Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] see [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never seen a female naked . |
| 2 | I never went to one , I 'd never seen a live band that actually wrote their own stuff . |
| 3 | On 24 May 1988 , the last bit of meat went out the door , and an hour later I felt I 'd never seen a T-bone steak ! ’ |
| 4 | I 'd never seen a white blues band playing so good and this kid , Jimmie Vaughan , was playing some of the most devastating guitar I 've ever heard in my life . |
| 5 | I put my hands over my eyes to shut out my fears : I 'd never seen a dead person before . |
| 6 | But I 'd never seen the real thing . |
| 7 | And er that was the first time I 'd ever seen a continental headboard . |
| 8 | Before a prayer had formed itself , a young brown hand covered mine and I looked round to see the turbaned head of the Youngest Son , his face half covered by his head-scarf , his eyes laughing , his whole figure straight against the storm as though he and it had made some truce . |
| 9 | My memories of it , I 've got , I 've always got wonderful memories of the Co-op , you see and that Co-op has been there m on that corner which , when it closed a few years ago I went down to see the present executive officer , he was then assistant , and we campaigned against the closing of Walsall Wood shop but erm course it was of no avail . |
| 10 | I did n't see the great walled city of Chanchán , only the mist and rain , the blur of the headlights and the windscreen wipers clicking endlessly across my vision . |
| 11 | I did n't see the new dog till it was nearly six months old and its mistress asked me to call to treat it for a slight attack of eczema . |
| 12 | It can be proved by witnesses stating that they saw the defendant ‘ drive round the roundabout and wander into the side of another car ’ or ‘ brake rather late and run into the car in front ’ or by the defendant stating that ‘ I misjudged the gap or distance ’ or ‘ I did n't see the other car , motorbike , cycle or pedestrian , etc . ’ |
| 13 | The offender 's non-observance of other vehicles or traffic signs etc. is generally no defence , e.g. ‘ I did n't see the other car ’ or ‘ I did n't see the ‘ stop ’ sign ’ . |
| 14 | Yes , I did n't see the other one . |
| 15 | I did n't see the pale young gentleman there again . |
| 16 | I did n't see the same face twice for three weeks — there were so many sound stages and all these people , and on top of that , I was going to make a movie with Clark Gable . |
| 17 | ‘ I wish I had n't seen the bloody flash , ’ he muttered under his breath . |
| 18 | I had never seen a big sea-bird colony before . |
| 19 | I had never seen a happy jogger and I was not ill . |
| 20 | In Jamaica I had never seen a white person ; to us youngsters they were an unknown quantity . |
| 21 | It was the first time I had ever seen a live tennis match — Wimbledon has always been out of the question financially , and the Midland Bank tournament offered me the chance to see live international tennis at a reasonable price . |