Example sentences of "[noun] she [vb past] see the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grainne listened , absorbed and serious , and in her mind she began to see the old Ireland , the Ireland of the lost enchantments , very clearly . |
| 2 | In that fleeting instant she had seen the soldier of her dreams . |
| 3 | Of course she had seen the massive building on the junction with Oxford Street . |
| 4 | Elisabeth recalled the times she had seen the midwife arrive at a peasant 's cottage . … |
| 5 | Since being in Carstairs she had seen the baby twice and the visits had gone well and social workers hoped to continue this . |
| 6 | For one fleeting moment she had seen the temptation to kiss her in his eyes , and , gallingly , part of her had wanted him to . |
| 7 | She met his eyes , searching for any lingering trace of the bleakness she had seen the night before , but there was none , only undiluted wickedness flirting with her senses . |
| 8 | Then she cradled the tits the way she 'd seen the girls do in Ryan 's father 's porno movies . |
| 9 | Despite her alleged impatience to hear about his experiences during the pay-off , she made no attempt to refer to it again , launching instead into a blow-by-blow account of a film she had seen the previous evening , going on to explain that she loved films , really loved them , that the only place to see them properly was the cinema , that her favourite was a wonderful old place in the centre of town called the Minerva , and what a shame it was that no one went to the cinema any more . |
| 10 | Ever since the first time she had seen the Hare-woman standing in the Post Office , staring with her luminous eyes as she told one lie after another , she had known that there was something wrong about her . |
| 11 | Many a time she had seen the hounds draw such a covert and heard them open and challenge as the fox broke . |
| 12 | It was the first time she 'd seen the Dane who was her target . |
| 13 | Last summer in Leeds she had seen the burlesque Little Jack Sheppard , when the Gaiety 's new manager , George Edwardes , sent it on tour . |