Example sentences of "had see [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Members were pleased when constituents said that they had seen them on the box , and only one Member had received complaints that he had not been seen . |
| 3 | This is the second skirmish in a brief cross-border raid for Edinburgh 's Joyriders ( the previous evening had seen them on the charity gig trail with Mega City Four in Tufnell Park ) , out to bludgeon the capital 's callow youth into line with their handsomely appointed tuff-pop manifesto . |
| 4 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 5 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had seen them through the gates . |
| 8 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 9 | He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest . |
| 10 | Leslie was aware that most people " can not Read at all " , but said he had seen them in the streets " Gather together about one that can Read " and listen to a newspaper being read aloud . |
| 11 | The man standing by my side said that he had seen them behind the terminal . |
| 12 | She had seen them around the hotel for the last five days . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |
| 15 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 16 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
| 17 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 18 | He had seen him in the city . |
| 19 | People had seen him in the park . |
| 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 | She had recognised him instantly , though she had seen him in the flesh only once before and that had been across a crowded ballroom . |
| 22 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 23 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 24 | She had brought her son over from South Africa and while staying in Bristol had seen me on the television screen . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He had recognised her at once when he had seen her at the funeral , and even then her looks , though pale and wan , had surprised him with their purity . |
| 27 | It was possible that he , too , had not troubled himself with thoughts of her real life until he had seen her in the garden with Ben . |
| 28 | Rachaela thought of the day she had seen her in the snow , the day Emma had bowed out from their lives with urgent smiles . |
| 29 | Many of them had seen it at the synagogue meeting on the previous night , but now in the daylight they were able to examine it more closely and exclaim at its resplendence . |
| 30 | She had seen it on the table on her Wednesday visit and had said : |