Example sentences of "[conj] he had seen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I told you , ’ said Sally-Anne , exasperated by his probing , annoyed that he had seen through her whoppers . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It was the same burned face that he had seen behind the wheel of that exploded car in the office-block forecourt . |
| 6 | There had been two Argentine naval officers , one on the tug and the other on the Santa Maria , and he had seen at least six crew , but he did not know the names of any of them . |
| 7 | He spent hours with the local clergyman who had his own private store of medicines such as Epsom salts , gentian , laudanum , and quantities of port which he believed built up the strength , and he had seen for himself how garlic had done wonders for children with whooping cough . |
| 8 | Best to put off even thought until he had seen for himself the place where murder had been done , and the victim who had suffered it . |
| 9 | He had seen to her as he had seen to her mother . |