Example sentences of "she [verb] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The county 's new minerals plan will come under scrutiny and she wants to see more public involvement in the CPRW 's work . |
| 2 | She has seen worse , I dare say , these many months . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ In a word — fantastic ! ’ she replied , and would have trotted out all she 'd seen again , had not a waiter come along and placed a menu in her hands . |
| 4 | She was lifting her hand to knock again when the door was flung open and she was confronted by the woman she 'd seen outside who stared at her defiantly , her painted face incongruous against the fall of grimy hair over her shoulders . |
| 5 | ‘ The doctor will be here soon , and I 'm sure — ’ She turned as the door behind her opened , and the curly-haired doctor she 'd seen briefly in the dining-room came softly towards the bed . |
| 6 | Kate was n't particularly fanciful , but Dara reminded her of a black panther she 'd seen once in a zoo . |
| 7 | She 'd seen enough from the taxi to tell that every house , cottage , shop and inn was simply full of character , each different but still in the traditional Cotswold style she was beginning to recognise . |
| 8 | It had been so long since she 'd seen so many people all at once . |
| 9 | He put on a soppy-dog look that she 'd seen before . |
| 10 | A strong , dark , classical face , with a cleft chin and that peculiarly haunting quality she 'd seen only in the paintings of old masters . |
| 11 | The note had made her giggle and she 'd seen absolutely no harm in going . |
| 12 | Sylvie started to chat about films she 'd seen recently . |
| 13 | He was the sort of man she 'd seen far too much of when she 'd worked in Milan for International Models . |
| 14 | Quick as a flash , she lunged inside the box for the sheet of paper which she 'd seen there . |
| 15 | For just an instant she seemed to see right into his eyes , past the protective barrier that he instinctively put up against intruders . |
| 16 | Aghast , incredulous , she craned to see more clearly if this was indeed her own mad forebear toying there inside her thought ; and he turned to leer at her . |
| 17 | It was about this time she began seeing more and more of Laurence Wheldon … |
| 18 | The integration of the two voices which she calls for , leaves men with much further to go than women , who she seems to see as already ‘ bilingual ’ in moral judgements to some extent ( Auerbach et al . |
| 19 | Yeah , and she did see rather surprised that I 'd finished one wall ! |
| 20 | Belinda had stumbled upon him one day several months ago when he was alone in a little-used store-room at the far end of the ward , and she had seen immediately that he was near to breaking down . |
| 21 | For she had seen little enough evidence of it in her life so far . |
| 22 | She remembered the dark movement she had seen just before the link had been severed . |
| 23 | But sometimes she had seen just a glimpse , a fragment , of an unknown person , deep and inward-looking , complex , full of contradictions . |
| 24 | Here , at close quarters , the fitful , elusive silver congealed into the turgid brown flood she had seen upriver , a silent surge of water looking almost solid in its power , sweeping along leaves and branches and roots and swathes of weed in its eddies , gnawing away loose red layers of the soil along this near bank , and eating at the muddy rim of the path . |
| 25 | In her years in the brothels in Dublin , she had seen far too many girls with their bodies twisted and scarred by the constricting corsets . |
| 26 | She had seen enough . |
| 27 | She had seen enough and was ready to go . |
| 28 | She could n't see Miguelito from here , but she had seen enough . |
| 29 | Then , larger than life , so vivid she might almost have reached out and touched herself , there she was , transformed , hardly recognizable : teeth bared in a grin of manic glee , her eyes white-hot and blazing like a berserk android in a film she had seen once . |
| 30 | She still believed this but , standing there in that dismal , chilly corridor , a picture came into her head : it was of a baby she had seen once , being wheeled in a pushchair down the prom . |