Example sentences of "that [pers pn] had see a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chesarynth felt conspicuous ; people around were staring at them , but it was the first time in her weary day 's travel that she had seen a box and it called to the echoes of firesong that the one on the Moon had left in her mind . |
| 2 | A spokeswoman for the ministry said that it had seen a draft of the report earlier in the year and had felt that it had made ‘ inappropriate use ’ of the generalised derived limits . |
| 3 | One day , Jimmy Coutts cycled in to work ( he ‘ lived out ’ with his wife and young family in a village near Cambridge ) , and said that he had seen a telegraph boy delivering a telegram at a house opposite his , where he knew the wife of one of the air crew officers at Oakington lived . |
| 4 | At his trial in December , Eamonn Melaugh , a prominent Derry republican , testified that he had seen a demonstrator struck in the groin . |
| 5 | The warrior Wottolen protested in vain to Looking Glass that he had seen a vision of disaster at this place . |
| 6 | Dr Gerard fought back , by saying that he had seen a letter from Warburton to the printer , complaining that one half of Scotland 's clergy were fanatics , and the other half were infidels , but Johnson still gainsaid him ; Warburton , he believed , wrote as he spoke — without thinking ; ‘ Sir , the very worst way of being intimate , is by scribbling . ’ |
| 7 | They encountered no opposition though Ranulf maintained that he had seen a rider watching them as they crossed the bridge at Dalmeny . |