdinando or some other lone horseman before whom she would make a fool of herself , but the closer he came the more sure she was that this was her husband and then she chided herself for thinking he had hands free to wave when one was needed for the reins and the other to hold the child . |
| 17 | He strode about the drawing room restlessly , occasionally hitting the back of a chair with his hand , and she saw how pent-up were his energies . |
| 18 | Under his arm he carried a large portfolio of drawings and she saw that he had pencils sticking out from his pocket . |
| 19 | A lady traveller on the Exeter express told John Ruskin that she was in the carriage from which Turner put his head out in a rainstorm to record the scene mentally , and she saw the picture at the Royal Academy the next year , in 1844 . |
| 20 | An old tramp was sitting on a rustic seat in the sunshine a few yards away , and she saw him toss an envelope on to the grass . |
| 21 | In order to reach the post-box she had , of course , to pass Upmeadow Farm , and she saw that there was a light in one of the downstairs rooms . |
| 22 | Her friend 's small figure rose before her , and she saw again those vivid blue eyes , the broad forehead , and the gallant tilt of the pointed chin . |
| 23 | Then he took a pace forward and she saw he was dressed in the russet smock of a verderer . |
| 24 | ‘ I can imagine that , ’ said Catriona , and she saw the local , dark and quiet and fairly empty , and Forgue in his donkey jacket and tartan scarf listening to an old man talk about mining in Calgary . |
| 25 | There was a patch of ground at the side of the cottage where washing was strewn to dry on the bushes , and she saw Angel 's patchwork blanket . |
| 26 | She sat down beside him , instinctively putting her arm out to support him , but he jerked forward with a sharp gasp , and she saw the brown lines of dried blood across the back of his shirt . |
| 27 | And as he spoke he swung the billhook and she saw that its tip was red with blood . |
| 28 | Then her vision cleared and she saw the familiar objects , the Aga and the gas stove with the nearby working surfaces , the table of polished oak in the middle of the room with its four elegantly crafted chairs , and at the far end Alice 's office with the walls covered with bookshelves and her desk piled with proofs . |
| 29 | He lifted it and looked at her , and she saw that his skin was like a Red Indian 's , incredibly weathered , his eyes red-raw , his mouth cruel , damaged . |
| 30 | He never looked away from her and she saw that the pain in his eyes had been his vision of the sea tearing at him , his soul screaming no , no to earth , no to this , no to her . |