Example sentences of "have see [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 One , an older school , has seen him as a noble if embattled statesman .
2 The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention .
3 The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement .
4 He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others .
5 He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them .
6 I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich .
7 She stared at him and , as her eyes met his , once again , like the moment he 'd seen her in the pool , she seemed unable to look away .
8 He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired .
9 I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid .
10 Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm
11 A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram .
12 He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile .
13 Oh fine , yet Jo was just saying on the phone there that she 'd seen him in a catalogue .
14 Lucy reckoned that , for the man in charge , he had some staggeringly dull tasks to handle ; she 'd seen him in the stockroom once , counting every bottle in every crate of tonic water .
15 I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers .
16 Her father 's expression was the warmest she 'd seen it for a long time .
17 I 'd seen it along the end of the track .
18 Anyway I went there and I was impressed , I 'd seen it from the ship and I completely concur with everything that 's been said .
19 He 'd seen it in a junk-shop in Edinburgh and brought it all the way down .
20 Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop
21 It was a look she recognised instantly , although it was the first time she 'd seen it in the flesh .
22 ‘ I told her I 'd seen you over the weekend , ’ she relayed .
23 I asked the governor whether I could have a visit in the probation department so that Karen did n't have to see me in the gym with everyone else and I could talk to her a bit more intimately .
24 Werner came to our rescue with the loan of a hundred dollars , which would have to see us through the three or four months it might take us to reach Aru .
25 If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train …
26 As for King Arthur , Tolkien might well have seen him as a symptom of English vagueness .
27 You must have seen him at the pictures . ‘
28 If , for example , old man Jordan had come into the kitchen at that moment , Wycliffe might have seen him in the mirror ; but what of it ?
29 Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years .
30 Whoever was inside could have seen him from the windows .
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