Example sentences of "had see [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood where she had seen Scathach in the story , his face now indistinguishable from the young man with whom she travelled . |
| 2 | He told them that none of the servants had seen Putt since the forest ‘ accident ’ . |
| 3 | From the amount of iron signals and other factors it would soon be possible to determine if the land had seen habitation in the past . |
| 4 | The man who had offered the seat had seen Ianthe as a tall fragile-looking woman in a pretty blue hat that matched her eyes . |
| 5 | Last year , though , a group led by Eric Norman at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in California declared that it had seen evidence for a 17 keV neutrino in radioactive decays of carbon-14 . |
| 6 | At that time the observatory was housed in some rather dilapidated wooden huts which had seen service with the Royal Navy during the war , and these were later replaced by a fine purpose-built building which offered much better accommodation and laboratory facilities . |
| 7 | He had seen service in the Boer War and the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 in China before service on the Royal Yacht during King Edward VII 's reign . |
| 8 | Not all the demobilized troops had seen service in the immediate European war zone . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The former Today owner said he had seen documentation from Scottish financial institutions which put Knighton 's personal net worth at ‘ around £3m ’ , and added : ‘ I think he should now step aside and let somebody in who has the interests of the club at heart . ’ |
| 11 | One woman was prepared to swear she had seen Sellotape on the back of Pike 's neck . |
| 12 | ‘ SHe ca n't just have gone ! ’ she shouted in a deep , masculine voice , in response to her officers , discovery that no one had seen Crevecoeur since late afternoon , and certainly not in the act of leaving the building . |
| 13 | The domestic medicine of the eighteenth century had seen disease as an imbalance of humours , with the body a system of interrelated organs and parts . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Today he had seen violence at first hand . |
| 16 | She had seen salvation for him in McAllister , that was for sure , and if Neil was more doubtful , about that and about her , with Havvie 's hateful words still ringing in his head , and his memory of her tortured face growing the more painful whenever he recalled it , the passing of time only accentuated the agony of his loss . |
| 17 | And he had seen hatred in those eyes . |
| 18 | She had seen mention of it on a newspaper placard earlier that morning . |
| 19 | The early part of 1992 had seen controversy within the government over policy and the government 's composition . |
| 20 | He wondered who had seen Rose on her last day , and where ? |
| 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 | But several witnesses had seen Orlick in town all evening . |
| 23 | Fred and Sophy , though they were only two and three years younger , and though they had seen mamma in her coffin , seemed to themselves to be looking at some strange show . |
| 24 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 25 | Several times I had seen Gwenellen with that barrier down , but never Aline . |
| 26 | ‘ Gentleman , Jim Almonds , immensely tall and a little less boisterous than some of the others , had seen action at Tobruk together with Pat Riley and Jock Lewes . |
| 27 | Cumberland was four months younger than Prince Charles , though , like him , he had seen action at the age of 13 . |
| 28 | At Homestead they were guests of the 482 Tactical Fighter Wing which recently had seen action in the Gulg , and It was here that each was given a certificate making them Honorary F-16 Fighter Pilots . |
| 29 | No.4 Troop had caught a section of German defenders early in the battle as they ran to their alarm posts , but other Germans , many of whom had seen action in Norway in 1940 , tenaciously defended the strongpoints including the improvised fortifications of the Ulvesund Hotel . |
| 30 | Haig had seen action in the Sudan in 1898 and at the Battle of Omdurman , where he served with the Egyptian cavalry . |