Example sentences of "[vb infin] seen [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish you could 've seen them , ’ said the housekeeper , her arms akimbo , her plump face flushed with indignation . |
| 2 | But the thing is she must 've seen him . |
| 3 | You should 've seen me marching home . |
| 4 | Yeah I went and got it yesterday but they 'd had a break in and you should 've seen it they 'd smashed the front door , it were all smashed in . |
| 5 | Yes it might I 've seen it spelt both ways . |
| 6 | I would 've seen it last week though . |
| 7 | And er , and he thought he was all hard , right and he was walking , I know he 's a dog but he , he , he knows , you know what I mean , and he walked past the shop and the dog come out the shop you should 've seen my wisht up in my arms Could n't stop laughing . |
| 8 | My God , you should 've seen us … . ’ |
| 9 | You should 've seen us . |
| 10 | Of course , I realize today , the place I hid them in everybody must have known where they were cos I was small and having to reach , and the large ones must have seen they were there anyway , but er it did n't dawn on me then . |
| 11 | so it is erm something of a step forward , erm we 've had material in the past which you may have seen which was recorded from the telly , a couple of years ago in nineteen ninety |
| 12 | Clutterbuck was an architect manqué himself and would obviously have seen their pattern books , including the one from which this design derives : Chinese and Gothick Architecture Properly Ornamented . |
| 13 | You should have seen their faces ! |
| 14 | Dinah noticed that the garden was tidy and well weeded , and reserved her opinion of the scholarly pair until she should have seen their methods for herself . |
| 15 | In the past two years it has grown by more than 35 per cent , and anyone who put in £3,000 when it was launched , in April 1988 , will have seen their investment swell to £4,267 . |
| 16 | You should have seen their faces ! |
| 17 | And the reason I call it a candid portrait is because I do n't think that the he may have seen somebody there with a camera , but he certainly was n't posing for the camera . |
| 18 | Howard , who was becoming a country gentleman with some town property ( as opposed to his father , who would have seen himself as a London merchant with a country house ) , set about enlarging and redecorating his ‘ country seat ’ . |
| 19 | Indeed , he participates so actively that he is apparently involved in the stoning to death of Stephen , officially regarded as the first Christian martyr ( although Stephen would have seen himself , of course , as a pious Jew ) . |
| 20 | He was certainly a loyal royal servant but it is uncertain whether he would have seen himself ( or others of his generation ) as the harbinger of a new government in the north . |
| 21 | Her husband 's gooseberry eyes shot in her direction , then looked at Greg , who lowered his noticing eyes to his knees and thus looked , if he could have seen himself , the picture of guilt . |
| 22 | ‘ He must have seen her standing or walking , a lone pregnant woman , as he went past and decided to pick her up . ’ |
| 23 | If she had ever thought much about the future , I think she would have seen her mother sitting in a chair by the fire , knitting ; after all , her father had been dying all her life . |
| 24 | I know I was a brilliant Bottom but you should have seen her Titania . |
| 25 | Duncan McCrea may have seen her leave Quinn 's room but he made no mention . |
| 26 | " There you are , Stephen , like I said , you must have known her , you must have seen her hundreds of times . " |
| 27 | Reading between the lines he would have seen her secret fear for the future . |
| 28 | She wor used to work in the kipper industry , and she 'd had smallpox once , knocked her off cos you should have seen her face . |
| 29 | You should have seen her sail in there . ’ |
| 30 | He loved the way she looked , with her glossy chestnut hair which reached below her waist when she let it loose , and her tinkle of necklaces and trails of silk scarves , and her neat slender legs in their high-heeled shoes , reminding him of gazelles ' legs or gazelles reminded him of her , he supposed , since he must have seen her first . |