Example sentences of "she [vb past] see a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So intent was she on making a good impression , she failed to see a crane coming towards her . |
| 2 | When Psyche lighted the lamp , she expected to see a beast , but she saw a god . |
| 3 | I think she said she 'd seen a badger as well . |
| 4 | Although she 'd seen a couple of nice men recently , when it came to the heavy breathing Miranda found that she did n't want to be touched intimately by anyone she did n't know well . |
| 5 | There was no denying the fact that she 'd looked terrible , just then.As if she 'd seen a ghost , he thought uneasily . |
| 6 | I 've been trying to get hold of you for the past two hours ! ’ the man exclaimed harshly as he stared down at Laura , who was gazing back at him as though she 'd seen a ghost . |
| 7 | Less than an hour before Anna was attacked another council employee phoned Gloucester police to say she 'd seen a man hanging around the docks all day acting suspiciously . |
| 8 | But Maggie had heard him draw notes out of it which rent the air with their sadness , and through his music she 'd seen a side of him he 'd kept hidden from the world . |
| 9 | On that morning Mrs. Millings was late because she 'd seen a body in the Thames while crossing Southwark Bridge . |
| 10 | She said she 'd seen a spaceship and it had frightened her . ’ |
| 11 | Shannon had never been able to believe that ; as a child she 'd seen a photograph of her father , and even then she 'd been stunned to silence by his incredible good looks . |
| 12 | HER ROYAL HIGHNESS , Princess Margaret honoured the Queen 's Hotel in Leeds , by choosing to stay at the hotel , when a patron of the Northern Ballet , she came to see a performance of Swan Lake at Leeds Grand Theatre . |
| 13 | But Ruth 's eye was drawn back to the great tower of rock , and on the very top , high above , she seemed to see a jut of walls and pinnacles , glimmering like hard edges of light . |
| 14 | Startled , she turned to see a man with a gun walking out of the folly and then , to her relief , a dog at his heels . |
| 15 | He said he did n't mean to worry her but her mother did look as if she needed to see a doctor . |
| 16 | Keeping her eyes on Robert as he began to talk to Dawn , she waited to see a change of expression on Dawn 's face , then , suddenly , her view was blotted out by a tall figure handing her a glass of wine . |
| 17 | She had seen a horror film once about an archaeologist in Egypt . |
| 18 | She had seen a scene like that once , in a film about a prison island where convicts were dumped and left to fend fur themselves . |
| 19 | On other pages , she had seen a village of huts set in the lee of a bluff , where mothers — Italian mothers with babies on their laps — were sitting in the sun on chairs , just like at home . |
| 20 | She had seen a massacre . |
| 21 | And when she had seen a man 's shape she had thought for one wild moment that Mervyn or even John had called with flowers . |
| 22 | An hour or so ago , she had seen a stone of the right size and shape lying on the edge of a garden , and had put it into her pocket . |
| 23 | She had seen a phone in the big hall they called the vestibule . |
| 24 | She had said , her eyes glittering with simulated enthusiasm , that she could hardly wait to get to her cottage , and Betty had said wistfully that it seemed like years since she had seen a blade of grass ( which was silly in itself , because of what else were the lawns of Hyde Park composed ? ) ; so Lydia , unhinged with the shock of bereavement , and further undone by wine , had said she could come too . |
| 25 | She had seen a lot of Japanese kaiju eiga flatties as a child thanks to a quirk of her father 's , and had now been able to draw on her memories of them . |
| 26 | One day , she had seen a car screech to a stop and several men overpower a pedestrian and force him into their vehicle ; from a distance she had smelled the smoke of bonfires burning blacklisted books ; she had glimpsed the outline of a human body floating in the dark waters of the canal . |
| 27 | She had seen a leaflet about the YCs and thought that this would provide a good way of getting to know people . |
| 28 | Chesarynth felt conspicuous ; people around were staring at them , but it was the first time in her weary day 's travel that she had seen a box and it called to the echoes of firesong that the one on the Moon had left in her mind . |
| 29 | She was sure she had seen a hand in the drawer , a hand with little pink nails and a silver ring on one finger . |
| 30 | She had seen a woman ride from the dark woods , screaming her grief , her clay-streaked hair streaming ; the woman had ridden around the pyre . |