Example sentences of "seen [pers pn] [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I have seen them with my own eyes .
2 ‘ You can scoff , ’ said the visitor of San Severo , ‘ but I 've seen them with my own eyes . ’
3 She had seen them on their expensive horses , swooping across country , confident in the saddle .
4 It helps if you have seen them in their own surroundings and get an impression of the sort of person they are .
5 The press had already scented a story , and friends at Regent 's Park Zoo urged her to speak out about the zoo animals ' wretched living conditions , now she had seen them in their natural habitat .
6 ‘ Have n't seen you since your first trip in the basket lift .
7 ‘ Because she 's seen him with her own eyes !
8 ‘ If she 's seen him with her own eyes she knows which restaurant it is . ’
9 Anyway , she 's seen him in his true colours now , she sniffs , and she 's lost interest in him completely .
10 Someone ought to talk to Lily Bates , yes , that was what he had said and meant , but it might not have been him if he had n't seen her for himself that afternoon between five and six , the period between Hook Road School closing and Rose leaving her office at Belmodes ; the time Steve would have made his own .
11 McAllister could not remember having seen her in her old life in high society , which was fortunate , perhaps .
12 He remembered , suddenly , how she had looked when he had seen her after her first shock treatment , her lips bitten and bruised .
13 All she could mutter was , ‘ Bruce , if I had n't seen it with my own eyes , I would never have believed it . ’
14 I 've seen it with my own eyes . ’
15 I 've seen it with my own eyes .
16 By opportunities for learning that can be at depth , about learning about ourselves , but also the practical things like what do you say to a child whose father 's come back mutilated from war erm how do you write a letter to a bereaved person , and I think children I mean they are capable of doing this , I 've seen it with my own children , with some help they 're able to express quite deep emotions , you know , to somebody who 's had a bereavement , and if they can learn that now , you know , it 's going to be a lot easier later on .
17 The experience Mr Chairman I have of these situations is that trees happen to fall down , and hedges happen to get pushed by bulldozers , and at the end of the day , because I 've seen it in my own village where I was born , I 'm afraid with all respect to what happens , what is actually passed by the planners does n't actually come to pass because there is always a reason why it ca n't .
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