Example sentences of "she had see [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew Gwen Evans only slightly ; she had seen her at the funeral , and previous to that a couple of times , but the memory stuck . |
| 2 | Rachaela thought of the day she had seen her in the snow , the day Emma had bowed out from their lives with urgent smiles . |
| 3 | She had seen me on television and remembered the skinny little boy , Linford Christie , who had asked her all those questions on a flight from Kingston twenty-one years earlier . |
| 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 | He was as perfect to her now as he had been when she had seen him as a child . |
| 11 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 12 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 13 | It was one of the joys of life , and particularly she loved dancing tonight with Tony Radcliffe , because he was her oldest friend in the world and this was the first time she had seen him for eighteen months . |
| 14 | He had looked older when she had seen him at St Petrock 's ; but he had been scowling then , and now he was looking quite friendly and interested — rather like James , who sat in front of them regarding them both with faithful brown eyes . |
| 15 | The young receptionist gave no hint of recognition , even though she had seen him at least a dozen times before . |
| 16 | She had seen him at 5pm and there had been no major problems . |
| 17 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 18 | Until she had seen him without his clothes on — so she had told herself — Jessica had not been sure . |
| 19 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 20 | Four weeks later she had seen him in the cinema queue with another girl , and had perceived that her day was over ; in between , she had known disorientation and obsession , diagnosed her trouble , and felt exhilarated . |
| 21 | Since she had seen him in Marlott , his face had grown more thoughtful . |
| 22 | She had recognised him instantly , though she had seen him in the flesh only once before and that had been across a crowded ballroom . |
| 23 | She had seen it at first hand , treated children who were victims . |
| 24 | She had seen it on the table on her Wednesday visit and had said : |
| 25 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 26 | Quite apart from all the pictures in the papers , she had seen it for herself at the presentation . |
| 27 | Because he had faith in her — she had seen it in the colours he painted her . |
| 28 | She had seen it in any case and she was not Sairellen Thackray who would look down her granite nose at him and sneer . |