Example sentences of "had see they " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I wish Marie and Annie had seen them lights . |
| 2 | The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat . |
| 3 | The only occasions on which I had seen them in operation they had failed lamentably . |
| 4 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 5 | I WAS really only a bystander in the tragedy of young Mr and Mrs McLeod ; it was not really my business , although it could be said that I had known them both — had seen them about — for most of their lives . |
| 6 | The man standing by my side said that he had seen them behind the terminal . |
| 7 | No one had seen them steal except myself , but they went on running nonetheless . |
| 8 | Some men had books which dealt with events in which Zuwaya had played some part , and others had seen them . |
| 9 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 10 | He himself had seen them when he used to bring olives to the village so that oil could be made from them . |
| 11 | Members were pleased when constituents said that they had seen them on the box , and only one Member had received complaints that he had not been seen . |
| 12 | ‘ I had seen them live and thought that they had an energy . |
| 13 | I had seen them in Kano clutching their swords as they slept in shop doorways where they were employed as night-watchmen . |
| 14 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 15 | She had seen them on their expensive horses , swooping across country , confident in the saddle . |
| 16 | For the last few days she had seen them , not as her parents but as two hating individuals carrying on a private war behind screens . |
| 17 | Soldiers had parachuted across , but mortar fire had seen them off . |
| 18 | The skirmishers in the fields had seen them now , and the French had started to withdraw , firing occasionally , but for the most part just running as fast as they could , to obtain cover amidst the village buildings . |
| 19 | He had seen them take cover from the beginnings of the storm in the very same darkness in which the two men were waiting . |
| 20 | Alice never spoke of him except casually but on the few occasions , like last night 's dinner party , when she had seen them together they seemed to have the intuitive mutual awareness , an instinctive response to the other 's needs , more typical of a long-standing successful marriage than of an apparently casual fraternal relationship . |
| 21 | The Hurricanes were to land at Hal Far aerodrome and I circled that aerodrome until I had seen them all land safely . |
| 22 | He could describe the men only as he had seen them , masked , in shapeless tracksuits . |
| 23 | ‘ She had seen them arm in arm one day , several years ago , ’ Jean says . |
| 24 | However , the evidence of the fireman who was on the footplate of the engine that was hauling the express disproved the allegations of the railway company , for he had seen them together on the train after it had arrived at Birmingham New Street Station around 2.30 when the children had waved at him . |
| 25 | She had heard of humans , of course , and had seen them walking about sometimes . |
| 26 | The Marshal had seen them as they stood gossiping in the street at an equal distance between the two buildings so as to keep their doors in view , but it would be a waste of time trying to get her to admit it . |
| 27 | This is the second skirmish in a brief cross-border raid for Edinburgh 's Joyriders ( the previous evening had seen them on the charity gig trail with Mega City Four in Tufnell Park ) , out to bludgeon the capital 's callow youth into line with their handsomely appointed tuff-pop manifesto . |
| 28 | He had seen them all before . |
| 29 | Richard had seen them too . |
| 30 | He had seen them through the gates . |