Example sentences of "had seen [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hurricanes were to land at Hal Far aerodrome and I circled that aerodrome until I had seen them all land safely . |
| 2 | He had seen them all before . |
| 3 | Dr Neil had seen her few poor items of food decently arranged upon a napkin in the bottom of the basket , and there seemed little doubt that she was actually living in the district — although why he could not imagine . |
| 4 | And before that , she had seen him several times . |
| 5 | She slung the milk saucepan casually on top of the other unwashed dishes in the sink , unbothered now by the mess , aware that Rachel had seen it all last night and had said nothing . |
| 6 | Brian , a twenty-year-old draughtsman , had seen it all before , but it was the first time for Jane , his nineteen-year-old wife , whose daytime job is as a telephonist . |
| 7 | He was used to being ridden do the same stretch of road several times a week , and he had seen it all before . |
| 8 | ‘ They had seen it all before . ’ |
| 9 | She had seen it all before — last night 's high spirits turned to this morning 's hangover , last night 's gay blades to green-faced ghosts , last night 's belles of the ball to tousled tarts with smudged lipstick and laddered tights . |
| 10 | SDLP deputy leader Seamus Mallon said he thought he had seen it all but the hospital bombing had broken ‘ every precept of human compassion and morality ’ . |
| 11 | Oh she knew , she had seen it all . |
| 12 | He was eighty ; he had occupied this patch since he was a boy and he had seen it all : drunks , thieves , prostitutes . |
| 13 | He knew what would happen to him , because he had seen it all before . |
| 14 | We 'll stay put in old West Ken , ’ but Oliver had seen it all , and I came to America the first time on May 25th . |
| 15 | His son , Li Yuan , had seen it all five years before , in those first few days after he had been told the secret of their world — the Great Lie upon which everything was built . |
| 16 | The cream stucco on the houses — the imposing pillared porches with their black-and-white tiled steps ; she felt as if she had seen it all before in a dream . |
| 17 | She did not even realize her hair had come down and that she had lost her hat until she found herself leaning against a wall somewhere on the other side of St Jude 's Passage , her lungs bursting , her temples and her pulses hammering out their distress , her whole appearance wild and dishevelled and attracting not the least attention in that place which-no matter what might have befallen her — had seen it all before . |
| 18 | He had seen it all , of course . |
| 19 | In paying my respects and tribute to the bereaved of the two soldiers and the young man killed , I am tempted to say that I thought that I had seen it all . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Her final rotation had been on the emergency ward , and she had seen it all . |
| 22 | He surveyed the encompassing scene in the cool , calm and collected manner of someone who had seen it all before . |
| 23 | She had seen it that morning , black and sleek , leaving hardly a ripple behind it , slipping silently away on the morning tide . |
| 24 | The ticket collector had seen it many times and would see it many times more before the railways returned to normal . |