Example sentences of "had see [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I had first arrived I had seen a couple of press people milling around , but now there seemed to be a whole platoon of them , cameras at the ready . |
| 2 | She had said , her eyes glittering with simulated enthusiasm , that she could hardly wait to get to her cottage , and Betty had said wistfully that it seemed like years since she had seen a blade of grass ( which was silly in itself , because of what else were the lawns of Hyde Park composed ? ) ; so Lydia , unhinged with the shock of bereavement , and further undone by wine , had said she could come too . |
| 3 | The warrior Wottolen protested in vain to Looking Glass that he had seen a vision of disaster at this place . |
| 4 | He had also been talking for ages to Broadman , and Ymor had seen a piece of paper change hands . |
| 5 | The war years had seen a boom in cocoa prices : in 1938 cocoa earned £5½ million for 300 000 long tons ; by 1948 , because of disease , production had fallen to 200 000 tons but earnings had increased to £41 million . |
| 6 | The sixties had seen a glamorisation of youth , with all its attendant absurdities , and the emergence of the skinhead style represented a counter-revolution . |
| 7 | As the cameras and microphones were trained on him , he told the colonel that HE had seen no evidence of stone-throwing . |
| 8 | They had seen the rise in output from the giants Fender and Gibson have an adverse effect on quality ( in short , they were n't making 'em like they used to ) and Jol and his team were determined to put matters straight . |
| 9 | A Mr. Chapman wrote to Whitbread asking him to return the copy of a report written by Dr. Yeats who had seen the girl on admission . |
| 10 | He had seen the look of greed on Bull O'Malley 's face and he smiled to himself in the dark . |
| 11 | On the contrary , Ligachev argued , it had seen the collectivisation of agriculture , the USSR 's emergence as the world 's second-largest economy and subsequently the defeat of Nazi Germany . |
| 12 | Or maybe he had seen the onset of labour in the way she had acted earlier , when he and Kāli untwisted the bales of hay for the night and spread out the fresh pine-needle bedding . |
| 13 | Lawton had seen the effect on friend and foe alike . |
| 14 | Yes , I 'm all right , ’ Tamar replied , opening her eyes and then veiling them with the black sweep of her lashes , but not before Tempy had seen the gleam of triumph in their topaz depths . |
| 15 | The first half of the eighteenth century had seen an increase in trade , which was paralleled by an increase in the population . |
| 16 | Food stocks had a dismal session after a survey suggested that fewer than half the UK 's big food companies had seen an upturn in demand by the middle of December . |
| 17 | Probably this was no longer true , for I had seen an African in town who seemed very much at home . |