Example sentences of "she [verb] see a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although she 'd seen a couple of nice men recently , when it came to the heavy breathing Miranda found that she did n't want to be touched intimately by anyone she did n't know well . |
| 2 | But Maggie had heard him draw notes out of it which rent the air with their sadness , and through his music she 'd seen a side of him he 'd kept hidden from the world . |
| 3 | On that morning Mrs. Millings was late because she 'd seen a body in the Thames while crossing Southwark Bridge . |
| 4 | Shannon had never been able to believe that ; as a child she 'd seen a photograph of her father , and even then she 'd been stunned to silence by his incredible good looks . |
| 5 | HER ROYAL HIGHNESS , Princess Margaret honoured the Queen 's Hotel in Leeds , by choosing to stay at the hotel , when a patron of the Northern Ballet , she came to see a performance of Swan Lake at Leeds Grand Theatre . |
| 6 | But Ruth 's eye was drawn back to the great tower of rock , and on the very top , high above , she seemed to see a jut of walls and pinnacles , glimmering like hard edges of light . |
| 7 | Startled , she turned to see a man with a gun walking out of the folly and then , to her relief , a dog at his heels . |
| 8 | Keeping her eyes on Robert as he began to talk to Dawn , she waited to see a change of expression on Dawn 's face , then , suddenly , her view was blotted out by a tall figure handing her a glass of wine . |
| 9 | She had seen a scene like that once , in a film about a prison island where convicts were dumped and left to fend fur themselves . |
| 10 | On other pages , she had seen a village of huts set in the lee of a bluff , where mothers — Italian mothers with babies on their laps — were sitting in the sun on chairs , just like at home . |
| 11 | An hour or so ago , she had seen a stone of the right size and shape lying on the edge of a garden , and had put it into her pocket . |
| 12 | She had seen a phone in the big hall they called the vestibule . |
| 13 | She had said , her eyes glittering with simulated enthusiasm , that she could hardly wait to get to her cottage , and Betty had said wistfully that it seemed like years since she had seen a blade of grass ( which was silly in itself , because of what else were the lawns of Hyde Park composed ? ) ; so Lydia , unhinged with the shock of bereavement , and further undone by wine , had said she could come too . |
| 14 | She had seen a lot of Japanese kaiju eiga flatties as a child thanks to a quirk of her father 's , and had now been able to draw on her memories of them . |
| 15 | She had seen a leaflet about the YCs and thought that this would provide a good way of getting to know people . |
| 16 | She was sure she had seen a hand in the drawer , a hand with little pink nails and a silver ring on one finger . |
| 17 | my wife says she 's seen a programme on telly . |