Example sentences of "have seen [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |
| 2 | He went up , and it 's first time he 'd seen her for a while and she said something about , oh he was supposed to have something but he got to hear this well it 's got nothing to do with all the others . |
| 3 | He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them . |
| 4 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 5 | She stared at him and , as her eyes met his , once again , like the moment he 'd seen her in the pool , she seemed unable to look away . |
| 6 | He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired . |
| 7 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 8 | A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram . |
| 9 | He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile . |
| 10 | Oh fine , yet Jo was just saying on the phone there that she 'd seen him in a catalogue . |
| 11 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 12 | Lucy reckoned that , for the man in charge , he had some staggeringly dull tasks to handle ; she 'd seen him in the stockroom once , counting every bottle in every crate of tonic water . |
| 13 | I 'd seen it along the end of the track . |
| 14 | Anyway I went there and I was impressed , I 'd seen it from the ship and I completely concur with everything that 's been said . |
| 15 | He 'd seen it in a junk-shop in Edinburgh and brought it all the way down . |
| 16 | It was a look she recognised instantly , although it was the first time she 'd seen it in the flesh . |
| 17 | Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop |
| 18 | ‘ I told her I 'd seen you over the weekend , ’ she relayed . |
| 19 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
| 20 | As for King Arthur , Tolkien might well have seen him as a symptom of English vagueness . |
| 21 | You must have seen him at the pictures . ‘ |
| 22 | If , for example , old man Jordan had come into the kitchen at that moment , Wycliffe might have seen him in the mirror ; but what of it ? |
| 23 | Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years . |
| 24 | Whoever was inside could have seen him from the windows . |
| 25 | For it was not pure ocular seeing , or I should have seen her as a girl of the age which I have now reached . |
| 26 | We 'd have seen her at the window long ago , and got her down . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He would have seen her at the races , ’ I said , smiling . |
| 28 | But who could have seen her in the park and reported back this quickly ? |
| 29 | She had a view through the windscreen but no one could have seen her in the back . |
| 30 | You should have seen me in the dock , man . |