Example sentences of "[coord] she saw the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the summer , a beautiful girl passed , and she saw the tall weed , and plucked it and put it in her dress , where it blushed a glorious red and died content ; the weed on the bank saw it die , and laughed , and reflected that it would live till the next year . |
| 2 | He turned his head a little and she saw the blue glass flowering from his skull , its silken stamens drooping elegantly as he moved . |
| 3 | Then her vision cleared and she saw the familiar objects , the Aga and the gas stove with the nearby working surfaces , the table of polished oak in the middle of the room with its four elegantly crafted chairs , and at the far end Alice 's office with the walls covered with bookshelves and her desk piled with proofs . |
| 4 | Since the baby 's birth and its mother 's death her whole view of life seemed to have changed abruptly , as though someone had shaken a giant kaleidoscope and she saw the whole world and herself in a different light . |
| 5 | She sat down beside him , instinctively putting her arm out to support him , but he jerked forward with a sharp gasp , and she saw the brown lines of dried blood across the back of his shirt . |
| 6 | And she saw the big staircases leading up to the libraries and the lecture halls . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's a relief , ’ he said , but he did n't sound relieved and she saw the sombre look in his eyes deepen . |
| 8 | ‘ Seven hundred years of British rule , ’ Kevin declared , and she saw the tight line of his mouth . |
| 9 | Guy 's response was calmly matter-of-fact , but she saw the tense concern in his eyes . |
| 10 | But she saw the intellectual side of Ken as well . |