Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] seen 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I had never seen a man deliberately killed before and I was more scared even than I had been before . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I had never seen a horse breathe like this . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This caused a needle to bend to an angle at which I had never seen a needle before ! |
| 12 | I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest . |
| 13 | 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 . |