Example sentences of "[pron] he have seen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , Walpole , described in the same book ( p. 83 ) as someone who " thrived on gossip , and on playing at loo or at hazard with a duchess or two " , could very well have been a sufficiently astute observer of social mores to deduce that the first manifestations which he had seen of the new way of dressing constituted the beginning of a major trend . |
| 2 | Sir John Fastolf , involved in a long drawn-out lawsuit in Paris between 1432 and 1435 , could remind the court that he had been the first to jump into the sea when Henry V had come ashore in France in 1415 , and that the king had rewarded him with the grant of the first house which he had seen in France . |
| 3 | Apollinaire pointed out that Boccioni 's best works were those in which he came nearest to recent works by Picasso which he had seen in Paris . |
| 4 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |
| 5 | Even five years later a clergyman who came to a retreat which he conducted thought him the oddest sight , sartorially , which he had seen among academics . |
| 6 | The Doctor had bent to examine something he had seen on the dappled carpet beside the communications terminal . |
| 7 | Ned Sherrin thought the ideal actor for the role would be Crawford , whom he had seen in Come Blow Your Horn and Twelfth Night . |
| 8 | In developing the character of Frank Spencer from Raymond Allen 's scripts , he partly based it on a young man with bicycle clips whom he had seen in Battersea . |
| 9 | He also said that the envelope the Brownie had kindly picked up had dropped from the Earl 's pocket without being noticed by him , and that as the Brownie was so kind as to share her sweets with him the Earl was sending a tin of his own , which he felt sure from what he had seen of this Brownie would find their way into the mouths of all the other Brownies in the Pack too . |
| 10 | As an ex-financial journalist , Lawson had opinions about the limitations of trial by jury formed by what he had seen of financial scandals when working as a City Editor . |
| 11 | It was not until fifty years after the great fire which had swept it all away that Eadmer wrote this description of what he had seen as a small boy of about seven . |
| 12 | Until his family was safe , he had declined to make any formal statement , but now he went with them to the American Embassy and swore out an affidavit about what he had seen as a DIA agent assigned to DEA NARCOG , Nicosia . |
| 13 | Fairley was said to be ‘ merely carrying out repetitive actions , trying to imitate what he had seen on the video screen ’ . |
| 14 | Auguste enquired , puzzled , remembering what he had seen before when the lady puppet was attacked and hoping there would be no repetition . |
| 15 | Saad 's family rushed to try and have their revenge on the witness who had announced the news like someone possessed , and who cared less about Saad 's death than about convincing the whole community of what he had seen in the hut that burning noonday . |
| 16 | He sent her some of his notes of what he had seen in their walks and frequently let her see his ‘ papers ’ before they were copied out for the editors . |
| 17 | Delaney averted his gaze from her , afraid of what he had seen in her eyes . |
| 18 | He had come to Addis Ababa as correspondent for the Graphic and he later made use of the occasion to parody what he had seen in Black Mischief and other books . |
| 19 | On return from a ten-day visit to the five republics of former Yugoslavia , Dr Hiroshi Nakajima , WHO Director-General , was visibly appalled by what he had seen in Bosnia-Herzegovina particularly the destruction of some 260 hospitals and the gravity of the wounds caused by the high-velocity bullets . |
| 20 | They 'd no internal passports in this tiny country , but from what he 'd seen of this building they had computers the like of which the Leningrad Militia could only dream about . |
| 21 | Dana had embraced the dancing and singing lessons with fervour , but Claudia , trailing behind her sister , had been bored to tears by them , and after a time her father had put an end to what he 'd seen as a waste of his money and Claudia 's time . |
| 22 | But he wanted to represent a protean form now , however impossible ; wanted to find a way to fix what he 'd seen at the door of his hotel room , when Pie'oh'pah 's many faces had been shuffled in front of him like cards in an illusionist 's deck . |
| 23 | ‘ I wish I knew , ’ Gregson said wearily , and repeated what he 'd seen at Whitely . |
| 24 | Marron told police he 'd been copying what he 'd seen on a pornographic video : Judge Paul Clark said it showed how harmful such videos were . |
| 25 | When he observes the actual performance he may find it difficult to associate what he has seen with what he had been led to expect . |
| 26 | And what makes his analysis so attractive is the fact that he has resolutely turned his back on the temptations to reduce what he has seen to some supposedly more fundamental principle of animal behaviour . |