Example sentences of "had seen [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One day , Jimmy Coutts cycled in to work ( he ‘ lived out ’ with his wife and young family in a village near Cambridge ) , and said that he had seen a telegraph boy delivering a telegram at a house opposite his , where he knew the wife of one of the air crew officers at Oakington lived . |
| 2 | She had seen a horror film once about an archaeologist in Egypt . |
| 3 | The General Household Survey found that in one month in 1985 , out of people aged 65 and over , 34% had seen their doctor ; 5% had seen a nurse ; 1% had seen a health visitor ; 11% had seen a chiropodist ( footcare ) : 9% had seen a home help ; 2% had received meals on wheels ; and 5% had been to a day centre . |
| 4 | The Falkirk teenager had seen a shopping trolley being thrown on to the line from a bridge and knew that a passenger train was only minutes away . |
| 5 | Once I had seen a rabbit snare fixed between the palings of a fence , and now my mind 's eye saw a rabbit hopping slowly towards this remembered snare as if hypnotized , and the rabbit was me . |
| 6 | and had seen a TV programme the previous evening relating to death . |
| 7 | The men asked if the couple had seen a boxer puppy — and when the Wignalls said they had n't , they were abused and attacked , said police . |
| 8 | One day , she had seen a car screech to a stop and several men overpower a pedestrian and force him into their vehicle ; from a distance she had smelled the smoke of bonfires burning blacklisted books ; she had glimpsed the outline of a human body floating in the dark waters of the canal . |
| 9 | He had seen a sheepdog trial in Cumbria : amazing creatures . |
| 10 | She had seen a woman ride from the dark woods , screaming her grief , her clay-streaked hair streaming ; the woman had ridden around the pyre . |
| 11 | The General Household Survey found that in one month in 1985 , out of people aged 65 and over , 34% had seen their doctor ; 5% had seen a nurse ; 1% had seen a health visitor ; 11% had seen a chiropodist ( footcare ) : 9% had seen a home help ; 2% had received meals on wheels ; and 5% had been to a day centre . |
| 12 | She could n't defend herself without rousing him to greater ferocity ; she knew that in the moment of conflict , an enemy can never protest to be a friend and be believed ; she had seen the distrust Kit 's sudden switches of mood inspired . |
| 13 | Her triumph would have been short-lived if she had seen the smile slip from his face and a look of regret shape his expression ; his quiet eyes were drawn to the window , to the skyline beyond . |
| 14 | Later on they had seen the coypu man 's van parked on the front driveway of one of those houses . |
| 15 | Mr McCue had seen the ski jump being used and commented : ‘ I saw very few people actually ski from the very top of the ramp most of them start half way down . ’ |
| 16 | Like Attlee and his senior ministers in 1945 , Churchill had seen the wartime machine and it had worked . |
| 17 | After each film was seen subjects had to decide whether they had seen the film section before or not and give a rating of their confidence in their decision . |
| 18 | She was an aristocrat and woman of royal blood , who had seen the throne pass in 518 not to her son ( who had married the Emperor Anastasius 's daughter ) , but to an uneducated provincial , Justin , the illiterate soldier-son of an Illyrian peasant . |
| 19 | Those had been her words , and if she was being exact , they would mean that he had seen the icebound vessel from the air , exactly as Sunderby had seen it . |
| 20 | But nevertheless I had seen the Cabinet agenda getting more and more overflowing and , therefore , Cabinet decisions had to be taken quickly . |
| 21 | In the first place , by 1986 , teachers and other educational staff had seen the purchasing power of their salaries slip to a half or a third of their 1980 value . |
| 22 | But the airline had seen the draft report and accepted its findings . |
| 23 | Several acquaintances and former workmates had seen the television broadcast and wanted to offer their sympathy and advice , which was generally as well-intentioned as it was useless . |
| 24 | Church committee treasurer John King said yesterday the delicate operation had attracted a crowd of spectators , including one or two who had seen the fire engine and thought there was something wrong . |
| 25 | To my absolute horror I found that all my controls were completely frozen , I was quite certain I had seen the ground crew go round and remove all the external locks before I had climbed aboard . |
| 26 | He had seen the pressure army wives were under , had seen their faces crumple when their men went out on a mission . |
| 27 | I knew of the Knowlton Circles in Dorset but I had never seen them , although I had seen an air photograph . |