Example sentences of "she saw [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was immobile , cruelly transfixed , but in the very moment of immobility she saw most clearly a time when such moments need not be . |
| 2 | She saw again John lighting the red candles on the Christmas tree , with wide-eyed two-year-old Jeremy gazing with wonder at each new flame . |
| 3 | Her friend 's small figure rose before her , and she saw again those vivid blue eyes , the broad forehead , and the gallant tilt of the pointed chin . |
| 4 | She saw again the severed vessels , sticking like corrugated pipes through the clotted blood . |
| 5 | She saw again the words on the back of the snapshot : Baby Donna , born April 10th . |
| 6 | My other half also told me that she saw somewhere ( I ca nt remember ) on the weekend that Leeds have offered 1Million for Bardsley ( QPR ) . |
| 7 | And she saw instantly that they were taken in Allen 's Manhattan apartment . |
| 8 | When Susan Einzig was appointed to the illustration department in 1946 she saw instantly how destructive Minton 's influence could be , for the drawback of his teaching was that it did little to encourage the discovery of a personal style . |
| 9 | With as much dignity as she could muster Sophie stood up , and as he came from behind his desk to open the door she saw thankfully that there was no one in the surgery . |
| 10 | Following the storeman inside , staring round blankly , she saw yet more cartons , and a pile of something , crates possibly , apparently concealed under a tarpaulin . |
| 11 | She saw immediately that she had said the wrong thing . |
| 12 | She avoided conversation with the other passengers , who , she saw immediately , were in commerce and not the sort of people she usually mixed with . |
| 13 | In the antique mirror with its frame of carved shells she saw both their faces distorted by a defect in the glass ; the brown and green of Stella 's huge luminous eyes smeared like wet paint into the deep clefts between nostrils and mouth ; her own wide brow bulging like that of a hydrocephalic child . |
| 14 | She was annoyed with herself since she knew after all that babies were carried inside , and once she 'd heard the news she saw clearly the difference in Belle Maman 's appearance . |
| 15 | She risked standing , poised to duck back under the slab of rock if she saw even the shadow of a movement . |
| 16 | She saw even less of Liz and Esther . |
| 17 | She saw how bloodied it was , but she saw also that it was still essentially whole . |
| 18 | Of João , she saw little . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She looked in shop windows and willed herself to think of the days when she would be able to afford clothes like she saw there . |
| 21 | Her body went as taut as a bowstring , and when she opened her eyes and looked into his face she saw there awestricken astonishment . |
| 22 | She had no idea how long she stayed there , simply gazing into the beautiful sea-blue eyes which had become more important than life itself to her , but everything she saw there somehow made all of her doubts , all of her fears just slide away , leaving her lighter of heart than she could ever remember being . |
| 23 | Lady Usk was studying her face , as if she saw there more than she spoke of . |
| 24 | She jerked back , surprised by the anger on his face , then reassured by the apology she saw there . |
| 25 | This little side-play caused Peggy to stop and wonder , and it also gave Lizzie the opportunity to try to bring a smile to her daughter 's face and perhaps ease the tension she saw there . |
| 26 | Therese clutched it , moved closer , stared bravely up into his face and faltered at the total contemptuous sneering disdain she saw there . |
| 27 | His grey eyes met hers and she was forced to smile at the gleam of amusement she saw there . |
| 28 | He did n't answer , his silence becoming unnerving , and when she examined his features she was dismayed by the bleakness she saw there ; then , with almost cold deliberation , he turned away and sat on the edge of the bed with his back to her . |
| 29 | The deliberate mockery had faded from his eyes , and the raw darkness she saw there made her stomach clench in anguish . |
| 30 | What she saw there left her cold . |