Example sentences of "had seen so " in BNC.

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1 He had seen so many people die .
2 Mother , she who had seen so much , wanted one last triumph ; one final casting coup .
3 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 .
4 She had seen so little of this grandchild .
5 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 .
6 It was the biggest house he had seen so far in the village .
7 This bird is distinctly different in character from those we had seen so far .
8 Francis did n't mind the screens : he had seen so many wonders in one day that the miniature moving pictures seemed almost ordinary .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 A year earlier , when the discovery dispute was at its height , he had been asked to comment on the documents he had seen so far .
13 From then on the fortunes of the Palace went into decline , these old walls which had seen so much of England 's history unfold , and from within which decisions were made which played a part in this history , were now in their last chapter .
14 That devil , born of isolation , he had seen so often destroy young men through exhaustion , frustration and despair .
15 It was not like some of the valleys they had seen so far , sparsely vegetated and arid .
16 It was good to put a name — totally meaningless though it was — to two faces he had seen so briefly .
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