Example sentences of "had see a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scarlet did not believe this for a moment , which was why she held reality at arm 's length and had to see a therapist about it . |
| 2 | He had to see a man about a gallery . ’ |
| 3 | Jay at three in the morning — hello , young lovers , wherever you are ! — drunk , suddenly had to see a picture of Lucy . |
| 4 | When I had first arrived I had seen a couple of press people milling around , but now there seemed to be a whole platoon of them , cameras at the ready . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 7 | The nineteenth century had seen a variety of ad hoc political bodies . |
| 8 | By the time the Ashleys bought the twenty-two-room château , it had seen a variety of owners and fortunes , yet although remarkably close to the battlefront in both World Wars , had escaped any major damage . |
| 9 | It was also felt that it was a company which nobody could attack on the grounds of political bias in favour of the project — if anything , thought Walsh , the other way round , after he had seen a portrait of Margaret Thatcher prominently displayed in its Ealing headquarters . |
| 10 | The deadening sense of obligation with which Coleridge had returned to Bristol was now swiftly transformed , until , as a ‘ neutral spectator ’ ( perhaps Cottle ) told Thomas De Quincey , ‘ if ever in his life he had seen a man under deep fascination , and what he would have called desperately in love , Coleridge , in relation to Miss F , was that man ’ . |
| 11 | They radioed that , at the Bunbeg bus turn-about and taxi stand on the Glen Road , they had seen a man with a revolver accompanied by two other men , one of whom was looking at the nearby mountain through binoculars . |
| 12 | In the other quotation ( 2.21.6 ) he appears to have taken the Gorgon Medusa killed by Perseus as a member of a wild Libyan race : " he ( Procles ) had seen a man from this race brought to Rome " . |
| 13 | Once Dot had seen a canary in a bent cage pulled out , black like a little sparrow from the ashes and soot , yet still singing even though its owner was gone . |
| 14 | Edward IV 's last years ( unlike those of Edward III ) had seen a return to political stability . |
| 15 | Edward IV 's last years ( unlike those of Edward III ) had seen a return to political stability . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Spokesman Song Jian noted that areas affected by acid rain had seen a fall in agricultural production , devastation of the environment and serious economic losses . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I had noticed the name on the map ; it seemed very remote but I had seen a reference to an inn there . |
| 20 | Irwin had seen a girl in one firm doing corrections , but was told this was not customary . |
| 21 | He shut his eyes for a moment , but not before Kate had seen a flicker of private anguish . |
| 22 | She had seen a phone in the big hall they called the vestibule . |
| 23 | However , before any of this could happen , Rear-Admiral Kotov , from the Ordzhonikidze , went to see Rear-Admiral Philip Burnett , Chief of Staff of the Portsmouth naval base , complaining that his sailors had seen a frogman near his ships that morning , and demanding an explanation . |
| 24 | The warrior Wottolen protested in vain to Looking Glass that he had seen a vision of disaster at this place . |
| 25 | Born in Brittany , the son of a Jewish tailor and antique dealer , Max Jacob had seen a vision of Christ on the wall of his little room in the Rue Ravignan . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He had seen a row of black faces staring at him from the platform of one of the Red Sand Towers in the Nore approaches . |
| 28 | ‘ Earlier , I had seen a picture of Farrah in the paper . |
| 29 | He had seen a boat with a man in it , not far from the beach . |
| 30 | Dr Gerard fought back , by saying that he had seen a letter from Warburton to the printer , complaining that one half of Scotland 's clergy were fanatics , and the other half were infidels , but Johnson still gainsaid him ; Warburton , he believed , wrote as he spoke — without thinking ; ‘ Sir , the very worst way of being intimate , is by scribbling . ’ |