Example sentences of "had [adv] seen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pulled the table closer to the fire and draped his cloak over it to dry , but his movements lacked the usual lithe , co-ordinated strength Isabel had hitherto seen in him , and she noticed that he was n't using his left arm at all . |
| 2 | It was a world beyond my wildest dreams ; one I had only seen on celluloid in the cinema at Fontanellato . |
| 3 | It was also a revelation to see the wildlife — birds and animals which I had only seen in Zoos were free for me to enjoy . |
| 4 | It might have been transported from the South of France , one of those lush semi-palaces I had only seen in photos . |
| 5 | Every time Dustin saw his name in block letters on the marquee of a movie house , he was assailed with thoughts of his own mortality , a subject that constantly obsessed him , especially as he had already seen into the abyss . |
| 6 | He had already seen to it that fodder had been stored in stone-built barns situated at strategic points on lower pastures . |
| 7 | A good deal of the historical footage I had already seen over the years and some of it , such as the dreadful footage of the Warsaw Ghetto , was only too familiar . |
| 8 | On transferring his official residence from Burgos to Madrid , in October , Franco " toured the Sierra de Guadarrama , looking for a place he had already seen during the war " in which he planned to locate his war memorial . |
| 9 | It was a reworking of the same materials apropos Hungary as I had already seen in Prague apropos Czechoslovakia . |
| 10 | Of this , comparatively little was from Walter Machin himself , and some of these Greg had already seen in the Sunday paper articles . |
| 11 | When he took the ale into the warm farmhouse living room and saw everyone standing around the crackling log fire with food and drinks in their hands , he thought again of what he had just seen through the kitchen window . |
| 12 | They were then asked to recall the story they had just seen in either sign ( deaf and bilinguals ) or in speech ( hearing people ) . |
| 13 | And that morning 's takings had trebled and brought her new custom , for he had always seen to it that he was shod well and had good small clothes and shirts . |
| 14 | Frequently a Georgian house which I had always seen from the road and considered to be all of one date , was revealed , when I came to knock on its door , to be purely a façade built on to a much earlier building . |
| 15 | There before him stood one of the tallest , thinnest men he had ever seen outside a circus . |
| 16 | Another sneeze dawned and he reached yet again for his handkerchief , an object which Milton felt was about as disgusting as anything he had ever seen outside the occasional severed head in a motorway accident . |
| 17 | Too many legs though , round luminous eyes , and more complicated mandibles than any arachnid Ace had ever seen on Earth . |
| 18 | The very sky smelt of frost though a sun bigger than she had ever seen on Mars still shone remote between gold-fringed clouds . |
| 19 | This happened to me in May this year when I walked into ‘ Pluggers ’ shop ( Wet Pet of Detroit ) and saw the most beautiful pair of Ornate Birchirs ( Polypterus ornatipinnis ) I had ever seen for sale . |
| 20 | She wore new black button-up boots and on her head was perched the largest black hat I had ever seen with a black bird on top . |
| 21 | The Crown Princess , the future High Queen , beautiful and untried , and more desirable than any woman Fergus had ever seen before or since . |
| 22 | He took them to Mahala Andrews , an expert in fossil fishes at the Chambers Street Museum to learn that these were specimens no-one had ever seen before and they included a species of fresh water shark . |
| 23 | The dockside was the busiest place Ruth had ever seen in her life . |
| 24 | He led her into the bedroom , which was glowing with an intense white light like nothing she had ever seen in England . |
| 25 | Standing beside Dennis was the best-looking man she had ever seen in her life . |
| 26 | In front of me sat the smartest and most alert looking person I had ever seen in my life . |
| 27 | Then he turned and went out , leaving Ellie to stare speechlessly at the most money she had ever seen in her life . |
| 28 | He was the best-looking boy she had ever seen in her life . |
| 29 | More diamonds than she had ever seen in her life . |
| 30 | They were certainly the ugliest animals I had ever seen in all my travels . |