Example sentences of "had see [art] [noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The first half of the eighteenth century had seen an increase in trade , which was paralleled by an increase in the population . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Probably this was no longer true , for I had seen an African in town who seemed very much at home . |