Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] he [vb past] see [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry had tried to tempt him into making a racist statement by announcing that he had seen a black person outside the window two weeks ago , but all the constable had said was ‘ You do n't see many coloureds in this part of Wimbledon . ’ |
| 2 | They encountered no opposition though Ranulf maintained that he had seen a rider watching them as they crossed the bridge at Dalmeny . |
| 3 | The young policeman from Bromley reported that he had seen a young couple whose description matched the wanted pair and they had gone towards the pier . |
| 4 | ‘ I wonder what the Reverend Henry Solly would have said if he had seen the tremendous progress made by the Union over the past few years . ’ |
| 5 | James Tomlinson could not and still does not believe that he imagined seeing the mysterious passenger . |
| 6 | It stated that he had seen an advertisement in the papers asking for designs for the redevelopment of the whole area between Downing Street and Great George Street , yet Hall knew the Cabinet had decided against this large scheme and that only the purchase of the Fludyer Street area would be completed . |
| 7 | Dr Gerard fought back , by saying that he had seen a letter from Warburton to the printer , complaining that one half of Scotland 's clergy were fanatics , and the other half were infidels , but Johnson still gainsaid him ; Warburton , he believed , wrote as he spoke — without thinking ; ‘ Sir , the very worst way of being intimate , is by scribbling . ’ |
| 8 | There would be no reason for the trunk to be disturbed , and if Carson decided that he wanted to see the other diaries it would be a simple matter to get hold of them . |
| 9 | They were addressed to people like the manager of the Ritz Hotel — asking if he had seen a handbag ‘ she ’ had left during a brief stay . |
| 10 | Those had been her words , and if she was being exact , they would mean that he had seen the icebound vessel from the air , exactly as Sunderby had seen it . |
| 11 | Mann stressed that he wished to see a solution based on substantial autonomy given to Punjab , within the framework of the Indian Constitution , but without recourse to an independent state . |
| 12 | He touched her eyes , her mouth , her nose , and Tallis understood that he had seen the hints of the face within the wood . |
| 13 | Ahmed had come from that dizzy town to boast that he had seen a bad strange girl leaving Marie Claire 's house and had shouted and thrown stones at her . |
| 14 | As part of the process of opening up to the West , Kim used the occasion to give an interview to the Washington Times in which he called for improved relations with the USA and said that he wished to see a US embassy established in the capital , Pyongyang , " as quickly as possible " . |
| 15 | One day , Jimmy Coutts cycled in to work ( he ‘ lived out ’ with his wife and young family in a village near Cambridge ) , and said that he had seen a telegraph boy delivering a telegram at a house opposite his , where he knew the wife of one of the air crew officers at Oakington lived . |
| 16 | In the block somebody said that he had seen the whole incident . |
| 17 | He said that he had seen the girl and the hounds running close behind her . |
| 18 | But he became weary of his creation and with Doctor Dolittle in the Moon ( 1928 ) he hoped that he had seen the end of his hero . |
| 19 | He later went on to say that he had seen the same man in the vicinity about 5.30 to 6.00 , and that he seemed to be heading for the Oliver 's shop . |
| 20 | At his trial in December , Eamonn Melaugh , a prominent Derry republican , testified that he had seen a demonstrator struck in the groin . |
| 21 | The landlord , God rest him — the fellow has since died — suddenly spoke up , declaring that he had seen the ghost of Sir Bartholomew Burghgesh . |