Example sentences of "seen [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 2 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
| 3 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 4 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 5 | He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest . |
| 6 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
| 7 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 8 | These are the people who have seen her through the difficult times , who have helped her adjust to the life before her and who have kept her in touch with the real world . |
| 9 | Some of the early sociologists regarded warfare as the means by which the first great step in social development — the expansion of human societies — was accomplished , while others have seen it as the principal factor in the formation of the state itself.4 It is evident that warfare has continued to be an important factor in these processes of expansion and consolidation of state power . |
| 10 | We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings . |
| 11 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 12 | During all our alterations I 've seen it in the old garage away up in a loft and I 've seen it put out in the back yard in the rain , and I 've always saved it and it 's there today . |