Example sentences of "had [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , I had the somewhat grisly T-shirt and track-suit bottoms which had gamely seen me through a two-hour run-through , but they were in a state and could probably have walked unaided to the BBC on their own . |
| 2 | Yet he had since seen Aycliffe and told him of his unaltered intention to come into possession of them by wedding her . |
| 3 | Hugo had never suffered fools gladly — Edouard , not a fool , and possessed of a quick and nimble mind had forgotten that side of his nature , which he , in any case , had rarely seen . |
| 4 | They had previously been kept in an 80 gallon tank where the owner had rarely seen them . |
| 5 | She had rarely seen him outside the context of the family . |
| 6 | Norwich had rarely seen such a large exhibition of contemporary art involving alternative art practices . |
| 7 | Corbett had rarely seen such beauty . |
| 8 | In all the previous months , I had rarely seen land , never wanted to . |
| 9 | It ushered in a period of expansion over the 1950s , 1960s and 1970s the like of which the world had rarely seen . |
| 10 | At Southwark in 1705 , the women took exception to the candidacy of a local Tory JP , a bachelor and renowned misogynist , who had once said " that he had rather see a Sow and Pigs , than a Woman and her Children " . |
| 11 | The man had been in the wood and had perhaps seen the animal cemetery . |
| 12 | He pulled the table closer to the fire and draped his cloak over it to dry , but his movements lacked the usual lithe , co-ordinated strength Isabel had hitherto seen in him , and she noticed that he was n't using his left arm at all . |
| 13 | The men went back and searched the trains but the man had disappeared ; all the men agreed the man had been there , they had all seen him , they were all completely baffled . |
| 14 | Gaitskell , Citrine , Self and Wilkinson had all seen earlier that , to be effective , the differential charge would have to be large : perhaps 1¼d . |
| 15 | I had only seen a wall there before , and now my heart leapt when I saw , through the Bride and the Bachelors , through the Milky Way and the Chariot and the Grinder and the Sieves - someone moving . |
| 16 | She had only seen him when she had climbed the wooden steps up to the promenade : he was out of sight of the kiosk , waiting across the road , almost hidden in the dark cave of an amusement arcade . |
| 17 | He had only seen them in books and wondered how something as light and puffy as steam could pull such heavy carriages . |
| 18 | had only seen it |
| 19 | I was really deeply moved as I had only seen such a thing before in religious pictures . |
| 20 | In fact , Jed had only seen Morton once before . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's the first time we 've been banned anywhere , ’ said Barry , adding that singer Michael Stipe had been involved in the production of the video and that the rest of the band had only seen it once . |
| 22 | Rufus had only seen it while eating partridge which had been winged instead of shot in the head and had nearly broken one of his teeth on the tiny ball of lead . |
| 23 | It was also a revelation to see the wildlife — birds and animals which I had only seen in Zoos were free for me to enjoy . |
| 24 | She had only seen one corpse in union blue . |
| 25 | It might have been transported from the South of France , one of those lush semi-palaces I had only seen in photos . |
| 26 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 27 | He had only seen my eyes . |
| 28 | She had only seen Johnny dressed in what she supposed must be the nineteen forties ' version of casual wear ; but , of course , when he was formally attired he would have worn starched collars with his shirt , detachable and fastened with one of the studs which she now held in her hand . |
| 29 | It was a world beyond my wildest dreams ; one I had only seen on celluloid in the cinema at Fontanellato . |
| 30 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |