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Example sentences of "[pron] have first see " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	It was at Thurso in Scotland that I 'd first seen surfers riding tubes .
2	She laughed the same way as when I 'd first seen her .
3	By a remarkable coincidence this book arrived on my desk for review a matter of weeks after I had first seen it and browsed through it in a bookshop in Kathmandu .
4	I had first seen her in the desert when I went for my first ‘ bedu ’ breakfast and the prospective bridegroom 's brother had played fox in the hen coop .
5	I had first seen it on out Skerries during spring migration .
6	She had the face I had first seen in the music-room door : both amused and conspiratorial , and now appealing as well .
7	I though of Poppy and was surprised to find that the fever that had raged in my blood since I had first seen her was n't there any more .
8	Tolonen looked across at the boy , trying to see him as Spatz saw him ; as he himself had first seen him , before he had seen the films that demonstrated the boy 's abilities .
9	Even Benny had looked green when she 'd first seen it , and Benny had had time to get used to the idea .
10	But oh , he had set her heart to racing the instant she 'd first seen him .
11	He was the blond man she had first seen when she opened her eyes under the tree .
12	Violet — her hot tears tumbled ; she had been crying all the while , since she had first seen the razor and — felt like kissing her .
13	It was still as gloomy as the day on which she had first seen it and she longed to transform it into a place of splendid elegance .
14	Flavia , looking from an upper window , saw it , saw it on the exact spot where she had first seen Michel , experienced confusion , incredulous joy , a pang .
15	She read it through and then sat for a long time on the white strips of the reclining chair in which she had first seen Signor Fixit .
16	She made a mild attempt to evade him but he cut across and landed in front of her , sitting , as she had first seen him , with the sheep and goats dithering and teetering before and around him .
17	Shortly after she became aware of the sounds , they stopped ; a moment later she came to the clearing where she had first seen and spoken to him .
18	She reached the clearing where she had first seen Fernand .
19	At three in the morning she passed the field where she had first seen Angel Clare , and felt again the disappointment when he did not dance with her .
20	Who would have thought when she had first seen him in England that he would drag her into his life , order her about , kiss her ?
21	They had never even tried it until she had first seen Alain and now it seemed that every step she took was to be supervised .
22	She had first seen it on one of the standards fluttering in the throne room .
23	Leith was reversing her car when she spotted the Jaguar which she had first seen — grief , was it only yesterday morning ?
24	Charity had felt something tug at her heart the moment she had first seen this cove .
25	She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance .
26	It was the idea of his father , who had first seen the university in 1932 .
27	Do not administer anaesthetics ( ie MS222 ) unless you have first seen this done by a qualified person .
28	A justification for talk of abstract ideas is that it provides an explanation of how our thought and knowledge can be general ; ‘ how we can know any proposition to be true of all particular triangles , except we have first seen it demonstrated of the abstract idea of a triangle . ’
29	Twenty minutes later , George Leeming lay as they had first seen him , except that his eyes were now open and his back arched as the doctor had placed a pillow under him to make him more comfortable .
30	His memories of that triumph had , of course , been soured by her departure , and now it was he who wore the hungry , yearning look he 'd first seen on Furie 's face .