Example sentences of "had see [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Half an hour after Rachaela had seen Ruth into the house , Emma 's knock sounded on the door . |
| 2 | Colin Wallace , who had seen Lewis on the day he vanished , was charged with murder . |
| 3 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 4 | She stood where she had seen Scathach in the story , his face now indistinguishable from the young man with whom she travelled . |
| 5 | He told them that none of the servants had seen Putt since the forest ‘ accident ’ . |
| 6 | From the amount of iron signals and other factors it would soon be possible to determine if the land had seen habitation in the past . |
| 7 | But perhaps she had seen others at the tree tops , for she clattered her talons violently on the top of her cage , crashed down on to its concrete floor , her wings smashing against the branch that projected across her cage , and then lunged forward at the door of her cage , driven by an impulse that spoke of a terrible longing to be free . |
| 8 | He went into the downstairs room where he had seen Marcus through the window . |
| 9 | Midge had seen Patrick in the crowd . |
| 10 | He had seen service in the Boer War and the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 in China before service on the Royal Yacht during King Edward VII 's reign . |
| 11 | Previous minorities had seen squabbles over the distribution of power , but no young king had ever been deposed . |
| 12 | Previous minorities had seen squabbles over the distribution of power , but no young king had ever been deposed . |
| 13 | One woman was prepared to swear she had seen Sellotape on the back of Pike 's neck . |
| 14 | Well , she supposed that figured ; after all , she had seen Luke with the children at the sailing club , again revealing that other side of his nature which did n't extend to her … |
| 15 | And in the Stop Hinkley Centre , Jill Sutcliffe , an experienced campaigner who had seen Luxulyan from the gantry head , was ready to encourage and advise the uncertain before they took the stage in front of the cold , piercing gazes of the lawyers and the Inspector . |
| 16 | ‘ She 's the bird with the two Afghans , ’ said Arthur , who had seen pictures of the dogs in the papers . |
| 17 | He had seen pictures of the City . |
| 18 | She had seen pictures in the newspaper that Mrs Parvis had delivered every day of men and women who 'd been kept locked up in a camp till the Americans came and found them . |
| 19 | PC Alan Fraser , 33 , told the court that he had seen Sutherland at the scene of the explosion . |
| 20 | Before joining the Cape Town school , John had seen performances by the Cape Town Ballet Club , which paid its first visit to Johannesburg for a week at the Empire Theatre from 6 December 1943 . |
| 21 | As Randolph Churchill so eloquently described in The Fight for the Tory Leadership , Macmillan had seen Hailsham on the Monday before the Conference and indicated that in the event of retirement he would support his candidature . |
| 22 | The early part of 1992 had seen controversy within the government over policy and the government 's composition . |
| 23 | Cumberland was four months younger than Prince Charles , though , like him , he had seen action at the age of 13 . |
| 24 | Haig had seen action in the Sudan in 1898 and at the Battle of Omdurman , where he served with the Egyptian cavalry . |
| 25 | At Homestead they were guests of the 482 Tactical Fighter Wing which recently had seen action in the Gulg , and It was here that each was given a certificate making them Honorary F-16 Fighter Pilots . |
| 26 | ‘ I had n't even made the connection until a friend mentioned he had seen Tim in the papers with all the Princess Anne business . ’ |