Example sentences of "she had see [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being cradled against her mother 's soft warm body , Dot tried to feel like a baby , to remember what she had seen through the crack in the double doors as Gloria had cradled Baby against her while the nurses gathered round with protective outstretched arms . |
| 2 | Some were recognisably of those she had seen through the windows . |
| 3 | She had seen through the glass booth how flustered I was . |
| 4 | Increasingly she felt , without putting it into so many words , that all she wanted was to read , to paint , and to make her father into that person she had seen with the Princesse : a light , carefree , witty , happy Jacob . |
| 5 | Grainne blinked and shook her head , because just for a few seconds she had seen with dreadful clarity the Dark Ireland , the Evil Realm , the world of malevolence and malignancy . |
| 6 | Isabel 's gaze skittered nervously past them to the two men-at-arms , now held at the end of a very businesslike sword attached to the hand of the young man she had seen with Guy at the church . |
| 7 | She told him what she had seen at Sandown . |
| 8 | She remained serious about reading all her life , taking pains with her five children 's education and recommending that they read good books , " not some of the trash she had seen at Morrison & Gibb " . |
| 9 | She had seen at once , back in the Dragon Cloud , how his brutish exterior concealed a cultured manner . |
| 10 | They were like the boy she had seen at Oak Lodge … |
| 11 | One of the men she recognised as someone she had seen on the Prosecution side in a Belfast court during trials for terrorist offences . |
| 12 | To my utter surprise , Arune went home after one evenings viewing and produced the V-neck sweater with patterning that she had seen on the Video ! |
| 13 | Something came to her , a graffito she had seen on the wall of a burned-out Josephite temple in Denver , back when she was with the girlie gangcult . |
| 14 | In another , she was a small speck overwhelmed by a vast and writhing darkness that reminded her of nothing so much as pictures she had seen on the cover of Tcherkassoff 's album Black Holes , and Other Singularities . |
| 15 | Today 's world was one in which five-pound notes gushed benignly from the walls of banks at the touch of a button , in which people had only to scribble their names and anything they wished for was theirs ; a world in which — as she had seen on a television programme — unimaginable sums of money flew about the globe at the whim of shirt-sleeved young men who sat tapping idly at keyboards . |
| 16 | Among them was the one she had seen on the Jonquil . |
| 17 | Emily 's mind was partly on the enjoyable walk she had taken with Heinrich , who had unexpectedly proved a most delightful companion during the week ; partly on the bright green foulard dress she had seen on sale at Bobby 's in Margate yesterday when they visited the famous menagerie at the Grand Hall by the Sea , and partly it was on the coming evening . |
| 18 | Yesterday she had gone to the dingy little newsagent at the corner of the street to pay the paper bill , and to buy Matey a writing pad and envelopes , when she had seen on the counter a pile of postcards depicting society beauties . |
| 19 | There lingered perhaps an echo of grimness , and an echo of something else : an expression she had seen on the faces of men who have just loaded ship for a voyage . |
| 20 | Her ring at the doorbell was answered by the woman she had seen on her first visit — the one who had spoken a little English . |
| 21 | Their living room was full of bags of cement , the last she had seen of it . |
| 22 | He reminded her of statues she had seen of Apollo . |
| 23 | She had , and she felt slightly uneasy about admitting it , she had sought the smartly intense , at the expense of the more solid and dowdy virtues ; she had been attracted by surfaces , by clothes and manners and voices and trivial strange graces , and she had imitated what she had seen of these things in others . |
| 24 | The spacious living area of his suite was as luxurious as everything else she had seen of this hotel — a pair of couches facing each other across a low table , two individual chairs at an angle close to the window , with a desk and a bar supplying practical touches . |
| 25 | From what she had seen of maid 's work it was not very difficult . |
| 26 | From what she had seen of Araminta , Theda was ready to believe it . |
| 27 | He had not sought another interview with her , and , as the ladies naturally did not attend at the graveside , the first she had seen of him since then was when the party returned from the funeral . |
| 28 | And one who did not want to be punished , either , was their other comment , as witness the way he was prepared to kill Rose Hilaire once he saw that her tie-up with Joe and John Coffin would enable her memories of what she had seen of Ephraim 's body to go straight to dangerous quarters . |
| 29 | She had seen to Mrs Goodwin by nine o'clock and stopped for a chat and a bit of buttering-up . |
| 30 | She let Ferdinando teach her how to judge an aubergine ripe and a chicken fresh and then she copied those older women she had seen for the rest . |