Example sentences of "'d seen [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder if you 'd seen much change in it if you went back now |
| 2 | I do n't see them very often but when we meet it 's as though we 'd seen each other yesterday . |
| 3 | They 'd seen each other fairly regularly since , but more and more competitively as time went on . |
| 4 | They 'd seen each other every day since then ; sometimes , because of rehearsals and because Gesner had so much work to do , it was only for a drink at the Franz Joseph . |
| 5 | There was really very little to talk about , since they 'd seen each other at breakfast , so conversation became desultory once Irene had told Juliet about the other patients — the hysterectomies , the ovarian cyst as big as a football , and the girl who had come to be sterilised and was found to be pregnant . |
| 6 | A lip turned up at the towel in her hair , as if he was remembering that first time they 'd seen each other , but the quirk of that lip was cruel . |
| 7 | He 'd seen similar paths near Farnborough . |
| 8 | I 'd seen other men in other companies , as innocent as I believed myself to be , hounded out because wrongdoers require a scapegoat where the wrongdoing concerns money . |
| 9 | Is there a message for me from a garage ? ’ she changed her mind to rephrase it pleasantly to the man whom she 'd seen many times before and who , from his broad welcoming smile , she knew had remembered her . |
| 10 | He 'd seen many changes in the penal system as a whole and Whitely in particular during his days as Governor at the prison . |
| 11 | I was pretty sure I 'd seen that coin before , in that very hotel . |
| 12 | For that matter , he 'd seen that loft being put together , knew it almost as well as that self-opinionated young architect had . |
| 13 | Another witness , taxi driver David Harvey described how he 'd seen two cars flashing by , about three feet apart , in the opposite direction . |
| 14 | She 'd seen two men fighting in the street and seen them run past her . |
| 15 | I 'd seen premature babies but never a baby that small . |
| 16 | Ford dealers Quicks of Altrincham had more potential customers in the few hours after Mr Lamont 's speech than they 'd seen all week . |
| 17 | ‘ I wish you 'd seen New Canaan , Connecticut , March 1 to April 14 … |
| 18 | I mean to tell you that I 'd seen old Ken |
| 19 | Not exactly the same as each other ; he 'd seen different types , but they were all the same types . |
| 20 | She was a make-up artist , for goodness ' sake — she 'd seen any number of half-naked male actors in her time , but she 'd never reacted like this before . |
| 21 | The woman that she 'd seen last night at the top of the stairs was nowhere around , and Lucy knew better than to ask . |
| 22 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 23 | I 'd seen this attitude once before in the village when a cow , grazing on the cliffside , fell down into the valley below . |
| 24 | And this astonished him , because he 'd seen this kind of thing at home . |
| 25 | In a famous recent case , someone said : ‘ If I 'd seen this pile of bricks on the side of the road I 'd never have thought it was art ’ . |
| 26 | When the hundred came up it weas from a very different Hick and Worcestershhire to what we 'd seen this morning . |
| 27 | You see , I 'd mentioned the fact that I 'd seen this chap several mornings hanging about in the Cove , so I decided not to take Miss Celia down there for a bit , even though we were having a real Indian summer that year . |
| 28 | He 'd seen enough trees dose to the boundary to know he could use them to scale up , and his coat would protect him against the barbed wire . |
| 29 | I guess he 'd seen American officers on TV the whole time during the Viet Nam war . |
| 30 | He 'd seen human parents intervene in conflicts between pa er , between er offspring . |