Example sentences of "she had see [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had seen no reason to abandon it when she came to Medewich two years ago , even though she might now have been able to afford a car . |
| 2 | She had seen a horror film once about an archaeologist in Egypt . |
| 3 | She had seen a scene like that once , in a film about a prison island where convicts were dumped and left to fend fur themselves . |
| 4 | On other pages , she had seen a village of huts set in the lee of a bluff , where mothers — Italian mothers with babies on their laps — were sitting in the sun on chairs , just like at home . |
| 5 | She had seen a massacre . |
| 6 | And when she had seen a man 's shape she had thought for one wild moment that Mervyn or even John had called with flowers . |
| 7 | An hour or so ago , she had seen a stone of the right size and shape lying on the edge of a garden , and had put it into her pocket . |
| 8 | She had seen a phone in the big hall they called the vestibule . |
| 9 | She had said , her eyes glittering with simulated enthusiasm , that she could hardly wait to get to her cottage , and Betty had said wistfully that it seemed like years since she had seen a blade of grass ( which was silly in itself , because of what else were the lawns of Hyde Park composed ? ) ; so Lydia , unhinged with the shock of bereavement , and further undone by wine , had said she could come too . |
| 10 | She had seen a lot of Japanese kaiju eiga flatties as a child thanks to a quirk of her father 's , and had now been able to draw on her memories of them . |
| 11 | One day , she had seen a car screech to a stop and several men overpower a pedestrian and force him into their vehicle ; from a distance she had smelled the smoke of bonfires burning blacklisted books ; she had glimpsed the outline of a human body floating in the dark waters of the canal . |
| 12 | She had seen a leaflet about the YCs and thought that this would provide a good way of getting to know people . |
| 13 | Chesarynth felt conspicuous ; people around were staring at them , but it was the first time in her weary day 's travel that she had seen a box and it called to the echoes of firesong that the one on the Moon had left in her mind . |
| 14 | She was sure she had seen a hand in the drawer , a hand with little pink nails and a silver ring on one finger . |
| 15 | She had seen a woman ride from the dark woods , screaming her grief , her clay-streaked hair streaming ; the woman had ridden around the pyre . |
| 16 | A minute later she had seen the girl slowly walking along the aisle , guidebook in hand , the man strolling behind her carefully distanced . |
| 17 | Her triumph would have been short-lived if she had seen the smile slip from his face and a look of regret shape his expression ; his quiet eyes were drawn to the window , to the skyline beyond . |
| 18 | She had seen the technique used before — do n't give the victim a chance to think of a convincing lie . |
| 19 | She had seen the film , too , and I received a letter some time later from her husband , Mr Hallows , telling me that Odette was not in the best of health and they were moving house . |
| 20 | Elisabeth recalled the times she had seen the midwife arrive at a peasant 's cottage . … |
| 21 | Her description was so detailed and precise that experts agreed that she had seen the eagle . |
| 22 | It now hardly entered her life except for the time when , in the dark patch of garden below the bedroom window , she had seen the snake . |
| 23 | Unlike that gentle man she was neither shocked nor surprised because she had seen the way Tom Reynolds silently lusted after his employer 's wife ; she knew also that Esther was no better . |
| 24 | Travis turned away , but not before she had seen the way his face closed up . |
| 25 | Whereas she had seen the assessment as a way of addressing Tom 's unsettled home situation , establishing an objective base line from which she and her ex-husband could identify how their differences were affecting Tom , the EP refused to become involved in this area . |
| 26 | It would be a few hours before she could face Marguerite , and no doubt the girl , Marie , would be very quick to tell Alain 's mother that she had seen the Englishwoman wandering into the woods like a lunatic . |
| 27 | She had seen the pity in her mother 's eyes and a great rage against Janine had rushed through Maura . |
| 28 | As well as that , how could she admit to Bella that she had seen the money hidden in the drawer ? |
| 29 | She said this last doubtfully because she had seen the School as recently as Jarvis had and could not imagine any ‘ civilized people ’ renting it . |
| 30 | She met his eyes , searching for any lingering trace of the bleakness she had seen the night before , but there was none , only undiluted wickedness flirting with her senses . |