Example sentences of "had see [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 2 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
| 3 | Moreover , Walpole , described in the same book ( p. 83 ) as someone who " thrived on gossip , and on playing at loo or at hazard with a duchess or two " , could very well have been a sufficiently astute observer of social mores to deduce that the first manifestations which he had seen of the new way of dressing constituted the beginning of a major trend . |
| 4 | They were slanted somehow , and he recollected pictures he had seen of the early ancestors of the Manchu . |
| 5 | And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them . |
| 6 | Indeed , my father 's face had gone a dull reddish colour , like no colour I had seen on a living being . |
| 7 | Perhaps they got on with their lives under the carpeted floor somewhere , while they were whisked to all the places Masklin had seen on the only map the nomes had ever found . |
| 8 | The Doctor had bent to examine something he had seen on the dappled carpet beside the communications terminal . |
| 9 | Minton would have been familiar with Buffet 's art , and that of other picasso-influenced French Realists , either through reproductions or from exhibitions he had seen at the Anglo-French Institute . |
| 10 | It was not until fifty years after the great fire which had swept it all away that Eadmer wrote this description of what he had seen as a small boy of about seven . |
| 11 | It brought the worst economic turmoil that this country had seen since the industrial revolution . |
| 12 | It was the worst violence Moscow had seen since the failed coup of August 1991 . |
| 13 | Demographics , natural wastage , the new consumerism and the Thatcher ‘ revolution ’ had seen off the decaying politico-cultural formation into which many of the imagined readerships were inserted , and the ‘ structures of feeling ’ which had underpinned and sustained them were exhausted . |
| 14 | He was about to leave the foundry and continue his journey when an apprentice came rushing in with the loveliest girl he had seen in a long while , and his heart seemed to stop . |
| 15 | I wore a suit that Mary had seen in a second-hand shop in Paris and insisted I bought so that at least I had one outfit I could put on for interviews without worrying whether it looked OK or not . |
| 16 | Behind the brunette there stood a man whom Lee had seen in a long-running television serial , playing a detective . |
| 17 | He said the police were talking to everyone Angie had seen in the two weeks before she … well … vanished , and so far had come up with nothing . |
| 18 | Corbett concentrated on the mystery surrounding King Alexander 's death but the visions he had seen in the Pictish village returned to haunt him . |
| 19 | Admission into the complex followed a similar pattern to that I had seen in the English prisons : searches , registration , allocation , different coloured uniforms for the various categories of prisoner , etc . |
| 20 | Louis XIV had seen in the last days of his reign the growing pointlessness of the traditional Franco-Austrian antagonism , but his efforts to achieve some agreement with the Habsburgs were not followed up by his successors . |
| 21 | Perhaps symbolic is the typical picket line of today ; people in high spirits shouting slogans and singing to the beat of a salsa band as they march defiantly under the eyes of the police contrast with the solemn processions of strikers we had seen in the 1940s , walking through the streets in silence and in proper order , as if to create any disturbance was a mark of poor breeding . |
| 22 | What Maria had seen in the humpbacked and dreary little tailor she would never know . |
| 23 | M. Chaillot was by now unexpectedly by my side , opening a huge satin-covered box of chocolates of the cream-filled variety I had seen in the local shop . |
| 24 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
| 25 | He had seen from the Select Committee 's Report that Scott had studied the Greek and Italian styles as well as Gothic and , being ‘ a person of great talent ’ , he hoped he would put ‘ a more lively and enlightened front to his buildings ’ . |