Example sentences of "she had see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carlie believed everyone was out to do her in , and she had disliked Mrs Mason , the foster mother , as soon as she had seen her standing in the doorway . |
| 2 | Emily knew that her beautiful daughter had a dozen friends at school , she had seen her walking down the street when classes were over , surrounded by other girls . |
| 3 | Artemis frowned , trying to remember where she had seen her before , and then she remembered . |
| 4 | She knew Gwen Evans only slightly ; she had seen her at the funeral , and previous to that a couple of times , but the memory stuck . |
| 5 | Rachaela thought of the day she had seen her in the snow , the day Emma had bowed out from their lives with urgent smiles . |
| 6 | She remembered because she had seen her drive off and it was unusual for ‘ a señora of her quality ’ to be driving herself with no companion . |
| 7 | Claudia looked at Dana 's angry face and knew that if Roman had proposed she would have told her , triumphantly , as soon as she had seen her , accident or no accident . |
| 8 | Thoroughly spoiled , her mama had said sadly , the last time she had seen her . |
| 9 | She had seen her , and now she wanted to go , before she gave in to an impulse and started asking her questions about Elaine . |
| 10 | She had seen me on television and remembered the skinny little boy , Linford Christie , who had asked her all those questions on a flight from Kingston twenty-one years earlier . |
| 11 | ‘ What if she had seen me ? ’ |
| 12 | She took the oath and swore she had seen me drunk . |
| 13 | The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat . |
| 14 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 15 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 16 | She had seen them on their expensive horses , swooping across country , confident in the saddle . |
| 17 | For the last few days she had seen them , not as her parents but as two hating individuals carrying on a private war behind screens . |
| 18 | Alice never spoke of him except casually but on the few occasions , like last night 's dinner party , when she had seen them together they seemed to have the intuitive mutual awareness , an instinctive response to the other 's needs , more typical of a long-standing successful marriage than of an apparently casual fraternal relationship . |
| 19 | ‘ She had seen them arm in arm one day , several years ago , ’ Jean says . |
| 20 | She had seen people die , she had seen them give birth , she had chopped them into little pieces : more significantly , with Charles she had achieved orgasm , which she had never managed with Edgar . |
| 21 | She had seen them around the hotel for the last five days . |
| 22 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |
| 23 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 24 | They had noticed and she had seen them notice . |
| 25 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 26 | He had looked older when she had seen him at St Petrock 's ; but he had been scowling then , and now he was looking quite friendly and interested — rather like James , who sat in front of them regarding them both with faithful brown eyes . |
| 27 | Apparently they had no friends , with the possible exception of Roger — and she had seen him stiffen slightly when referred to as ‘ old Rodge ’ . |
| 28 | He looked like an old man suddenly and she realised how he had aged since she had seen him last . |
| 29 | Allen had been interested in the sack ; she had seen him stooping where the sack was hidden and he had been doing something with it . |
| 30 | It was a year now since she had seen him , and he was more handsome than ever . |