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Example sentences for "having seen"

  • They would remain at Lourdes only a few hours; after hastening to the Grotto and the Basilica in seaside costumes, they would start off again, laughing, and well pleased at having seen it all.

  • Abbe Rose, anxious at having seen so little of him for a month past, had written, asking him to come to dinner, in order that they might have a quiet chat concerning their affairs.

  • The absurdity of this is manifest: for having loved or having seen is active; having been or having sat is neuter; and having been loved or having been seen is passive.

  • I also heard the General say that Bluecher, having seen everything in London, remarked with great earnestness, "Give me Ludgate Hill!

  • On the other hand, Messer-Grande might have said that, having seen me get out of my bed, he was sure that I had no weapons about me, and thus both of them would have got out of trouble.

  • Talking of hedges reminds me of having seen a box-hedge, just as I came out of Petworth, more than twelve feet broad, and about fifteen feet high.

  • We were much indebted to La Signora Grossetti, who had really shown us things that no former traveller could boast of having seen.

  • Having seen nothing I had not seen before, I have nothing to relate.

  • Johnson; but I felt my veneration for him in no degree lessened, by my having seen mullorum hominum mores et urbes[37].

  • Guy, who spoke to having seen a case of idiopathic tetanus in an omnibus conductor.

  • Having seen Cook, I left the room with Jones and Palmer.

  • As before they were sitting on opposite sides of the table, upon which was spread a packet of papers; some of them I recognized as having seen before.

  • About three days after this, just as I was about to start for Gravesend, having seen nothing of my brother since his letter, a hansom was driven to the door and Torrence alighted.

  • Yet not one of their witnesses would swear to having seen Henderson at Falkland.

  • Did I suppose, having seen it at dawn in the fall days when the sun still rises early, having seen it in winter twilight, fog-beset, that I knew it?

  • At least I know it better, having seen it under a clearing sky, when the cold wind sweeps it clean, and the air, crystalline, seems like a lens through which one looks and sees a revelation of new things.

  • When the trial was resumed on Monday morning, Detective Malley was again placed on the stand and swore to having seen Critchlow on the river bank with a gun in his hands and to have heard him called by name.

  • Many other witnesses were called to bear testimony to having seen Beatty in the mill at various times.

  • Pinkerton detectives identified Clifford and swore to having seen him in the forefront of the crowd that gathered to prevent the landing of the Pinkerton forces in the mill yard.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "having 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:
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