Example sentences of "had seen [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cuzco had seen a similar burgeoning . |
| 2 | And they started that and they were sent out to this big villa and er that was the first time I had seen a continental headboard and er we could n't understand what it was you know . |
| 3 | While Stok was talking I had seen a familiar figure enter the door . |
| 4 | I waded out , concentrating on casting towards the weeds , where I had seen a good fish rise , when a glint of white under the water caught my eye . |
| 5 | His educational opportunities had been considerable and he had seen a good deal of Russian government from the inside . |
| 6 | Leeds should have gone on to pile up a big score but after Wallace had seen a close-range shot blocked by Coton and Gary McAllister 's lob was cleared off the line by Kernaghan , the tide turned . |
| 7 | The agreement was a diplomatic success for China , which had seen a sharp reduction in its contacts with Western countries since the Tiananmen square massacre of June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] . |
| 8 | Her teacher had seen a small notice about a charity in Russia which was looking for hosts for children from the affected regions and had contacted a friend , originally from Russia , who helped investigate the charity . |
| 9 | From what Seb had seen of her body — and he had seen a great deal — he suspected it was not far from the truth . |
| 10 | The young policeman from Bromley reported that he had seen a young couple whose description matched the wanted pair and they had gone towards the pier . |
| 11 | He had seen a possible solution , a way in which the conflicting aspects of the case might be reconciled . |
| 12 | Matthew Clarke , QC , for TV Licensing , part of the Post Office , maintained that two officers who had called at Mr Guest 's house had genuinely believed that they had seen a flickering light . |
| 13 | In Spain the struggle over the succession in 1702–13 had seen a prolonged effort by Catalonia and much of Aragon to throw off Castilian rule , an effort which drove them to support the Habsburg Archduke Charles against the eventually victorious Bourbon claimant to the throne , Philip V , grandson of Louis XIV . |
| 14 | In the pre-campaign week only 56 per cent had seen a recent opinion poll but this rose to 72 per cent in the first fortnight of the campaign and 77 per cent in the second . |
| 15 | The late seventeenth century had seen a new departure in philosophic enquiry ; philosophers abandoned metaphysical speculations and tried to pursue their studies in a scientific spirit . |
| 16 | Henry had tried to tempt him into making a racist statement by announcing that he had seen a black person outside the window two weeks ago , but all the constable had said was ‘ You do n't see many coloureds in this part of Wimbledon . ’ |
| 17 | He had seen a thoughtful look in her eyes . |
| 18 | Just in front of me I had seen a large shell-crater , an old one . |
| 19 | The doctor had come and given her two tablets to take , he had said there was n't a thing wrong with he that would n't be wrong with any red-blooded girl who had seen a fatal accident . |
| 20 | He and the WPC had seen a red Ford Orion and followed it . |
| 21 | When they got it to the surface , they had seen a writhing mass of jelly , from which two fierce eyes had peered at them . |
| 22 | Remembering that a couple of kilometres back we had seen a huge moose lumbering across the road , I peered fearfully through a slit in my tent to see this massive reindeer with bloodshot eyes and antlers that appeared to be three metres across . |
| 23 | In front of them , about twenty yards away , he had seen a barbed-wire fence some three feet high which an old corporal told him had already cost a thousand lives of those who had done nothing more than erect it . |
| 24 | The highway stretched pale and deserted in the evening sun , yet this was the very same road on which Sharpe had seen a French corps marching that morning . |
| 25 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |
| 26 | Pete had seen a fair number of valley mornings , although not so many had been as early as this . |
| 27 | As regards the Bank 's own activities , however , the financial year July 1989 to June 1990 had seen a positive transfer to the developing countries , amounting to $3,370 million including " soft loans " made by the International Development Association ( IDA ) . |
| 28 | The later seventeenth century had seen a marked rise in the number of lawyers , scriveners , physicians , surgeons , apothecaries and schoolmasters , whose most prosperous members formed a type of urban gentry who were able to lead a leisured life without the support of a landed estate . |
| 29 | I therefore associated towns with tin roofs and thatched huts ; in Jibuti , Berbera and Aden I had seen no memorable buildings . |
| 30 | The only reason he was here was that he had seen every other programme on locally . |