Example sentences of "they [vb past] see the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And little by little they came to see the great Christian doctrine that eternal sin must be , in the very nature of things , eternal punishment or eternal misery . |
| 2 | It was only two o'clock , they 'd seen the parade many times before , and Mike 's match would n't start before 4.15 . |
| 3 | They 'd seen the film that summer at Abbotsfield . |
| 4 | It only reminded her of how she and Trish had hooted with laughter when they 'd seen the engraved invitations that had gone out in three languages for this evening 's showing . |
| 5 | Police had hoped they 'd seen the last of the joyriding and the crowds who gather to see the stolen cars in action . |
| 6 | We ran this kind of course by asking the teachers at the beginning of the course to select some device they 'd like to make , that they 'd seen the circuit of in a in a school magazine school science review magazine , and then build that . |
| 7 | They turned to see the Doctor and Bernice approaching . |
| 8 | But as they began to see the possibilities of the data highway , they also realised that they did not have the technical expertise to build the sorts of switched networks necessary to bring it off . |
| 9 | They liked seeing the old values reasserted . |
| 10 | When parents or social workers went up to see us , obviously they had to see the staff , and the woman in charge was so nice , she had this big front — ‘ My girls , my girls ’ — it was totally a load of shit . |
| 11 | They had to see the house — what remained of it after Brunt had finished with it . |
| 12 | They had seen the clouds of exhaust fumes spewed by the Trabants and Wartburgs which had brought escaping East Germans to the West . |
| 13 | ‘ When we asked how they knew we were coming , they would solemnly say that they had seen the Little People lighting candles in all the windows . |
| 14 | Asking Mr and Mrs Bloggs if they had seen the improvement in specific aspects of Fred 's work and then showing examples to back up statements made is one way of opening up discussion to avoid teacher domination of the meeting . |
| 15 | They had seen the recent administrative past and it had worked . |
| 16 | Teachers are unionized and a powerful enough group to prevent the decoupling of their salary levels from those of other public-sector employees , but none the less by 1985 they had seen the real value of their salaries fall to half their value a decade earlier . |
| 17 | They had seen the rise in output from the giants Fender and Gibson have an adverse effect on quality ( in short , they were n't making 'em like they used to ) and Jol and his team were determined to put matters straight . |
| 18 | Although only £1,000 was actually gained from the deal , they had seen the SFO investigation as ‘ the beginnings of a very rich gold seam ’ that they could tap , the judge said . |
| 19 | Later on they had seen the coypu man 's van parked on the front driveway of one of those houses . |
| 20 | Interlocking would have prevented the signalman putting the signals for the express at ‘ CLEAR ’ yet it is strange that although both footplatemen on the express admitted not having seen the home signal on the approach to Charfield both men were equally emphatic that they had seen the proceeding distant signal and they said it was showing a green light and in the clear position . |
| 21 | Some said they had seen the quizzical , grey-whiskered faces staring up at them as they crouched on the two boards above the refuse pit , peering at the nervous men from beside the walls of the cubicles and showing no apprehension . |
| 22 | Just about the time they had seen the signpost , the rain had started in earnest . |
| 23 | His babe in arms would be no more responsive to Lloyd George 's leonine appearance than would an accompanying parakeet in a cage and if both , having seen him , were then carried around the National Gallery , it would be equally valid to claim that they had seen the works of art on display as well . |
| 24 | The girls came into school discussing the merits of a programme they had seen the previous evening , a ‘ religious ’ programme , Meeting Point , which had been about pre-marital sex . |
| 25 | For decades the revolutionaries had rejected outright capitalism , the bourgeoisie , and the Western path in general ; they had seen the creation of a propertyless proletariat as a disaster to be avoided at almost any cost and had sought to move directly to socialism based on the commune . |
| 26 | The boys were allowed into the Gallery before the public , and after they had seen the sword the Chief Accountant of the Company talked about the Sword and answered questions . |
| 27 | Two girls sat down to make a picture together of the river they had seen the previous day . |
| 28 | They had seen the knuckles come out of the silken wrapping and the force of it scared their wits back into good manners . |
| 29 | But they told their grand father that they had seen the god , and that he had taken them to the mountain-top . |
| 30 | So Babushka trudged through the snow , asking everyone she met if they had seen the kings . |