Example sentences of "she [vb past] see them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds of flowers she could n't name , she 'd seen them in her grandmother 's garden , in her mother 's garden , in neglected gardens all over . |
| 2 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 3 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 4 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 5 | She had seen them on their expensive horses , swooping across country , confident in the saddle . |
| 6 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |
| 7 | The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat . |
| 8 | She had seen them around the hotel for the last five days . |