Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] had [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I replied cautiously , acutely aware that I had n't seen Spock and Kirk do their thing for years and that I 'd only seen one episode of the new series .
2 The fact that she had n't seen Guy since made the episode in the Caribbean seem dreamlike — or nightmarish , she amended bitterly .
3 A woman called Charlotte Culham gave evidence that she had often seen Mrs Dyer with small children , and also seen her with packages that resembled the bodies of small children .
4 It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social
5 And at the foot of the iron structure was a high steel fender , suggesting from its dull surface that it had never seen emery paper since the day it left the foundry .
6 Arthur watched him , pulled in his stomach , listened to the loudspeaker to hear how the performing dog was doing , and thought seriously enough that he had n't seen Fred so exhilarated since last August at Blackpool .
7 I later learned that he had n't seen Mr Rafter at all , but had hot-footed it back to Mullingar .
8 Well he does n't know where I live at the but it came up in court that he was going to take me to court for access , making it out as though it was my fault that he had n't seen Ricky , I was stopping him from seeing Ricky when it 's his own fault .
9 Not that he had even seen Benin , hidden behind the opaque dark windows in the back of the Mercedes .
10 It is because of this , as well as her own personal charisma and dedication to a cause she really cares about , that Mrs Gellatly 's won stall is a runaway success ( I use the word ‘ runaway ’ deliberately because of the remark by an observant onlooker that he had yet to see Mrs Gellatly walk , and I was immediately , and I think aptly , reminded of the hymn ‘ Take my feet and make them swift and beautiful for Thee ’ ) .
11 It occurred to him as he walked that he had not seen Taheb since their visit to the palace compound .
12 It had been the first time that he had really seen Sara in tears .
13 On visiting the Landes Park flock , much publicised by the Tesco supermarket advertisements featuring Dudley Moore , David Whiting , on behalf of CIWF , commented that he had never seen chickens kept in better conditions .
14 Inside the hall of the house in Maryon Park Gardens , a tearful , frightened little man was explaining that his name was Bill Pitkin , that he was not Terry Place , that he had never seen Terry Place nor ever heard of him .
15 Mungo reflected that he had never seen Emily so happy .
16 ‘ I have never seen Soho on the screen , ’ wrote Ernest Betts in 1928 and then he added that he had never seen Southend , Birmingham , Chelsea , Bloomsbury , or London suburbia either .
17 Back in his own home , it seemed incredible to George that he had actually seen Tamar 's attacker at Thorsbury , and yet he was certain that the groom was the same man .
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