Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a countenance I 'd seen before ; only the mirror 's frame was more ornate . |
| 2 | I told my friends I was going to the dentist this afternoon because I knew they 'd be jealous if they knew I 'd seen Home Alone 2 before anyone else . |
| 3 | No wonder I 'd seen so little of her . |
| 4 | There was an Indian restaurant I 'd seen there , near Sloane Square . |
| 5 | The smoke I 'd seen earlier was from a bricked-in fire under a cauldron , in which more garments appeared to be bubbling . |
| 6 | I 'd seen enough . |
| 7 | I thought I 'd seen enough . |
| 8 | After all , I 'd seen only photographs of his new personality . |
| 9 | Siobhan Redmond I 'd seen once in a revue by Marcella for St Andrews University and I tracked her down in Glasgow and asked her would she like to do a show for buttons for the newly opened Tron Theatre , who were interested . |
| 10 | I 'd seen long ago in a wild-life programme about |
| 11 | Walking through the lobby of Hotel Vancouver one day I happened to see Shelly talking to a smart looking young lady and when I joined them he introduced his assistant , Hellen Semmens . |
| 12 | And , as soon as I realised that , as soon as I thought about his breakdown , I started to worry , I started to see just how unstable he still was . |
| 13 | And I started see now they 've brought out that Dove , the moisturizer , rubbish . |
| 14 | I went to see where , she puts lollipop in school like and I went to see exactly she 's supposed to start at quarter to twelve so I went round there for quarter to twelve about five past twelve when she , it 's like yours . |
| 15 | One beautiful face in a shop brought into my mind an undraped statue I had seen somewhere and we blushed together . |
| 16 | I had seen exactly such eyes , and such hands , very recently ! |
| 17 | As the sign for Piccadilly Circus flashed by I braved the warm draught on the platform again and on my way to the National Gallery I passed Trafalgar Square where I observed the pigeons strangely doing the same things I had seen just moments before , except of course rather less ‘ chicly ’ . |
| 18 | Posters advertising Knock pilgrimages that I had seen nearly always mentioned ‘ matchmaking ’ as part of the attractions . |
| 19 | There was the same combination that I had seen before : collected in groups that seemed threatening because you were not part of them , and between these bright areas black , empty alleys full of odd forebodings . |
| 20 | Gold , scarlet and blazing flame I had seen before , but never like this , washing over the low clouds from below , and backed by the most delicate and limpid green which faded to primrose and then into the shadowy greys of the upper sky . |
| 21 | We were shown round the mills at Newcastle-under-Lyme and Preston , both of which I had seen before . |
| 22 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 23 | Then I hurried down to look at the ruins I had seen earlier , before the next onslaught of rough weather could begin . |
| 24 | Like a camera my restless mind followed the rabid mongrels of Puno as they roamed down the narrow streets , through the tight patchwork of market stalls , over the rubble-lined railway track , to fight at last over a pair of cow 's horns I had seen earlier topping a pile of refuse . |
| 25 | Among them was the young man I had seen earlier . |
| 26 | Their servants were the horrible-looking animals I had seen earlier . |
| 27 | I had never even seen a Muslim — apart , of course , from on the television , and the ones I had seen there — I will be absolutely frank — did not seem a particularly inspiring bunch ! ’ |
| 28 | Tiredness , the excitement of the journey and of sitting , so late , at a pavement café such as I had seen only in films ( these agreeable continental institutions had not yet spread to London , far less pre-Festival Edinburgh ) , as well as the unaccustomed intake of alcohol , all made my head reel . |
| 29 | I had seen only one other porno film before , a miserable five-minute affair in grainy black and white in Tangiers , and what surprised me about two of the three films was the quality of the finished product . |
| 30 | I had seen only one other signed by Jean-Claude before . |