Example sentences of "she [vb past] see [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A baby was the last thing she expected to see in the servants ' quarters , especially as Rosa looked far beyond her child-bearing years . |
| 2 | She rang the number she 'd seen on the underground and went to the address they told her . |
| 3 | Nancy was standing in the middle of the yard with her hands to her face , shouting about a black bogey she 'd seen at the window of the hayloft . |
| 4 | She recognized all the people she 'd seen at the dinner table in the Llandogger Trow and at the Frolic . |
| 5 | Watching , Jess was reminded of a pack of alley cats she 'd seen at the rear of Samson 's smithy one night . |
| 6 | After the initial wave of guilty surprise , finding that the beautiful girl she 'd seen at the market had been Roman 's younger sister , she 'd taken an immediate liking to Anneliese . |
| 7 | Dreadful destruction and carnage was everywhere , reminding Maggie of pictures she 'd seen of the Great War . |
| 8 | It unfolded from a slim oblong into a sheet-sized square that flapped and fought in the wind and did n't bear much resemblance to what she 'd seen of the City so far . |
| 9 | She loved Hyde Park because it was the nearest thing she 'd seen to the country side since she had arrived in the capital . |
| 10 | Then she thought about those other long low huts she 'd seen in the fenced-off meadow beyond St Michael and All Angels . |
| 11 | Being cradled against her mother 's soft warm body , Dot tried to feel like a baby , to remember what she had seen through the crack in the double doors as Gloria had cradled Baby against her while the nurses gathered round with protective outstretched arms . |
| 12 | Some were recognisably of those she had seen through the windows . |
| 13 | She had seen through the glass booth how flustered I was . |
| 14 | Increasingly she felt , without putting it into so many words , that all she wanted was to read , to paint , and to make her father into that person she had seen with the Princesse : a light , carefree , witty , happy Jacob . |
| 15 | One of the men she recognised as someone she had seen on the Prosecution side in a Belfast court during trials for terrorist offences . |
| 16 | To my utter surprise , Arune went home after one evenings viewing and produced the V-neck sweater with patterning that she had seen on the Video ! |
| 17 | Something came to her , a graffito she had seen on the wall of a burned-out Josephite temple in Denver , back when she was with the girlie gangcult . |
| 18 | In another , she was a small speck overwhelmed by a vast and writhing darkness that reminded her of nothing so much as pictures she had seen on the cover of Tcherkassoff 's album Black Holes , and Other Singularities . |
| 19 | Among them was the one she had seen on the Jonquil . |
| 20 | Yesterday she had gone to the dingy little newsagent at the corner of the street to pay the paper bill , and to buy Matey a writing pad and envelopes , when she had seen on the counter a pile of postcards depicting society beauties . |
| 21 | There lingered perhaps an echo of grimness , and an echo of something else : an expression she had seen on the faces of men who have just loaded ship for a voyage . |
| 22 | She let Ferdinando teach her how to judge an aubergine ripe and a chicken fresh and then she copied those older women she had seen for the rest . |
| 23 | The older woman had n't bothered to hide her dismay at what she had seen as the loss of her precious older son . |
| 24 | He looked like a man she had seen about the village who drove a green truck , but the name she associated in her mind with the monk-robed man was that of an almost universally adored God . |
| 25 | It was the policewoman she had seen in the police station . |
| 26 | Gedanken suddenly remembered the roll of rubber sheeting — the one she had seen in the corner of the laboratory . |
| 27 | She included in her discontent each miscarriage of her own generosity , but nothing was so bad as what she had seen in the farmyard . |
| 28 | He sighed heavily , and Belinda was about to ask what was wrong — after all , they were still friends , in spite of what she had seen in the garden tonight , and her revelation of feeling should n't dictate this new reticence — when he spoke at last . |
| 29 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
| 30 | More images whirled through Loretta 's head — the figure she had seen in the bed , a body being dragged to the door , herself in handcuffs waiting to board the ferry . |