Example sentences of "had see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | With their thin faces and sharp teeth , they looked like the rats he had seen outside . |
| 3 | For she had seen little enough evidence of it in her life so far . |
| 4 | She remembered the dark movement she had seen just before the link had been severed . |
| 5 | But sometimes she had seen just a glimpse , a fragment , of an unknown person , deep and inward-looking , complex , full of contradictions . |
| 6 | As the sign for Piccadilly Circus flashed by I braved the warm draught on the platform again and on my way to the National Gallery I passed Trafalgar Square where I observed the pigeons strangely doing the same things I had seen just moments before , except of course rather less ‘ chicly ’ . |
| 7 | I had seen exactly such eyes , and such hands , very recently ! |
| 8 | One beautiful face in a shop brought into my mind an undraped statue I had seen somewhere and we blushed together . |
| 9 | She had almost touched it as she had turned , and had seen again the blood on the sawdust and the fear and the faces staring . |
| 10 | The houses were scattered around , low-slung , timbered , with a thatched roof and small porch ; it was a village scene similar to many Corbett had seen elsewhere except for the small dark people , their furtive looks and quiet ways . |
| 11 | Her face had a close , guarded look — one that Lily had seen already on Robert . |
| 12 | The Icelanders had seen precious little sun that summer and peeling noses were instant and plentiful . |
| 13 | Walter , the youngest boy , had the most distant relationship with his father ; he and Robert had been sent to boarding school and had seen even less of John than their sisters . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Posters advertising Knock pilgrimages that I had seen nearly always mentioned ‘ matchmaking ’ as part of the attractions . |
| 16 | Furthermore , Mr Farraday had made it clear that he planned to hold only very rarely the sort of large social occasions Darlington Hall had seen frequently in the past . |
| 17 | And the only young woman whom they had seen here was Catherine Marsden … |
| 18 | A third of its men were new recruits who had seen no fighting , almost another third had seen as little as the Colonel , while only the rest , like d'Alembord , had actually faced a French army in open battle . |
| 19 | He described the physique of the two men he had seen upright : Zack and the gunman . |
| 20 | He had seen so many people die . |
| 21 | Mother , she who had seen so much , wanted one last triumph ; one final casting coup . |
| 22 | Here he would suddenly stare straight into the camera lens in the way he had seen so many politicians do , and say , ‘ I challenge any red-blooded Englishman who really feels . |
| 23 | She had seen so little of this grandchild . |
| 24 | She had seen so many of the students set out from her door , awkward and anxious , and after a few weeks it was as if they had been studying there all their lives . |
| 25 | It was the biggest house he had seen so far in the village . |
| 26 | This bird is distinctly different in character from those we had seen so far . |
| 27 | Francis did n't mind the screens : he had seen so many wonders in one day that the miniature moving pictures seemed almost ordinary . |
| 28 | As the weeks progressed , the only thing which troubled her was that her new friends had seen so much more of the world than she had . |
| 29 | He quickened his flight as he saw ahead in the far distance , perhaps twenty miles on , the blue rising of real hills — ground higher than any he had seen so far . |
| 30 | Much of what he had seen so far confirmed the assessment of the Imperial survey — that the stage of development Tarvaras had reached was equivalent to that which was thought to have existed during the Terran medieval period . |