Example sentences of "they had see [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked the villagers if they had seen him and Mr Natchet , the postman , said he had met him by the front gate when delivering letters about a month ago . |
| 2 | He had caught a glimpse of two bare legs , an exposed breast , a man with his trousers about his knees , before they had seen him , and he had run off , blundering panic-stricken through the undergrowth . |
| 3 | He claimed he got started after being spotted in a bar by someone who mistakenly thought they had seen him in a male model magazine . |
| 4 | Callaghan had made a forced landing in a field , but they had seen him get out . |
| 5 | They had had faith , they had seen Jesus perform miracles , they had seen him heal the sick , they had seen him give sight to the blind , they had seen some of the tremendous things that Jesus had done . |
| 6 | They had had faith , they had seen Jesus perform miracles , they had seen him heal the sick , they had seen him give sight to the blind , they had seen some of the tremendous things that Jesus had done . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The following day I asked the young women of an all-girls ' school I was visiting if they had seen her , and what they thought . |
| 9 | Such as Agnes and Flora , two " unknowns " who sent her a postcard because they had seen her on " telly " and were sorry to hear she was poorly ; eighty-year-old Phoebe who kept them awake one night when she was in a distressed state ; the flower lover who treated the ward as a potting shed taking clippings from the various plants ; the " blether " of women she was invited to join round one of the beds when she was fit enough to take a short walk . |
| 10 | They had seen something , they had heard something , they had smelt something , but all those various sensations added up to nothing solid : nothing that was known , for certain . |
| 11 | They examined the rope again and , satisfied that they had seen everything , climbed the stone steps back on to the track high on the river bank . |
| 12 | Most of the men on the plane would have been returning to their families and civilian life in the near future but , alas , they died on a remote and desolate Ayrshire hillside before they had seen their homes and families again . |
| 13 | Once the two fathers had signed , once they had seen their names written in the register of marriages , it was irrevocable . |
| 14 | They had seen her frolic with Sergeant and they did not like it . |
| 15 | They had seen her lover , not once but many times , in the pubs and the clubs , chatting up girls . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In his questionnaire , he named some of the more famous such videos , and asked the children to say whether they had seen them . |
| 18 | The point was , however , that Cumberbatch and Bates had named a number of video-nasties that did not in fact exist , and yet the children claimed that they had seen them . |
| 19 | They had seen them ? |
| 20 | Under the rules of 1865 they remained responsible for their publications after they had seen them into print . |
| 21 | They had seen nothing , they knew nothing . |
| 22 | They had seen nothing of Gus since he had withdrawn , she suspected with reluctance , after delivering her and her luggage at Paviour 's house . |
| 23 | They had seen nothing . |
| 24 | When they landed , Finlayson came over to ask if they had seen anything of Tribe . |
| 25 | They had seen his passion and anger at Beechwood . |
| 26 | Gods , how those clods had wailed when they had seen his proud lion-masked visage ! |
| 27 | ‘ They had seen it all before . ’ |
| 28 | And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child . |
| 29 | Through a gap a long wave of treetops stretched to the horizon , in the middle distance the smoke was coming and going in irregular bursts as they had seen it do once before from Ridgery Steep . |
| 30 | And there at Stamford , the beautiful town that Celia Fiennes and Defoe had admired so much remained almost exactly as they had seen it : but fossilised , moribund . |