Example sentences of "she saw [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave him her best smile , liking what she saw under the porch lantern . |
| 2 | What she saw under the lights was a boat , a big one in too small a space . |
| 3 | During the case of the nine children who were taken into care in February 1991 , one long-standing member of the Panel resigned because of what she saw as the deterioration in the Children 's Panel Hearing system in Orkney since the suspension of Mrs Kemp . |
| 4 | I am so jealous and protective of her , ’ but , close as she was to Louise , she could n't bring herself to admit what she saw as the black depths of her failure with her daughter . |
| 5 | It was what she saw as the excessive time and attention given to the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians which she objected to most strongly , feeling that it would only be a matter of time before the Governors took action to alter the position . |
| 6 | A physiotherapist talked , for instance , of what she saw as the consequences of a young person complying or not with recommended regimes : |
| 7 | Another outlined what she saw as the consequences : |
| 8 | She discussed in this context who she saw as the twentieth century 's two most influential analysts of theatre : Brecht and Antonin Artaud . |
| 9 | Tell My Horse was the result of one of these trips , written in 1936 as a study of voodoo which , like the ‘ hoodoo ’ of the Southern US , she saw as the African spiritual source underlying the fervour of black Christianity . |
| 10 | The more she saw of the Redmonds the more she liked them , particularly Sarah 's grandmother . |
| 11 | She saw to the side of one of the houses the faded sign for Morgan and family , boot and shoemakers , fastened over what appeared to be little better than a shed . |
| 12 | When she arrived at the bus station she saw on the wall behind her bold , splashy writing in foreign characters , Arabic maybe or Urdu , and small , disordered scribbles around the glass faces of the timetables , which , although an irritation , caused Rita no real pain . |
| 13 | When Benny opened them she saw on the bed a thick navy skirt , a Fair Isle jumper in navy and red . |
| 14 | My mother had more stories of India than the war : my mother dancing with young men at the club , the cobra she saw on the veranda , the retired doctor in the Indian army who sent her his travelling rug before he died . |
| 15 | The man she saw on the other side was in his late thirties , his hair receding slightly , but what hair he did have was thick and lustrous and reached the collar of his shirt . |
| 16 | As patron of the Macintyre organisation the Duchess of York has worked closely with the mentally disabled for some years , but even she was surprised ; delighted with what she saw on the opening night . |
| 17 | She stared at him a moment , her eyes narrowed slightly , as if she saw through the flesh to the bone itself , and while he met her staring eyes unflinchingly , something in the depths of him squirmed and tried to break away . |
| 18 | The heron profile that she saw through the grille . |
| 19 | Coming back , she saw for the first time that a letter addressed to herself lay on the kitchen table . |
| 20 | Anyway she was that bad , anyone sa who she saw plus the doctor , you know oh he said , oh no ! |
| 21 | And the hostility she saw in the woman 's eyes made her shudder inwardly . |
| 22 | Guy Sterne 's eyes held a glitter of amusement , but a darker emotion she saw in the pale green-grey brought colour sweeping up her neck to her face . |
| 23 | She saw by the look on his face that he was half afraid of her . |
| 24 | It was a quarter past five , she saw from the clock on Bank Station . |
| 25 | Ruth did not have to finish what she had begun to say ; she saw from the look in their eyes that they understood her . |