Example sentences of "we had see " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I remember the days , ’ he recalls with an air of maturity which seems strangely at odds with his T-shirt and shorts , ‘ I remember the days at Virgin when we had to see three people in the morning and three people in the afternoon , straight off the street . |
| 2 | Of course , from this end , we had to see England in all their matches and so a local production company was hired for the day — and I mean local . |
| 3 | ‘ Now you 're one of our little band we had to see you . |
| 4 | We had to see what happened to these railways er is more people going to er to go by train , or are less going to go . |
| 5 | No one present would have disputed that but the feeling was that all we had seen was the closing of one chapter of a story in which there is much more to come . |
| 6 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 7 | We would spend the afternoon re-enacting in the parking lot behind the apartment what we had seen in the morning on the screen . |
| 8 | Tromsø had no more snow than we had seen in the autumn , but it was colder . |
| 9 | The next day the Lapp arrived for his drink , but we had seen no evidence of a trail . |
| 10 | Our senses may inform us that any single whole is equal to all its parts ; but not that all wholes in the world are so , unless we could suppose , that we had seen or felt them all . |
| 11 | When we came out of the Clerecia , after dipping hands in the holy water stoup and placing a drop on each other 's brows , as we had seen the novios and novias do ( the boy on entering a church would dip his hand in the water and transfer a drop to his fiancée 's fingertip so that they could cross themselves in unison ) , we would go into La Casa de las Conchas next to the Clerecia , with elaborate wrought-iron window-grilles and its tranquil courtyard , and sit there quietly for a while , thinking of the next poem , or of the one we were working on . |
| 12 | In order for the vast pressure vessel ( the one we had seen being manufactured in France ) to negotiate the narrow village streets , it was necessary for the Board to buy up the frontages of over thirty houses . |
| 13 | And they were led — incredulity forced us to ask each other later if we had seen it — these legions of men in full battledress were led by a lone soldier in a forage cap sitting atop a T-62 tank , playing a flute . |
| 14 | The first creature we had seen , a small turtle , was sunning itself on a rock as we climbed into a canoe and paddled and drifted round the green-speared edge of the lake . |
| 15 | At the Nanaimo Hotel after the coal-mine show , two of our engineers who shared a room down the hall knocked on our door one evening just before dusk to ask if we had seen the strange behaviour of the sea-gulls flying outside our hotel room windows , which faced the sea . |
| 16 | as abruptly as if we had seen a ghost . |
| 17 | We had seen nothing of Coventry nor were we due to . |
| 18 | I have never met anyone who heard that broadcast , but the Indian superintendent and I felt we had seen the job through to the end . |
| 19 | I felt embarrassed : clearly we had seen more of Flora at this time than I remembered . |
| 20 | Descending from the mountains , we had seen patches of pale , rasping grass ; pink oleanders in dry stream beds ; black , low , nomads ' tents . |
| 21 | ( Mindful of what we had seen from the office , we volunteered as witnesses to the Board of Enquiry . ) |
| 22 | It was just the sort of thing we had seen on Starsky and Hutch . |
| 23 | From the photograph of the crash we had seen that the demolished house was on the corner of a small lane , and although the house had been rebuilt , when we arrived at the place the position was easily identified . |
| 24 | Even before we had left the environs of Mount Pleasant airport , we had seen upland geese grazing unconcernedly alongside the runway , and we crossed creeks where small parties of speckled teal were swimming . |
| 25 | This bird is distinctly different in character from those we had seen so far . |
| 26 | Remembering that a couple of kilometres back we had seen a huge moose lumbering across the road , I peered fearfully through a slit in my tent to see this massive reindeer with bloodshot eyes and antlers that appeared to be three metres across . |
| 27 | By lunch we had seen an all-run six for Mike Atherton . |
| 28 | ‘ The week before we had noticed that the shutters were open at the tower ( no more picnics ) and we had seen the car . |
| 29 | we had seen the cordon as a handrail ; |
| 30 | Perhaps symbolic is the typical picket line of today ; people in high spirits shouting slogans and singing to the beat of a salsa band as they march defiantly under the eyes of the police contrast with the solemn processions of strikers we had seen in the 1940s , walking through the streets in silence and in proper order , as if to create any disturbance was a mark of poor breeding . |