Example sentences of "[pron] had see them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 2 | The only occasions on which I had seen them in operation they had failed lamentably . |
| 3 | I had seen them in Kano clutching their swords as they slept in shop doorways where they were employed as night-watchmen . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had seen them on their expensive horses , swooping across country , confident in the saddle . |
| 7 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |
| 8 | The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat . |
| 9 | She had seen them around the hotel for the last five days . |
| 10 | No one had seen them for days . |
| 11 | Members were pleased when constituents said that they had seen them on the box , and only one Member had received complaints that he had not been seen . |
| 12 | Under the rules of 1865 they remained responsible for their publications after they had seen them into print . |
| 13 | He had seen them through the gates . |
| 14 | He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest . |
| 15 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 16 | Leslie was aware that most people " can not Read at all " , but said he had seen them in the streets " Gather together about one that can Read " and listen to a newspaper being read aloud . |
| 17 | The man standing by my side said that he had seen them behind the terminal . |
| 18 | He had seen them from far away , and had come to help them , one of them in particular . |