Example sentences of "she had see a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had seen a horror film once about an archaeologist in Egypt . |
| 2 | She had seen a scene like that once , in a film about a prison island where convicts were dumped and left to fend fur themselves . |
| 3 | On other pages , she had seen a village of huts set in the lee of a bluff , where mothers — Italian mothers with babies on their laps — were sitting in the sun on chairs , just like at home . |
| 4 | She had seen a massacre . |
| 5 | And when she had seen a man 's shape she had thought for one wild moment that Mervyn or even John had called with flowers . |
| 6 | An hour or so ago , she had seen a stone of the right size and shape lying on the edge of a garden , and had put it into her pocket . |
| 7 | She had seen a phone in the big hall they called the vestibule . |
| 8 | She had said , her eyes glittering with simulated enthusiasm , that she could hardly wait to get to her cottage , and Betty had said wistfully that it seemed like years since she had seen a blade of grass ( which was silly in itself , because of what else were the lawns of Hyde Park composed ? ) ; so Lydia , unhinged with the shock of bereavement , and further undone by wine , had said she could come too . |
| 9 | She had seen a lot of Japanese kaiju eiga flatties as a child thanks to a quirk of her father 's , and had now been able to draw on her memories of them . |
| 10 | One day , she had seen a car screech to a stop and several men overpower a pedestrian and force him into their vehicle ; from a distance she had smelled the smoke of bonfires burning blacklisted books ; she had glimpsed the outline of a human body floating in the dark waters of the canal . |
| 11 | She had seen a leaflet about the YCs and thought that this would provide a good way of getting to know people . |
| 12 | Chesarynth felt conspicuous ; people around were staring at them , but it was the first time in her weary day 's travel that she had seen a box and it called to the echoes of firesong that the one on the Moon had left in her mind . |
| 13 | She was sure she had seen a hand in the drawer , a hand with little pink nails and a silver ring on one finger . |
| 14 | She had seen a woman ride from the dark woods , screaming her grief , her clay-streaked hair streaming ; the woman had ridden around the pyre . |
| 15 | Yeah , well Jackie she had see a speech therapist and she did have trouble pronouncing ca n't remember |