Example sentences of "she saw [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She gave him her best smile , liking what she saw under the porch lantern . |
| 2 | During the case of the nine children who were taken into care in February 1991 , one long-standing member of the Panel resigned because of what she saw as the deterioration in the Children 's Panel Hearing system in Orkney since the suspension of Mrs Kemp . |
| 3 | She saw to the side of one of the houses the faded sign for Morgan and family , boot and shoemakers , fastened over what appeared to be little better than a shed . |
| 4 | My mother had more stories of India than the war : my mother dancing with young men at the club , the cobra she saw on the veranda , the retired doctor in the Indian army who sent her his travelling rug before he died . |
| 5 | When she arrived at the bus station she saw on the wall behind her bold , splashy writing in foreign characters , Arabic maybe or Urdu , and small , disordered scribbles around the glass faces of the timetables , which , although an irritation , caused Rita no real pain . |
| 6 | As patron of the Macintyre organisation the Duchess of York has worked closely with the mentally disabled for some years , but even she was surprised ; delighted with what she saw on the opening night . |
| 7 | When Benny opened them she saw on the bed a thick navy skirt , a Fair Isle jumper in navy and red . |
| 8 | The heron profile that she saw through the grille . |
| 9 | She stared at him a moment , her eyes narrowed slightly , as if she saw through the flesh to the bone itself , and while he met her staring eyes unflinchingly , something in the depths of him squirmed and tried to break away . |
| 10 | Anyway she was that bad , anyone sa who she saw plus the doctor , you know oh he said , oh no ! |
| 11 | And the hostility she saw in the woman 's eyes made her shudder inwardly . |
| 12 | She saw by the look on his face that he was half afraid of her . |
| 13 | It was a quarter past five , she saw from the clock on Bank Station . |
| 14 | Ruth did not have to finish what she had begun to say ; she saw from the look in their eyes that they understood her . |