Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] had seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only she had seen him come into the shop — but she always seemed to miss him . |
| 2 | But perhaps she had seen others at the tree tops , for she clattered her talons violently on the top of her cage , crashed down on to its concrete floor , her wings smashing against the branch that projected across her cage , and then lunged forward at the door of her cage , driven by an impulse that spoke of a terrible longing to be free . |
| 3 | Perhaps she had seen it happen while in this automatic state . |
| 4 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 5 | Obviously they had seen Carnelian before in this sanctum , though not in that eerie , invasive guise . |
| 6 | If only they had seen the correspondence that flowed to party chairmen from ’ Horrified of the Home Counties ’ when some of those Bills hit the deck ; one example was the correspondence from the lighthouse keepers association . |
| 7 | So he had seen fit to consider her feelings . |
| 8 | But nevertheless I had seen the Cabinet agenda getting more and more overflowing and , therefore , Cabinet decisions had to be taken quickly . |
| 9 | I was suddenly terrified , as if from a long distance away I had seen my family poised on the edge of a crumbling cliff , unaware and smiling . |
| 10 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 11 | Presumably she had seen nothing to deter her from taking a closer look . |
| 12 | I would have to take a taxi back to Sligo once I had seen the sights , for there was no return bus . |
| 13 | I knew at once I had seen its like recently . |
| 14 | A tyre like a truck 's loomed up a little way away in the gloom , but it was far more knobbly than any she had seen . |
| 15 | Or possibly she had seen nothing at all , and it was pure fantasy . |
| 16 | He was the biggest man in Polruan was Uncle Harry , a real giant of a man and once she had seen him knock a child over by mistake when all he had meant to do was cuff him playfully on the ear . |
| 17 | Melanie would be a nymph crowned with daisies once again ; he saw her as once she had seen herself . |
| 18 | The light in mid-river was silver , and the current stronger than any we had seen in Egypt . |
| 19 | He quickened his flight as he saw ahead in the far distance , perhaps twenty miles on , the blue rising of real hills — ground higher than any he had seen so far . |
| 20 | In his deliberations whether to sell or keep on the mill as a holiday home he had seen it as a refuge from London , eccentric and remote , providing a temporary escape from the demands of his job and the pressures of success . |
| 21 | ‘ Giles rang up , ’ his daughter volunteered , and he was uncomfortably reminded by something in her voice that Giles Hawick was one of the men Jennifer had n't been able to hang on to — or not once he had seen Angela . |
| 22 | A minute later she had seen the girl slowly walking along the aisle , guidebook in hand , the man strolling behind her carefully distanced . |
| 23 | Four weeks later she had seen him in the cinema queue with another girl , and had perceived that her day was over ; in between , she had known disorientation and obsession , diagnosed her trouble , and felt exhilarated . |
| 24 | Probably she had seen that exhibition Adrian and Carol were putting on for everyone 's benefit . |
| 25 | I felt embarrassed : clearly we had seen more of Flora at this time than I remembered . |
| 26 | Half an hour later they had seen the cafe . |
| 27 | How often I had seen that pinching of the skin ! |
| 28 | So far she had seen nothing but a normal barn — bales of hay , racks of apples , a few garden tools — but now she found herself forced into the other side of the top floor and it was certainly different , so different in fact that as Alain released her she walked forward of her own volition . |
| 29 | She wondered which part of the house Fernando and Maria Luisa occupied , which were their own personal quarters , because so far she had seen nothing that indicated that a happy couple occupied the place . |
| 30 | 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 . |