Example sentences of "she saw [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | From the main road she saw outside No. 43 gate a slight drooping figure . |
2 | She saw above her a map of the Tyne and Wear Metro , not to mention information about trains round Whitby , Northallerton and Darlington . |
3 | She gave him her best smile , liking what she saw under the porch lantern . |
4 | What she saw under the lights was a boat , a big one in too small a space . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | The painting was agreed to by Luce in part to recompense for what she saw as her misjudgment of her dead friend . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Their evenings were frequently marred by rows , started by Constance in response to what she saw as slights on Nicky 's part . |
11 | She also felt that age 6 was too early to make what she saw as a drastic decision — once out of mainstream education she felt he would be unlikely to get back . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Elizabeth Blackwell , the pioneer woman doctor , in The Human Element in Sex ( 1885 ) , rejected Acton 's denial of female sexuality , which she saw as an ‘ immense spiritual force of attraction … |
14 | A physiotherapist talked , for instance , of what she saw as the consequences of a young person complying or not with recommended regimes : |
15 | Another outlined what she saw as the consequences : |
16 | There was no competition here , no assumed superiority on the part of another to make her uneasy or defensive , only what she saw as shared experience , delightful in retrospect . |
17 | In 1918 she became the chief woman officer of the Labour party , in which role she was particularly active in pressing for improved working-class housing estates to include community centres with nurseries , restaurants , libraries , concert halls , and home-help services , all of which she saw as not merely desirable in themselves but essential for the emancipation of working-class housewives . |
18 | In Butler 's case this led to a radical campaign against the Contagious Diseases ( CD ) Acts of the 1860s ( under which prostitutes were subject to compulsory medical inspection and detained if found to have venereal disease ) , which she saw as part of the double moral standard oppressing all women and debasing family life . |
19 | She discussed in this context who she saw as the twentieth century 's two most influential analysts of theatre : Brecht and Antonin Artaud . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | Midge protested at what she saw as bureaucratic interference in what should have been a private grief . |
22 | He went out of the chapel and saw the Mother Superior , Sister Maria Palmer , mopping the floor , a menial task designed to remind herself of what she saw as her greatest weakness : the sin of pride . |
23 | Friends and colleagues say she was motivated by what she saw as cruelty in the meat trade . |
24 | Although a lifelong Labour voter , influenced by the poverty she saw as a teacher , Mrs Hughes spoke of how Mrs Thatcher ‘ gave me a lovely tour of No 10 and I thought she was such a nice person ’ . |
25 | She said , ‘ What 's this ? ’ it did n't matter to her what it was — a piece of stone in the hearth — just something to talk about — an embarrassed need for words to cover what she saw as his rejection . |
26 | Anne Besant , as a socialist member of the London School Board in the 1880s , was acutely distressed by the problems she saw of ‘ gaunt hunger-pinched men and women … decent folk who did n't want to keep their children ignorant , but sometimes there were no boots , sometimes there was a baby to feed , sometimes there were no food . ’ |
27 | Hopefully it would be the last she saw of her lesbian lover . |
28 | The more she saw of the Redmonds the more she liked them , particularly Sarah 's grandmother . |
29 | The more she saw of Alain 's mother and the more she breathed in the atmosphere of this house , the more she felt outside it all , an intruder who was here to rock the peace of the place , to alter their lives . |
30 | And then he was gone down the stairs , running lightly , for all his limp , and the last which she saw of him was the sandy-blond head before he turned the corner of the first landing . |