Example sentences of "had seen [pron] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1	Ted had been a little belligerent at first but a couple of hints that Pascoe had seen him drinking in the Club earlier and an oblique reference to the breathalyser test had calmed him down and made him most co-operative .
2	She denied it but did not tell him she had seen him fighting with the pedlar or that the man had chased her and Oliver in Nice .
3	That moment when she had seen him standing on the jetty , a tall dark figure against the bright sun , would remain locked in her memory foever .
4	In desperation , he might appeal to witnesses who had seen me sitting on the bench in the park while he was talking to my double outside .
5	Certainly she had seen something moving in the forest that day on Ridgery Steep , something fairly large , something white , and Allen had failed to see it ; but then it was possible that he had not looked in the right spot at the right moment and that his failure to see it was an accident .
6	An officer who worked alongside her for many years interpreted the fact that he had seen her kneeling at the mercy seat more than any other officer as a sign of her close relationship with God and the constant need for the kind of realignment which requires a certain humbling of oneself .
7	The friar was sure he had seen her lying in the graveyard amongst the tombs with Simon the tiler , and he a married man with three children .
8	Carlie believed everyone was out to do her in , and she had disliked Mrs Mason , the foster mother , as soon as she had seen her standing in the doorway .
9	He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress .
10	Emily knew that her beautiful daughter had a dozen friends at school , she had seen her walking down the street when classes were over , surrounded by other girls .
11	Coming early downstairs long before the others , she had seen it lying on the floor inside the door .

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