Example sentences of "time he [vb past] see the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recalled the first time he had seen the impressive building as a schoolboy on a day 's outing to see the sights of London . |
| 2 | He was thinking — and something had happened that day to make him do so — about the first time he had seen the female golden eagle in the Zoo . |
| 3 | Tsu Ma knelt down and held his shoulders , nodding , remembering how he had felt the first time he had seen the ritual , not then knowing what was happening , nor why . |
| 4 | Was that slightly pooped gentleman with the waving arms who had ( oh God ! ) told Lord Boddy that his views were absolutely fascinating , and ( oh God oh God ! ) lit another of the television company 's cigarettes with their silver butane table-lighter every time he had seen the red light come up on the camera pointing at him — was that exuberantly shameful figure really identical with the anguished mortal man who now lay here stretched as taut as a piano-string in the dark ? |
| 5 | It was the first time he had seen the colonel sitting on a chair , not on a horse . |