Example sentences of "i have [adv] see a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'd just seen a colleague come and go in less than three months … |
| 2 | I 'd also seen a probation person . |
| 3 | I 'd never seen a weapon like that before — only military rifles . |
| 4 | I went to see the semi-finals of the Midland Bank Championships in Brighton — the first time I 'd ever seen a tennis match live . |
| 5 | We were going to see a film and I had n't seen a film before . |
| 6 | I had already seen a couple of ringed seals , several eider duck , many Arctic terns and kittiwakes and a few scruffy immature glaucous gulls before I crept into my bunk to sleep . |
| 7 | It seems remarkable now , when Glen Shiel is so busy , that I had not seen a car nor a human being since leaving Tomdoun eighteen miles earlier … |
| 8 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 9 | I had never seen a man deliberately killed before and I was more scared even than I had been before . |
| 10 | I had never seen a kiln fired before and the unpredictable behaviour of live flame could only add to the already restless sensuality of the afternoon . |
| 11 | I had never seen a horse breathe like this . |
| 12 | I had never seen a police launch , but this one had an unmistakably official look about it , and in size and speed would be more than a match for either Stormy Petrel or Sea Otter . |
| 13 | This caused a needle to bend to an angle at which I had never seen a needle before ! |
| 14 | I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest . |
| 15 | I had only seen a wall there before , and now my heart leapt when I saw , through the Bride and the Bachelors , through the Milky Way and the Chariot and the Grinder and the Sieves - someone moving . |
| 16 | The cows I could see grazed on and on , and I was trying to remember if I had ever seen an ox grazing instead of working . |
| 17 | I 've yet to see a case of what we would define as really rape . |
| 18 | I 've not seen a lot of it actually , so far . |
| 19 | I 've just seen a tape of the BBC 's The Gospels , produced by Jack Emery , which is being shown every day during Easter week . |
| 20 | I do n't think I 've ever seen a dormouse I must be honest |
| 21 | Many years later , married and with small children , I was to live in a house with a garden which had a gate into Green Walk , the only place where I 've actually seen a nightingale . |
| 22 | I 've often seen a cat without a grin , ’ thought Alice , ‘ but never a grin without a cat ! ’ |
| 23 | You know his mouth all went crinkly crrkkkk I 've never seen a jaw |
| 24 | ‘ I 've never seen a scene like it and never want to again , ’ said Mr Yoxall as he surveyed the carnage . |
| 25 | And I 've never seen a case in which there was a fist fight in front of the cinema and they pulled the movie because of it . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've never seen a sky like that in my life before , ’ Susan said softly , wonder in her voice . |
| 27 | Now I 've never seen a provision like that put forward for legislation before . |
| 28 | I 've never seen a Metro so full . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've never seen a lugworm like it ’ |
| 30 | But I 've never seen a child there … ’ |