Example sentences of "who [vb past] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is your contact who reported seeing Manescu board the Travemünde ferry for Helsinki reliable ? |
| 2 | Joanna , he was told , by a rather uppity landlord who rejoiced to see privilege spiked , was out in the fields . |
| 3 | ‘ You remember the two men who came to see Daddy at the old house , do n't you ? ’ said Mother . |
| 4 | When Kirk Douglas became a target for a drunkard in a bar who 'd seen Douglas as the boxer in Champion , Kirk merely slammed his hand on the bar and shouted , ‘ Anyone in this bar can lick me in a fight , ’ and the drunkard backed off . |
| 5 | On one of his visits to Beckenham , Pearson told him about a little girl neighbour , a Downs Syndrome child , who loved seeing Kenneth Williams in films or on television . |
| 6 | Carol , who went to see Jungle Book , has a daughter , so her child is not David , who ate the popcorn . |
| 7 | For actors and producers and carpenters there was a theatre and for people who liked seeing plays there was an auditorium . |
| 8 | A mood of relaxed and optimistic nostalgia was abroad , and gentler songs were sung by those who flocked to see Salad Days : |
| 9 | And he only found out from one of his operatives who had seen Bernard at Beirut Airport last night . ’ |
| 10 | Athelstan had talked to another friar who had seen Wallingford 's ingenious clock , the wheels within it fixed as if by magic , which not only measured the hours but indicated the states and signs , the phases of the moon , the position of the sun , the planets and the heavens . |
| 11 | Colin Wallace , who had seen Lewis on the day he vanished , was charged with murder . |
| 12 | The discontent was brought into the capital by the arrival in 1932 of some 15 000 unemployed " Veterans " ( i.e. men who had seen army service in the First World War ) . |
| 13 | Having played little part in the August riots ( epitomised by the derisory slogan , ‘ IRA — I Ran Away ’ ) , old IRA men came out of retirement ( Rose , 1972 ) and ‘ there was a steady stream of recruits from young men who had seen houses and streets burnt down by Loyalist mobs and who 'd been unable to prevent them ’ ( Farrell , 1980:267 ) . |
| 14 | An agonising first nine years of life , this was a little boy who had seen things that little boys and little girls should never see . |
| 15 | This inquiry was from a third-year pupil who had seen Prestel demonstrated in the information skills course where there is an emphasis on career information and the pupils use the large collection of Career materials in the library . |
| 16 | Nicholson saw them around Sunset Strip and for a time they were joined by Elvis Presley , who had seen Rebel Without a Cause forty-four times and could speak Dean 's lines word perfect . |
| 17 | And in the Stop Hinkley Centre , Jill Sutcliffe , an experienced campaigner who had seen Luxulyan from the gantry head , was ready to encourage and advise the uncertain before they took the stage in front of the cold , piercing gazes of the lawyers and the Inspector . |
| 18 | The very title , Learning through Drama , pointed many teachers who had seen drama merely as a diversion offered in the name of self-awareness in a more positive direction . |
| 19 | He wondered who had seen Rose on her last day , and where ? |
| 20 | She did n't attach any importance to it at the time and it was only when she heard we were interested in anyone who had seen Garland between Saturday and Wednesday that she thought it worth mentioning . ’ |
| 21 | The last time I saw prisons like that was in northern Iraq , when the Kurds were knocking down doors and killing guards , freeing men and women who had seen daylight in years . |
| 22 | It also occurred to him that this precaution eliminated the likelihood of ever finding a witness who had seen Sandy arriving in her Jaguar at the bell tower close to dawn . |
| 23 | ‘ She 's the bird with the two Afghans , ’ said Arthur , who had seen pictures of the dogs in the papers . |
| 24 | They had only three or four NCOs who had seen action before , and 50 replacement troops had never fired a rifle before they reached Sparrow Force . |
| 25 | I mean there were there were still quite a lot of tenants who wanted to see police patrolling in twos and threes , through the complex . |
| 26 | Zeinab , who tended to see things in personal terms and who , having been brought up in her father 's house , had something of the great lady in her , took it into her head to protect her servants and rushed out into the street in a passion . |