Example sentences of "i have [adv] see [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I 'd not seen his work before , that 's partly because I 'm in Brighton and not in London and do n't get up that often perhaps , but he has hardly shown in England , whereas he 's very well known in Europe , using Europe for the Continent . |
| 2 | I 'd never seen her look so evil before . |
| 3 | I 'd never seen what people drank before so that was interesting — nor did I realize quite how many of the youngsters smoked ! |
| 4 | ‘ Anyway , I suppose I 'd better see what translation the TARDIS computer can offer of these papers . ’ |
| 5 | I think I 'd better see you face to face . |
| 6 | I do n't think that in all the time I 'd known Jessica , I 'd ever seen her cry . |
| 7 | Even with the soot-stains on her skin — perhaps because of them — I had never seen her look so radiant . |
| 8 | The fact that I had never seen my aunt looking so elegant added to my impression that I was imagining this . |
| 9 | Until yesterday I had never seen your mother . |
| 10 | I had merely seen his photograph . ’ |
| 11 | I had occasionally seen his photograph as I skimmed the financial sections of the newspapers . |
| 12 | To go out at midnight in heavy rain or frost , as I sometimes did , when I would be working next morning and when I had hardly seen my wife all day , almost broke me . |
| 13 | I 've not seen it mummy , I 've not seen it at all . |
| 14 | I 've just seen my father = I 'm after seeing my father |
| 15 | Joe , shouldering his way through , called , ‘ Come out from wherever you are , Annie , I know you 're there somewhere , I 've just seen your knees . |
| 16 | I 've just seen your pic in the Standard ’ , she proclaimed excitedly , ‘ I 'd just like you to come on LBC radio tomorrow . |
| 17 | I 've certainly seen it sort of as a viable alternative for larger vehicles , you know , buses and this sort of thing . |
| 18 | Mm I do n't think I 've ever seen your log effect , is it a log effect fire ? |
| 19 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Anyway , I 've never seen her smoke . ’ |
| 21 | I 've never seen your house . ’ |
| 22 | I 've only seen my daughter-in-law for three minutes since I got the news . |
| 23 | I have n't seen her handwriting for so long that I can hardly remember what it 's like . |
| 24 | No , I have n't seen her love . |
| 25 | I have n't seen it Jonathan . |
| 26 | He must be one of the new batch ; I have n't seen his dial before . ’ |
| 27 | I have n't seen his wife yet . ’ |
| 28 | I saw him play a few times last year when they were still in the premier div. and was fairly impressed however I have n't seen his form this season and I 'm sure a year in Div.1 wo n't have improved him . |
| 29 | I have n't seen your catalogue . |
| 30 | I have n't seen your family for months . |