Example sentences of "who had see [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the vast increase in the Nazi vote came primarily from the impoverished middle classes who had seen their savings and living standards smashed in the wake of the Versailles Treaty and the Depression . |
| 2 | But thousands of parents who had seen their children 's life-style changed through the impact of the underground press were only too well aware of its significance . |
| 3 | In fact , Dustin was not unknown to Nichols , who had seen him in Journey of the Fifth Horse and had auditioned him for the Broadway musical The Apple Tree . |
| 4 | He had kissed Holly , wetly on each cheek , and he had not cared who had seen him , and he had whispered in Holly 's ear . |
| 5 | He and Ford had a cannon on the roof loaded with everything that they had been able to lay their hands on : stones , penknives , pieces of lightning-conductor , chains , nails , the embossed silver cutlery from the dining-room , and even some ivory false teeth , picked up by Ford who had seen them gleaming in the undergrowth ; but the greater part of the improvised canister was filled with fragments of marble chipped from The Spirit of Science Conquers Ignorance and Prejudice . |
| 6 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |
| 7 | She was aware that this process exposed first her buttocks and then her breasts , fleetingly , to Crowe , who had seen them and more than seen them , already , but not in circumstances either of them , she took it , cared to remember . |
| 8 | A few years later , in Lewin 's Birds of New South Wales ( 1813 ) , we find a pair displayed , giving us more information , by one who had seen them wild ; but the background is rather vague local colour . |
| 9 | Sarah caught it first , being nearest , and she soon forgot to mope for her disconsolate Sir George ( who had seen them off with very ill grace ) . |
| 10 | Maggie was even more startled to find him alone when she came in and instantly relieved that she had n't allowed the boy who had seen her home from the village further than the road gate . |
| 11 | Just then Angela , who had seen her crossing the field , came running out of the farmhouse . |
| 12 | Her limbs were graceful , her whole body proportioned like that of a young goddess ; as for her breasts , an infatuated young man who had seen her in a small part at Robert 's Shield Theatre wrote her a letter quoting the Song of Solomon at length : Asshe threatened to horsewhip him . |
| 13 | At the gate I found a workman , who had seen her jump the low wall separating the garden from the road , and then ride on towards the hills and Wuthering Heights . |
| 14 | Those who had seen her in this mood before faded quietly out of reach ; others got their fingers burnt . |
| 15 | A very nice letter it was too , but just one of many from people who had seen me on television . |
| 16 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 17 | In desperation , he might appeal to witnesses who had seen me sitting on the bench in the park while he was talking to my double outside . |
| 18 | The police had found somebody who had seen me on my island at the time of the murder , and so the judge let me go free . |
| 19 | One because the nation was sort of a people who had seen themselves homeless from these start and God had given them a home so they took special care of sojourners and aliens , and secondly , I think , because they had an enlightened attitude towards debt . |
| 20 | The old lady who had seen something from her window , all those years ago . |
| 21 | The man behind the final stages of the planning was the then Deputy Chairman of the Board , Mr J M Woolf , CB , a great advocate for and a frequent visitor to the cutters who had seen our need for more sophisticated and faster boats . |
| 22 | We knew that inside were climbers who had been on the same route , who had seen us , who had spoken to us . |
| 23 | DS Tony Bull , of Clacton CID , said police officers were anxious to hear from anyone who had seen anything at the premises between about 7.45pm on Sunday and 7.30am on Monday . |
| 24 | One of the notebook crowd climbed aboard and came into the dining car , inviting anyone who had seen anyone or anything suspicious the previous evening to please unbutton , but of course no one had , or no one was saying , because otherwise the whole train would have known about it by now . |
| 25 | For a man who had seen his filly defeated , Barry Hills was not too disappointed in Soiree , especially in view of the extra furlong of the Classic and the likelihood that there will be a faster gallop . |
| 26 | So I wondered what chance I had of outstaying Lebanese men who had picked up their first Kalashnikov aged six , or the Vietnamese man who had seen his mother raped before going on to kill his first Cambodian at the age when I was doing my Common Entrance . |
| 27 | The names of the people are arbitrary labels , but the point of the sentence can not be grasped unless it is realized that the reason for the questioning was to find out what had happened from someone who had seen it . |
| 28 | He was excellent at charming wardrobe ladies , new young chorus members straight from music school , and surly , battered old musicians in the orchestra pit who had seen it all before . |
| 29 | He surveyed the encompassing scene in the cool , calm and collected manner of someone who had seen it all before . |