Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been seen boarding the street-car with Joey still asking — ‘ Where 's Noreen ? ’ |
| 2 | If I 'd been seen popping in and out of Ramillies Drive , tongues would inevitably have begun to wag . |
| 3 | That was pretty stupid , because not only was he on the list of residents , but he 'd been seen at mealtimes by several of the other members . |
| 4 | Mr Rowse refused to see Rhoda any more because she 'd been seen talking to Young Catholics Against Witchcraft . |
| 5 | She 'd been seen . |
| 6 | Later today the body was identified as that of a 23 year old man from Cheltenham , who 'd been seen at the race course last night . |
| 7 | The last time he 'd been seen was in a fight outside a pub in Carshalton , just ten miles from where the body was found . |
| 8 | The last time he 'd been seen was in a fight outside a pub in Carshalton , ten miles from where the body was found . |
| 9 | To stir up mischief , no doubt , and to eye Jean Bruce , the blacksmith 's daughter — they had been seen strolling about in the gloaming more than once , laughing quietly together and holding hands . |
| 10 | He had been seen earlier dodging the massed constabulary around the Winter Gardens , thrusting Labour press releases into the hands of reporters queuing for their body searches and radar scans . |
| 11 | Studies on the options are still going on , and the Government 's decision to increase BR 's profit targets had been seen as part of the ‘ fattening-up ’ process . |
| 12 | Studies on the options are still going on , and the Government 's decision to increase BR 's profit targets had been seen as part of the ‘ fattening-up ’ process . |
| 13 | It was alleged that a van ‘ full of foxes ’ had been seen . |
| 14 | She had been , it seemed , to endless dinners , parties and weddings on her own , she had been spotted at local cinemas with friends , sitting in the stalls alongside ordinary members of the public , and she had been seen on the town , at pop concerts , and in restaurants , with handsome young men . |
| 15 | Diana not only ostentatiously wore outfits that she had been seen in before — to knock a few criticisms on the head about the money she spent on her wardrobe — but she also seized the opportunity to kill off a few more misconceptions . |
| 16 | There was great relief in Croatia and Slovenia : bringing the court into play had been seen there ( probably correctly ) as a potential device for justifying an army intervention . |
| 17 | It was also sad that no English spinner had been seen throughout the rubber , and that both sides blatantly and cynically ignored the ruling about bowling 90 overs in a day , so that play just continued until the light faded every day of the series ; those two factors left many people fearful for the game 's future . |
| 18 | Yet both women brought a more intense and child-whorish eroticism to the screen than had been seen before , while retaining a suggestion of innocence at the heart of it . |
| 19 | A letter to a Front soldier from a citizen of Görlitz in late June or early July 1940 undoubtedly spoke for many in stating that , following the ‘ unimaginably great ’ events which had been seen each week in the newsreels , ‘ we will never be able to thank the Führer and brave army enough for sparing us at home the horrors of war ’ , and that an ‘ immensely great ’ future awaited Germany ‘ in the construction of Europe after the final victory ’ . |
| 20 | The foresters gave evidence that two townsmen of Colchester had been seen hunting in the forest , but had evaded attachment . |
| 21 | Once patients had been seen for an initial consultation , half were treated within five weeks and 80 per cent within six months , she added . |
| 22 | He rejected the FoE Scotland study as ‘ alarmist ’ , down-played damage to forests in West Germany as ‘ very small ’ and stated that ‘ no damage ’ had been seen in the UK . |
| 23 | He had been seen climbing down . |
| 24 | It was such a ‘ whisperer ’ who had informed Jack that men answering the brothers ' description had been seen drinking in an alehouse on Winkfield Plain , not five miles from Maidenhead , the day after the robbery . |
| 25 | They had heard that Shill had been seen with a local man , Johnny Turner , at the King 's Head Monday lunchtime . |
| 26 | Randolph Henry Ash 's Proserpine had been seen as a Victorian reflection of religious doubt , a meditation on the myths of Resurrection . |
| 27 | Their design was a radical departure from the traditional concept of a tramcar , and incorporated features of styling and comfort which had been seen only in motor-coaches of the day . |
| 28 | Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . |
| 29 | Nobody had been seen carrying the two large and heavy books out . |
| 30 | In August 1981 every piece of the city 's urban common carried a population of wall butterflies ( Lasiommosta megera ) , the first time this species had been seen north of the Tyne this century . |