Example sentences of "[pron] had seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had seen her face before , but only in silhouette , anonymous , as she spoke out about the inhuman conditions of political prisoners in Morocco 's forgotten dungeons . |
| 2 | Back in Italy , after his departure from Auschwitz and his wanderings through Europe , he found that ‘ the things I had seen and suffered were burning inside of me ’ , and that he wanted to write about them . |
| 3 | because I had seen it painted twice |
| 4 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 5 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 6 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
| 7 | The interior was just as I expected from the books I had seen at school . |
| 8 | Earlier that evening we were visited by Brigadier Mills Roberts , accompanied by several senior Officers , whom I had seen on occasion at Petworth in Sussex ( Commando Group Headquarters ) . |
| 9 | Though the film was running I had seen no staff in the cinema for hours . |
| 10 | There was the same combination that I had seen before : collected in groups that seemed threatening because you were not part of them , and between these bright areas black , empty alleys full of odd forebodings . |
| 11 | When I arrived in the airport I had seen the local paper which reported the sighting of one near Isafjördur . |
| 12 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |
| 13 | Was I sure I had seen it at all ? |
| 14 | Of course , it was a very nice idea , but I had seen what the Germans were doing with colour television . |
| 15 | I did n't recommend it because I had seen what it had done to sensitive artists like Scott Walker . |
| 16 | The children were very much like the angels of resurrection which I had seen over tombs . |
| 17 | One beautiful face in a shop brought into my mind an undraped statue I had seen somewhere and we blushed together . |
| 18 | The only occasions on which I had seen them in operation they had failed lamentably . |
| 19 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 20 | When the bus started , they all crossed themselves , as I had seen nuns do in Ireland when setting out on a journey , however short . |
| 21 | At least I had seen no others . |
| 22 | The person I had seen could have not the slightest interest in a beat-up old poet like me . |
| 23 | I remembered the last time I had seen him , on the half-landing on the stairs , and how we looked at one another — as if he had sensed it would be our last encounter — and had shaken hands and said goodbye . |
| 24 | Once I had seen a rabbit snare fixed between the palings of a fence , and now my mind 's eye saw a rabbit hopping slowly towards this remembered snare as if hypnotized , and the rabbit was me . |
| 25 | Although upright and looking much younger than her years , she seemed to have changed a great deal from when I had seen her last , and she wore a slightly dazed expression ( as well she might , I told myself , considering her age and the difficulty of her situation ) . |
| 26 | I had seen that look somewhere before , and memory suggested two pictures : one was from an old history book and showed Marie Antoinette on her way to the guillotine — ‘ The Queen went forth , stately and calm ’ ; , the other ( ‘ Tales from over the Border ’ ) showed a beautiful girl withdrawing modestly while a Highland chief petitioned her father for her hand in marriage . |
| 27 | I thought of Aunt Louise as I had seen her last , sitting upright in her plastic-covered armchair . |
| 28 | When from the kitchen window I had seen my brother-in-law the councillor walking slowly down the path arm-in-arm with Mrs McLaren , it was the strangest , the most unlikely sight I could possibly have imagined . |
| 29 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 30 | Then I hurried down to look at the ruins I had seen earlier , before the next onslaught of rough weather could begin . |