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Example sentences for "had seen"

  • She saw me as I had seen my own visitant; she pulled up short as I had done; I gave her something of the shock that I had received.

  • We had gone over and over every feature of what I had seen.

  • I seemed at any rate, for an instant, to see their evocation of her as distinctly as I had seen her by the pond; and I brought out with decision: "It must have been also what SHE wished!

  • I had not suspected in advance that her comfortable face would pull me up, and I somehow measured the importance of what I had seen by my thus finding myself hesitate to mention it.

  • Thomas claimed it was Mr. Bailey, whom he had seen on the foot-path, and who owned the pearl cuff-link.

  • When I could hold a lighted candle in the opening, I saw precisely what I had seen on the other side of the chimney--a space between the true wall and the false one, possibly seven feet long and about three feet wide.

  • If he had seen him he would have spoken of it.

  • When I spoke of the figure Liddy and I had seen on the porch through the card-room window Friday night, Halsey sauntered into the darkened room, and together we stood there, much as Liddy and I had done that other night.

  • He had seen me fall before the dyryth, and then he had been seized by a number of the ape-creatures and borne through the tree tops to their village.

  • In fact we had seen no artificial light or sign of fire since we had entered Pellucidar.

  • Still neither could I reconcile the things which I had seen to a belief that I was still in the world of my birth.

  • He had seen Charity at once, and his glance passed slowly from her to Harney, whose arm was still about her.

  • He was no longer listening to her, he was only looking at her, with the passionate absorbed expression she had seen in his eyes after they had kissed on the stand at Nettleton.

  • Day grew apace, and by then they were under the barn-gable which he had seen aloof he saw the other roofs of the grange and heard the bleating of sheep.

  • Maenck was a coward, and he had seen murder in the eyes of the man rushing upon him.

  • Likely indeed that he would ever forget his, Barney's, face, though he had seen it but once without the red beard that had so added to Barney's likeness to the king.

  • It was evident that he half recognized the face of the newcomer as one he had seen before.

  • And he ran and told Helaman all the things which he had seen, and heard, and done.

  • Nephi 1:7 7 And it came to pass that he returned to his own house at Jerusalem; and he cast himself upon his bed, being overcome with the Spirit and the things which he had seen.

  • The costume was similar to that which we had seen on all the women, though some of them, those working in the fields, glimpsed by our glasses when we first flew over, wore only the first two.

  • He swung his golden pince-nez in his right hand as he walked, and bent forward with a peering, blinking expression, which was somehow suggestive of the dark and complex cases through which he had seen.

  • How bent and weak and old he seemed--ten years older at the least than when first I had seen him!

  • She was quite close before he had seen her--thirty yards at the utmost.

  • He remembered what she had said to him the first night he had seen her.

  • He had seen it before in the eyes of other women and it troubled him.

  • He had seen him go past in his buckboard.

  • Reality was what he longed for, things that he had seen.

  • He wore his cassock now, and was far more the churchman in appearance than when Vanamee and Presley had seen him on a former occasion.

  • Osterman solemnly asserted that he had seen a greaser sawn in two in a Nevada sawmill.

  • As I returned along the road I met Mr. Petulengro and one of his companions, who told me that they were bound for the public-house; whereupon I informed Jasper how I had seen in the stable the horse which we had admired at the fair.

  • I had seen enough of gypsying and tinkering to be convinced of that.

  • A name he had seen out of the car window came swiftly to him.

  • Oh, if she would only love him wholly--only throw her arms around him in the blissful spirit in which he had seen her in the little park in Chicago--how happy he would be!

  • There was a little picture of her on the wall, showing her arrayed in the little jacket he had first bought her--her face a little more wistful than he had seen it lately.

  • It had been several years since Minnie had seen Carrie, and in that time the latter's character had developed a few shades.

  • He had seen no one he knew at the Broadway Central.

  • He had long been an object of interest to the church, and to the ministers, as I had seen by the repeated visits and lengthy exhortations of the latter.

  • I could never tell him of anything, or point out anything that struck me as beautiful or powerful, but that he had seen something in Baltimore far surpassing it.

  • He returned to the camp and reported what he had seen.

  • Could it have been a slight quivering of the nostrils that he had seen, or was it mad fancy playing a trick on him?

  • He passed through this first room and on entering the second it was so dark that he could not see his hands before his face, so becoming scared, he hurriedly left the place, and returning home told what he had seen.

  • The grandmother went to the chief's tent and told what her grandson had seen.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "had seen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    had all; had anticipated; had called; had committed; had determined; had done; had felt; had happened; had lived; had lost; had never; had never seen before; had not; had not been able; had obtained; had plenty; had reason; had said; had she; had some; had spoken; had thought; had told; had written; little faith; must further