Example sentences of "had seen a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody he had questioned had seen a second piper . |
| 2 | They went two stops to where Alice had seen a long low bridge along a main road over railway lines . |
| 3 | I read the reports of interviews the police had had with people who had been near the river at Chiswick , Barnes , and Hammersmith , on the night of June 5 — nobody had seen a drunk being assisted from a car , or a heavy bundle being carried towards a boat . |
| 4 | Cuzco had seen a similar burgeoning . |
| 5 | And they started that and they were sent out to this big villa and er that was the first time I had seen a continental headboard and er we could n't understand what it was you know . |
| 6 | While Stok was talking I had seen a familiar figure enter the door . |
| 7 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 8 | I waded out , concentrating on casting towards the weeds , where I had seen a good fish rise , when a glint of white under the water caught my eye . |
| 9 | His educational opportunities had been considerable and he had seen a good deal of Russian government from the inside . |
| 10 | Leeds should have gone on to pile up a big score but after Wallace had seen a close-range shot blocked by Coton and Gary McAllister 's lob was cleared off the line by Kernaghan , the tide turned . |
| 11 | They had seen a tiny marble-topped table in the kitchen , big enough for one person to eat at , perhaps two at a squash . |
| 12 | The agreement was a diplomatic success for China , which had seen a sharp reduction in its contacts with Western countries since the Tiananmen square massacre of June 1989 [ see pp. 36720-22 ] . |
| 13 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 14 | He watched the young man 's face , now set in the sort of bored , practised , professional expression Grout had seen a hundred times before . |
| 15 | Her teacher had seen a small notice about a charity in Russia which was looking for hosts for children from the affected regions and had contacted a friend , originally from Russia , who helped investigate the charity . |
| 16 | There was another story about a blind mother , whose son did not return after the battle ; she wept when he did not return , and asked the survivors if they had seen a young and lovely boy lying slain , dressed in delicately embroidered garments of fine silk , and the survivors said No , they had seen no boy , but they had seen a great bearded man dead , and he had worn tied about his waist strange garments , torn and faded and old , which had once been embroidered with flowers . |
| 17 | From what Seb had seen of her body — and he had seen a great deal — he suspected it was not far from the truth . |
| 18 | There was another story about a blind mother , whose son did not return after the battle ; she wept when he did not return , and asked the survivors if they had seen a young and lovely boy lying slain , dressed in delicately embroidered garments of fine silk , and the survivors said No , they had seen no boy , but they had seen a great bearded man dead , and he had worn tied about his waist strange garments , torn and faded and old , which had once been embroidered with flowers . |
| 19 | The young policeman from Bromley reported that he had seen a young couple whose description matched the wanted pair and they had gone towards the pier . |
| 20 | He had lived outwith Scotland for only 5 years but during that time he had travelled further by land and had seen a greater number of interesting places than most people do in a lifetime . |
| 21 | He had seen a possible solution , a way in which the conflicting aspects of the case might be reconciled . |
| 22 | Matthew Clarke , QC , for TV Licensing , part of the Post Office , maintained that two officers who had called at Mr Guest 's house had genuinely believed that they had seen a flickering light . |
| 23 | In Spain the struggle over the succession in 1702–13 had seen a prolonged effort by Catalonia and much of Aragon to throw off Castilian rule , an effort which drove them to support the Habsburg Archduke Charles against the eventually victorious Bourbon claimant to the throne , Philip V , grandson of Louis XIV . |
| 24 | In the pre-campaign week only 56 per cent had seen a recent opinion poll but this rose to 72 per cent in the first fortnight of the campaign and 77 per cent in the second . |
| 25 | The late seventeenth century had seen a new departure in philosophic enquiry ; philosophers abandoned metaphysical speculations and tried to pursue their studies in a scientific spirit . |
| 26 | She told the audience how she had seen a new state-of-the-art ambulance which was only for use by private patients but staffed and paid for by the NHS . |
| 27 | Henry had tried to tempt him into making a racist statement by announcing that he had seen a black person outside the window two weeks ago , but all the constable had said was ‘ You do n't see many coloureds in this part of Wimbledon . ’ |
| 28 | He had seen a thoughtful look in her eyes . |
| 29 | Just in front of me I had seen a large shell-crater , an old one . |
| 30 | He was familiar with Pound 's writing on Japanese drama , and had been impressed by the first performance of At the Hawk 's Well when he had seen a well-known Japanese dancer take the role of the hawk . |