Example sentences of "[pron] had see [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had seen newspaper photos of him since his release from the psikhushka , but they had n't prepared me for his gauntness , pallor , baldness . |
| 2 | Then , placing my hands on my hips like I had seen Mum do many times when in a– temper , I looked her straight in the eyes . |
| 3 | I had seen Don sloping about the beach , still not satisfied with the surf , not enough to swim out and take shots , anyway . |
| 4 | I had seen shyness stiffen her into a quite absurd primness . |
| 5 | Several times I had seen Gwenellen with that barrier down , but never Aline . |
| 6 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |
| 7 | So I had to see Dad every day and have him deplore me . |
| 8 | At that time the observatory was housed in some rather dilapidated wooden huts which had seen service with the Royal Navy during the war , and these were later replaced by a fine purpose-built building which offered much better accommodation and laboratory facilities . |
| 9 | She stood where she had seen Scathach in the story , his face now indistinguishable from the young man with whom she travelled . |
| 10 | She had seen Scathach . |
| 11 | One woman was prepared to swear she had seen Sellotape on the back of Pike 's neck . |
| 12 | This was the first time she had seen Naylor since her discovery that she loved him . |
| 13 | She had seen Detective Inspector Montgomery earlier on , passing a window . |
| 14 | She had seen salvation for him in McAllister , that was for sure , and if Neil was more doubtful , about that and about her , with Havvie 's hateful words still ringing in his head , and his memory of her tortured face growing the more painful whenever he recalled it , the passing of time only accentuated the agony of his loss . |
| 15 | She had seen mention of it on a newspaper placard earlier that morning . |
| 16 | An elf and an urchin , she had seen Holly . |
| 17 | But she had to see Corosini . |
| 18 | The discontent was brought into the capital by the arrival in 1932 of some 15 000 unemployed " Veterans " ( i.e. men who had seen army service in the First World War ) . |
| 19 | Nicholson saw them around Sunset Strip and for a time they were joined by Elvis Presley , who had seen Rebel Without a Cause forty-four times and could speak Dean 's lines word perfect . |
| 20 | And in the Stop Hinkley Centre , Jill Sutcliffe , an experienced campaigner who had seen Luxulyan from the gantry head , was ready to encourage and advise the uncertain before they took the stage in front of the cold , piercing gazes of the lawyers and the Inspector . |
| 21 | The very title , Learning through Drama , pointed many teachers who had seen drama merely as a diversion offered in the name of self-awareness in a more positive direction . |
| 22 | He wondered who had seen Rose on her last day , and where ? |
| 23 | The last time I saw prisons like that was in northern Iraq , when the Kurds were knocking down doors and killing guards , freeing men and women who had seen daylight in years . |
| 24 | They had only three or four NCOs who had seen action before , and 50 replacement troops had never fired a rifle before they reached Sparrow Force . |
| 25 | ‘ SHe ca n't just have gone ! ’ she shouted in a deep , masculine voice , in response to her officers , discovery that no one had seen Crevecoeur since late afternoon , and certainly not in the act of leaving the building . |
| 26 | Even before we had left the environs of Mount Pleasant airport , we had seen upland geese grazing unconcernedly alongside the runway , and we crossed creeks where small parties of speckled teal were swimming . |
| 27 | For over five kilometres they had seen debris and signs of an ancient fireball which had scorched the earth . |
| 28 | East Germans in Prague said they had seen building work begin at the weekend to make it more effective . |
| 29 | Nearly two months had passed since the last crisis in their relationship — the night they had seen Bicycle Thieves — and still neither of them had had the courage to face its implications . |
| 30 | Chaplin and Keaton came into movies from a vaudeville background in which they had seen poverty and experienced it for themselves . |