Example sentences of "he [verb] seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This copper said 'e used ter be on the Tunnel beat an' 'e 'd seen a bloke who looked like me knockin' around wiv 'em . |
| 2 | He remembered a swamp draining into a lagoon some distance to the right of the highway — the road must have been raised for him to have seen that distance . |
| 3 | The point is , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that Actaeon is not free to narrate what he has seen , but Ovid is . |
| 4 | ‘ You ca n't predict anything until he has seen the scan , but Dean is looking very doubtful , ’ England 's manager , Geoff Cooke , said . |
| 5 | In his letter to Labour MPs , Mr Foster has asked for backing on the grounds that he has seen the parliamentary party through the dark years , and now wants to guide them through better times . |
| 6 | Thankfully , he has seen this simple act as one of friendship rather than for what it really is — I am afraid of him and I want him on my side . |
| 7 | Yes , it is a bad winter , the worst he has seen in sixty-five years of herding reindeer here . |
| 8 | SIR — Just what thought-processes are assumed to make the floating voter more inclined to support party leaders whom he has seen flanked by what the newspapers call ‘ glitterati ’ — celebrities , that is , of stage , screen , pop concerts , running , jumping and playing ball games ? |
| 9 | Yet he has seen only two other houses in the creek come on the market in the last 12 years . |
| 10 | But he has seen him now — when we did a concert together — and it is all much better . ’ |
| 11 | From what he has seen this year , he also believes the English game is rather stereotyped . |
| 12 | He is impressed , and depressed too , by the superior technology he has seen on exercises and on television during the Gulf War — the speed and accuracy of US helicopters , the manoeuvrability of their boats , the sensitivity of their detection equipment . |
| 13 | I think Brian Way has in the past misjudged Dorothy Heathcote 's work because he has seen it as intellectual . |
| 14 | He has seen the battalions , squadrons , tanks , infantry , and so on . |
| 15 | I want to be a part of the sport , one sport which encompasses everyone from a small kid who wants to have a go at throwing the javelin because he has seen Steve Backley on television , through to the 60-year-old recreational runner . ’ |
| 16 | I enjoy the actual hunt in the same way that a fisherman enjoys casting his fly or bait near a fish that he has seen in the hope of catching it . |
| 17 | If he wept because he saw another world beyond sensible things , that , after all , is called ‘ Water of the Eyes ’ , then he has seen a thing which is a congener and perfecter of prayer , that is the object of prayer and his prayer is in order and even more perfect . |
| 18 | H. On the fish docks at Hull a retired trawler skipper , Mr Grant , tells how he has seen the port change in his lifetime . |
| 19 | In imitative play he might assume a role in imitation of one with which he is familiar and might handle equipment as he has seen it used by others . |
| 20 | Most of the child 's talk about himself , his toys , the things that he has seen or those he can do , arises spontaneously from his play . |
| 21 | He has seen all of the cathedrals in Denmark , Belgium , Bavaria and the Faroe Islands . |
| 22 | How Basil Cottle 's guide to the French Cathedrals might look — when he has seen the remaining 40 episcopal seats . |
| 23 | •Verily , he has seen the light ! |
| 24 | For he can not love God , whom he has not seen , if he does not love his brother [ or teacher ] , whom he has seen . |
| 25 | For he can not love God , whom he has not seen , if he does not love ‘ Boggers ’ , whom he has seen . |
| 26 | He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film . |
| 27 | He has seen the Peliatan dancers on tour , hung his walls with posters of that photogenic island , bought records of gamelan music . |
| 28 | To pick once again examples relevant to awareness , philosophers have often argued on the assumption that since an observer can not be mistaken about what he sees or hears ( although he may mistakenly suppose that he has seen or heard it ) , or a thinker about what he knows , there must be infallible operations by which to arrive at this certainty . |
| 29 | He has seen music legends come and go but , until the end of this month , Fluff has fought and won his battle with time . |
| 30 | And although he has seen some strange sights down the Big Apple 's drains , the real-life Mario has never had to fight off fire-breathing dragons or deadly piranha flowers . |