Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] seen [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Connections : I 'd seen Nevil at Sedgeley House ; I 'd seen Jo at the Mimosa Club where Nevil was supposed to work , or at least beat up barmen . |
| 2 | Yeah I thought I 'd seen cloud on top on the hills . |
| 3 | It was on the tip of her tongue to tell him that she thought she 'd seen Amy on Friday night . |
| 4 | She had seen pictures in books and on television of gaudily painted narrow boats and had warmed to the romantic life they portrayed . |
| 5 | He 'd seen patients in calipers but did n't know how to do it himself . |
| 6 | Soon after his first brush with ravens he had seen buzzards like Woil in the distance . |
| 7 | He had seen Hugo from time to time in the intervening years ; he knew from Hugo 's cousin Christian that his former tutor had fallen on hard times . |
| 8 | It was ironical that ten days before he had seen Shiva at Heathrow . |
| 9 | The week before last , when it had been colder , he had seen parties of hikers , a fisherman coming from the Hilder , cyclists on the Loomlade road , campers with tent and calor gas stove and blankets on their backs . |
| 10 | Rex Cunningham had told her that he had seen Clare in possession of a photograph of me which had convinced him we were intimate friends . |
| 11 | The young man went on staring at him ; the idea that he had seen Dyson on television seemed to be too far-fetched even to penetrate his consciousness . |
| 12 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |