Example sentences of "he have seen a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has seen a certain facility in my work for grading and assembling the facts . |
| 2 | He 'd seen a hundred funerals . |
| 3 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
| 4 | Tonight , only a few minutes earlier , he 'd been following handwritten signs down a service passageway to the toilets when , for one brief half-second , he 'd seen a local councillor emerging through the doorway with the head of a pig on his shoulders . |
| 5 | His educational opportunities had been considerable and he had seen a good deal of Russian government from the inside . |
| 6 | He had seen a thoughtful look in her eyes . |
| 7 | From what Seb had seen of her body — and he had seen a great deal — he suspected it was not far from the truth . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | He had seen a possible solution , a way in which the conflicting aspects of the case might be reconciled . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had seen a few curtains moving in neighbouring houses . |
| 13 | In front of them , about twenty yards away , he had seen a barbed-wire fence some three feet high which an old corporal told him had already cost a thousand lives of those who had done nothing more than erect it . |
| 14 | He was familiar with Pound 's writing on Japanese drama , and had been impressed by the first performance of At the Hawk 's Well when he had seen a well-known Japanese dancer take the role of the hawk . |
| 15 | And he says there was sixty , he says , he says he 's seen a hundred horses standing to get shod on a morning . |