Example sentences of "see [noun] [prep] her [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred and Sophy , though they were only two and three years younger , and though they had seen mamma in her coffin , seemed to themselves to be looking at some strange show . |
| 2 | I have seen snapshots of her arms extending cigarette lighters , her lips painted seamlessly in China red matt , each eyebrow plucked and lined with one rich stroke of a black pencil , false lashes on her eyes , ‘ twinkle ’ blue kohl beneath and drawn at a tilt . |
| 3 | He thought he understood now why he had seen tears on her cheeks . |
| 4 | That was the only time Patrick had seen tears in her eyes , when the vicar had said a prayer ‘ for those whom we love but see no longer ’ . |
| 5 | I paid the fourpence for two coffees , and after I had seen Clare to her train back home , went to St Andrew 's to make a few notes of plans to defend myself , for I knew it would not be long before I faced a new ‘ trial ’ — by the hospital 's board of governors . |
| 6 | All right , he is very busy , one could understand a degree of impatience ; but this girl is in a bad way , she has taken a knife to her room , she sees blood before her eyes . |
| 7 | He could see mischief in her eyes . |
| 8 | Once she 's moving , clumsiness or inability to see things in her path . |
| 9 | ‘ Stay where you are , Judy ! ’ she cried , as she saw Judy on her hands and knees about to crawl under the wire to Mandy 's rescue . |
| 10 | The conductor saw Donna to her seat and ensured she was comfortable . |
| 11 | Then she coughed , and I saw fear in her face . |
| 12 | As one of the torches suddenly flared he saw blood on her face , hair and shoulders . |
| 13 | He looked up and saw Minerva at her cello , and Alexia , young and alive again , in the wings . |
| 14 | And after me ? — she saw reflections of her milling thoughts : truncated spurs of alien blue . |
| 15 | Now he saw anger in her eyes and a faint flush of colour in her cheeks . |
| 16 | Again she saw Gazzer in her mind , laughing with Bella , clowning around , never taking anything seriously and she knew that she could never find the right words to convince Bella that he was dangerous . |
| 17 | But for the first time , he saw doubt in her eyes . |
| 18 | I saw pain in her face , and felt it rush up my arm . |
| 19 | For the first time in her married life she saw pain in her husband 's eyes , as though she had plunged a knife into his body . |
| 20 | Sylvia had started to hallucinate , seeing creepy-crawlies on her bed , and the houseman had to come and sort her out . |
| 21 | Undaunted , Marr and Morrissey went to see Shaw at her home and plied her with spiel . |
| 22 | It was n't much read until they rediscovered it — Virginia Woolf knew it , she adduced it as an image of the essential androgyny of the creative mind — but the new feminists see Melusina in her bath as a symbol of self-sufficient female sexuality needing no poor males . |
| 23 | Sometimes when I see Panna with her baby I wish I was a woman and had a husband and a child . |