Example sentences of "had [adv] [adv] see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her lot had not been a happy one : the husband whom she had only ever seen for a few precious weeks in all since their marriage had now left her a widow , without support and with a child and step-children to fend for . |
| 2 | His house was full of things she had only ever seen in old films with Rock Hudson and Doris Day : a vacuum cleaner , which did the work of a suckerdrone ; a gramophone , which played unwieldy round black musidiscs with added scratch and hiss as part of the music ; an electric kettle that took ages , maybe two minutes , to heat up enough water for a cup of recaff , and did n't do anything about the impurities and pollutants . |
| 3 | There were no stores like the ones she could now see flashing past the cab window , fine jewellers and milliners , bookshops and department stores , their windows displaying a variety of goods Ellie had only ever seen in the pictures of second-hand magazines . |
| 4 | The pack animals were large tawny-coloured beasts of a kind that Rostov had only ever seen in illustration . |
| 5 | What I had so far seen of Binbrook held no charms for me — it was bare , isolated , and I did n't really want to seek out yet another Met Office with another set of people to get to know , now that the war was over , and there was no reason that I could see for us to continue plotting charts and reading instruments . |
| 6 | Kind he might be , although it seemed improbable from what she had so far seen of him , but Sally-Anne wanted nothing from men , neither kindness … nor love … nor anything . |
| 7 | Louis looked at the boy whom he had clearly never seen in his life . |
| 8 | His father turned toward him with an earnestness that Jack had never before seen in his face . |