Example sentences of "what she saw " in BNC.

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1 Jay lay on her bed , sipping coffee and touching her own face with the tenderness she felt for Lucy , closed her eyes with the dizzy perfection of that moment in the conservatory when they had touched , when she had touched Lucy , and Lucy had walked beside her , seen what she saw ; when her eyes had met Jay 's , dancing with the glory of it all .
2 She did n't care where she went or what she saw as long as he was pleased and she was with him .
3 Sheila was emboldened from what she saw the night before to ask Rose when Moran had gone out again .
4 Kahlo 's adoption of Tehuana dress , while being an attractive disguise of what she saw as a less than perfect body , asserted both a feminist and an anti-colonialist position .
5 The painting was agreed to by Luce in part to recompense for what she saw as her misjudgment of her dead friend .
6 Emboldened by what she saw her friend get away with , Diana felt able to loosen the shackles a little .
7 Asked for her reaction , Margaret Thatcher gave vent to her feelings about the operation and also , I suspect , about what she saw as ever critical broadcasters who always found something to carp about even after an undoubted success .
8 But she could not express in words what she saw in her head .
9 And what SHe saw turned on hir flight or flee circuit in earnest .
10 When she did return to her kingdom , what she saw was , inevitably , very small-scale and impoverished compared to what she had known in France .
11 She ambled down roads and along paths that she knew well and she failed to record what she saw .
12 He was aware of how professional he must appear to her in his preparations for what she saw as killing and which he had been trained to see as protection of the innocent .
13 Whenever she thought of Fergus Wolff , this empty battlefield was what she saw .
14 She gave him her best smile , liking what she saw under the porch lantern .
15 Mary , being over six feet tall , probably had a better view of the scene than her more traditionally built , runt-like Scottish companions , and she was enchanted by what she saw .
16 Agnes turned now and looked in the mirror again , and she really could n't believe what she saw .
17 Even so she managed to escape from the depths and walked the world , enchanted by what she saw .
18 The Member for Frome , Somerset , who was under other emotional stress , and could not ‘ take ’ what she saw , took her own life , rather than remember what photographs showed us .
19 She notes down the time and what she saw :
20 As she set her foot on the first one she turned involuntarily and gave one last look at the parade — and started uncomfortably at what she saw .
21 Breeze looked up , meaning to expostulate , but was silenced by what she saw in her sister 's face .
22 Although she gave no hint of it , she liked what she saw .
23 She pulled the curtain aside and choked with the shock of what she saw .
24 What she saw made Doctor Nell Anderson physically weak .
25 She picked up the lanthorn again to get a clearer view , and what she saw deeply etched into his right shoulder burned into her mind as hot metal had burned into his flesh .
26 At first she could meet his eyes , but what she saw confused her and she looked at the floor , colour creeping into her cheeks , reacting against the tenderness surprised in herself with a sense of shock that made her brusque and suspicious .
27 She picked up a hand mirror , but what she saw was not reassuring ; the harsh overhead light remorselessly picked out the tiny lines at the corners of her mouth , the discoloured skin around her eyes , the dry , wrinkled neck .
28 Had she merely stated that she did not wish to have a baby , she would have been considered failing in what she saw as her role in life .
29 Yet when she changed focus from the stomach , which was the first part of this new individual to catch her attention , to the face , which was the second , she immediately fixated on what she saw there .
30 God alone knows what she saw in that brute .
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