Example sentences of "they had see " in BNC.
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| 1 | When parents or social workers went up to see us , obviously they had to see the staff , and the woman in charge was so nice , she had this big front — ‘ My girls , my girls ’ — it was totally a load of shit . |
| 2 | They had to see that they were provided with milk and butter and eggs and er venison and the rabbits and things for their food . |
| 3 | They had to see the house — what remained of it after Brunt had finished with it . |
| 4 | In a follow-up survey , the great majority rated it the best AIDS resource they had seen . |
| 5 | White ceiling , white curtains shifting in a breeze , a huge bed neither would admit they had seen and what it meant . |
| 6 | His mother looked nervously at them as they came in long after dark — she was obdurately against the recalling of ‘ the bad old times ’ and she would neither ask them what they had seen nor let them tell her . |
| 7 | East Germans in Prague said they had seen building work begin at the weekend to make it more effective . |
| 8 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 9 | A video showing the alleged IRA safe house at 17 Campbell Road , asked people viewing it to try to remember whether they had seen , inadvertedly had drinks with , or queued at shops with members of the IRA unit . |
| 10 | They had seen Miss Brady in the distance at Mass but they had never met her . |
| 11 | They had seen the clouds of exhaust fumes spewed by the Trabants and Wartburgs which had brought escaping East Germans to the West . |
| 12 | Fred and Sophy , though they were only two and three years younger , and though they had seen mamma in her coffin , seemed to themselves to be looking at some strange show . |
| 13 | What they had heard in the yard and what they had seen upon investigating — spilled crates they attributed to rutting cats — would not be revealed until morning . |
| 14 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |
| 15 | They had seen something , they had heard something , they had smelt something , but all those various sensations added up to nothing solid : nothing that was known , for certain . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , it was ‘ the most interesting ’ document they had seen . |
| 17 | ‘ O-oh ! ’ the youngsters groaned in disappointment , and went on discussing a blasphemous film they had seen . |
| 18 | ‘ When we asked how they knew we were coming , they would solemnly say that they had seen the Little People lighting candles in all the windows . |
| 19 | Beside it on a table burned a candle , the source of the light they had seen from the garden . |
| 20 | ‘ They had seen it all before . ’ |
| 21 | And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child . |
| 22 | I asked the villagers if they had seen him and Mr Natchet , the postman , said he had met him by the front gate when delivering letters about a month ago . |
| 23 | Asking Mr and Mrs Bloggs if they had seen the improvement in specific aspects of Fred 's work and then showing examples to back up statements made is one way of opening up discussion to avoid teacher domination of the meeting . |
| 24 | This time he had informed him of two witnesses that he had brought to Nottingham , who had subsequently identified him as the man they had seen in Cross Street at the time of the murder . |
| 25 | They had arrived home near the turnpike crossroads at 10.15pm , they had heard a shot at 10.25 , and they had seen William Tidbury and William Day leaving a Path near the woods at 10.50 , which was some five minutes after PC Golby had discovered the first body . |
| 26 | And the only young woman whom they had seen here was Catherine Marsden … |
| 27 | However , one group of Americans which had few social aspirations and lacked political prejudice was that of the young architects , less critical of the man than they were impressed by the buildings and the city he had created , and they returned to the United States inspired by what they had seen . |
| 28 | He and James Frawley had been their virtual creators for the television network and they had seen some excruciatingly successful years . |
| 29 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
| 30 | 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 . |