Example sentences of "they [vb past] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was already past midnight when they got to see Dustin , who was playing pool by himself , while a huge party for the cast was going on in another suite . |
| 2 | They 'd seen Aqib working away with his finger-nails while holding the ball in his other hand with the seam crosswise . |
| 3 | After their reconstruction , 35 witnesses called the police saying they thought they 'd seen Eila . |
| 4 | A lot of them said they 'd seen Mrs Sugar , but none of them really had , and nobody believed them . |
| 5 | A lot of them said they 'd seen Mrs Sugar , but none of them really had , and nobody believed them . |
| 6 | Men would n't forget easily when they 'd seen Lucille . |
| 7 | Grant saw them immediately , traversing the same passage they 'd seen Forster and Lawton follow . |
| 8 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 9 | RAF corporal John Williams and his wife Selina had told the court they 'd seen cocks fighting … as they drove past the layby . |
| 10 | They 'd seen Miss Lavant on the promenade and about the town , always walking slowly , sometimes with a neat wicker basket . |
| 11 | He was interrupted by a polite cough that came from the doorway , and they turned to see Ling , who had arrived in time to hear Silas 's last words . |
| 12 | A masculine voice joined in the conversation , and they turned to see Dr Rafaelo at the door , with a broad smile on his face . |
| 13 | They began to see penguins — ‘ ducks without wings ’ , they called them , patos sin alas — and ‘ sea-wolves ’ , or seals . |
| 14 | Together they went to see Baldwin after dinner and persuaded him , apparently without great difficulty , to go out , if he had to , with a bang and not a whimper . |
| 15 | Ten days after the Nickells flew back from Canada , they went to see Rachel 's body . |
| 16 | They managed to see Maeda who dropped hints and told them to be circumspect . |
| 17 | Prosecution witnesses , brothers Oswyn and Orwel Williams , told the jury they remembered seeing line marks on Paul Jones ' legs . |
| 18 | TEENAGERS who were at school with alleged foster parents ' cruelty victim Paul Llewelyn Jones told a court yesterday they remembered seeing marks on his body . |
| 19 | For over five kilometres they had seen debris and signs of an ancient fireball which had scorched the earth . |
| 20 | She must have sat alone there for a good quarter of an hour , singing to herself , before Henry and Lettice came crashing back through the woods , squealing that they had seen Humphrey and Janet and must take to the skiff at once . |
| 21 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 22 | East Germans in Prague said they had seen building work begin at the weekend to make it more effective . |
| 23 | Hoffman 's measurement of the gamma spectrum was their third signature for neutrons : first there had been their own relatively crude neutron measurements with the dosimeter , then they had seen Jones ' suggestive neutron spectrum and now this ( erroneous as it turned out ) gamma peak . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Nearly two months had passed since the last crisis in their relationship — the night they had seen Bicycle Thieves — and still neither of them had had the courage to face its implications . |
| 26 | Amongst new captives brought in were a Maxwell laird and an English under-officer , both of whom testified that they had seen King Edward Balliol riding off eastwards from the camp area , alone , still only in shirt and breeches , presumably making for the Border and Carlisle . |
| 27 | They had arrived home near the turnpike crossroads at 10.15pm , they had heard a shot at 10.25 , and they had seen William Tidbury and William Day leaving a Path near the woods at 10.50 , which was some five minutes after PC Golby had discovered the first body . |
| 28 | How they had seen deer twice the size of anything in England and bears such as this one , which would crush a horse in its huge , muscular arms . |
| 29 | The value of such exposure is difficult to measure but , when three of the company 's craft demonstrators recently returned from tours of Japan , they all reported that an amazing number of people approached them to say they had seen Wedgwood featured on the Did You Really Know It ? programme during October . |
| 30 | After his death and burial in a far corner of the churchyard , several Dalespeople swore that they had seen George Hodgson walking by moonlight and after the mysterious deaths of a number of them , his body was exhumed and buried by the church porch with a stake through its heart . |