Example sentences of "i had see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only occasions on which I had seen them in operation they had failed lamentably . |
| 2 | ‘ I had seen them live and thought that they had an energy . |
| 3 | I had seen them in Kano clutching their swords as they slept in shop doorways where they were employed as night-watchmen . |
| 4 | The Hurricanes were to land at Hal Far aerodrome and I circled that aerodrome until I had seen them all land safely . |
| 5 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 6 | I had seen them together , arm-in-arm , taking their mutual attraction for a walk . |
| 7 | It was two and a half years since I had seen them and it gave me a lot of hope just to know that they were still in good shape , although they both looked much older . |
| 8 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 9 | She did n't realise , you see , that I had followed them , that I had seen them here together — and knew what they were planning . |
| 10 | It was the first time I had seen her in a pale colour — a light grey dress which made her seem shadowy . |
| 11 | I had n't noticed this picture much while she was alive , but now she was dead it seemed as if her eyes sparkled with the same vitality that they had appeared to possess when I had seen her lying cold on her straw mattress a few days earlier . |
| 12 | I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life . |
| 13 | ( Looking at her , I was often reminded of the famous Lina Cavalieri as I had seen her in photographs . |
| 14 | I had seen her ruffle his hair as though he were a little boy . |
| 15 | This was the first time I had seen her exercise her charm . |
| 16 | This animal had begun to grunt and go off her milk two days ago and when I had seen her yesterday I had flirted from one possibility to the other . |
| 17 | I had seen her before somewhere . |
| 18 | After I had seen her , I visited the church and found on the altar a candle bearing the arms of the Cathedral on its base . |
| 19 | Believe me , if I had seen her in any other place , I would have dismissed her as a witch from a mummer 's play . |
| 20 | Although in various posts , especially as Foreign Secretary , I had seen her not infrequently , yet this was the beginning of a quite different relationship . |
| 21 | ‘ Nicola was happier than I had seen her for months , ’ he said . |
| 22 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
| 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 | One afternoon I had seen him painfully sewing on a shirt-button . |
| 25 | This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures . |
| 26 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |
| 27 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 28 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
| 29 | I had never met the head of governors , Dr Arnold Barton , though I had seen him at several functions , a thin , tall , stern-faced , lantern-jawed streak of a man who rarely seemed to smile . |
| 30 | I had seen him around , frequently . |