Example sentences of "she had seen [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew Gwen Evans only slightly ; she had seen her at the funeral , and previous to that a couple of times , but the memory stuck . |
| 2 | Rachaela thought of the day she had seen her in the snow , the day Emma had bowed out from their lives with urgent smiles . |
| 3 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 4 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 5 | She had seen them around the hotel for the last five days . |
| 6 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 7 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 8 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 9 | Four weeks later she had seen him in the cinema queue with another girl , and had perceived that her day was over ; in between , she had known disorientation and obsession , diagnosed her trouble , and felt exhilarated . |
| 10 | She had recognised him instantly , though she had seen him in the flesh only once before and that had been across a crowded ballroom . |
| 11 | Since she 'd started work she had seen nothing of the surrounding area , except that covered by the bus route which took her to work and back each day . |
| 12 | She had seen it on the table on her Wednesday visit and had said : |
| 13 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 14 | Because he had faith in her — she had seen it in the colours he painted her . |