Example sentences of "[conj] he had seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went into the downstairs room where he had seen Marcus through the window . |
| 2 | He unfolded it carefully , took a stub of pencil from his ammunition pouch , and marked a cross where he had seen the enemy cavalry . |
| 3 | She belongs , surely , where he had seen her a thousand times as he came out of Happy Homes , just above the end pinnacle of the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel . |
| 4 | The girls were still there , standing where he had seen them earlier . |
| 5 | Or he had seen and could n't believe it . |
| 6 | Albert Speer , the ambitious , calculating , and rational power technician who had climbed to the top of the ladder , and who distanced himself most clearly from Hitler at Nuremberg and in his memoirs , admitted that he had seen in the Führer something approaching ‘ a hero of an ancient saga ’ and , after the victory in France , as ‘ one of the greatest figures in German history ’ . |
| 7 | The man standing by my side said that he had seen them behind the terminal . |
| 8 | The warrior Wottolen protested in vain to Looking Glass that he had seen a vision of disaster at this place . |
| 9 | He said that they were professional witnesses from London , explaining that , if a prosecution lawyer was having difficulty in obtaining a conviction , he would handsomely reward a witness who would state under oath that he had seen the crime committed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was strange , strange and ominous , that he had seen her before , outside the University last week . |
| 12 | Paddy Kennedy , an RLP councillor who was himself taken to hospital with suspected broken ribs , said that he had seen Fitt fall to the ground and he had appeared to be on his knees when he was struck by a baton . |
| 13 | At his trial in December , Eamonn Melaugh , a prominent Derry republican , testified that he had seen a demonstrator struck in the groin . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | In the block somebody said that he had seen the whole incident . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This observation led him to his third important realization , namely , that the tension that he had seen in his neck was causing other tensions throughout his whole structure . |
| 19 | They encountered no opposition though Ranulf maintained that he had seen a rider watching them as they crossed the bridge at Dalmeny . |
| 20 | She knew that he had seen Allen and that Allen was several yards from his bow . |
| 21 | It was a relief ; although again , naturally , the subject of Katelina van Borselen arose , and he had to explain , again , that he had seen her last in good health leaving Rhodes . |
| 22 | After the service , when everyone had filed outside , Willie looked around for the strange curly-haired boy that he had seen at the Post Office . |
| 23 | He began our interview by mentioning that he had seen statistics about sexual abuse reported in a recent magazine article . |
| 24 | Paul did not mention that he had seen John Howie from the gallery of Savill 's . |
| 25 | A man called Slade made a statement that he had seen Cooper twice in London on the day of the murder , indeed had had a cup of tea with him in a café . |
| 26 | Although it was getting dusk , he was certain that he had seen someone or something fall from the bridge . |
| 27 | The driver of one of the vehicles told police afterwards that he had seen Mr Adams , who lived in Witney , ahead of him , but Mr Reid said Clarke clearly failed to notice him , even though Mr Adams had switched on both his front and rear bicycle lights . |
| 28 | As the cameras and microphones were trained on him , he told the colonel that HE had seen no evidence of stone-throwing . |
| 29 | Not that he had seen much . |
| 30 | Oliver wondered how long that would take , and remained silent all the way back to the shop , thinking about everything that he had seen and heard . |