Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had rarely heard him speak with such vehemence , never seen him so angry . |
| 2 | One has rarely heard him sing with more authority , and never seen him so communicative , happy and funny . |
| 3 | Her mind was too busy seeing the man who had wearily let her go , not wilfully , as she had always imagined , but finally , for what he thought was her own good . |
| 4 | So I just get it cos I 've only heard you say that before I do n't actually really know what it meant . |
| 5 | ‘ Better let him tell you about it , ’ Robins advised . |
| 6 | I 've only seen him kiss your woman , that was what three and a half months ago . |
| 7 | Yeah , so you 'd be if you 're making records you 'd better made it count early on . |
| 8 | His albums ‘ Travels ’ , ‘ Still Life Talking ’ and ‘ Offramp ’ have all seen him walk away with a guitar case full of awards . |
| 9 | ‘ It is a capacity which has obviously helped us survive as a species over thousands of years , and medical staff see evidence of it even today time after time , ’ said intensive care specialist Sally Ford . |
| 10 | Well , thank you very much er , Geoffrey , erm that was a very full , and I think er , and as he says , cautious account of what 's been happening , and he does remind me of all the finance officers that I 've ever known , in this thing , I 've never really seen , or rarely seen them smile . |
| 11 | Their need for live practice has since seen them support The Paris Angels and Northside , though they admit they 'd be better or suited to a dance crowd . |
| 12 | He had not heard them pass him ; he had been too intent on watching the singer . |
| 13 | The men who had not heard them arrive in the courtyard looked up in surprise . |
| 14 | I think I had not heard him cry for six years . |
| 15 | Lost in her condemnation of the two young men at the table , she had not heard him come in . |
| 16 | She had not heard him approach her . |
| 17 | He was mightily pissed off with me ; perhaps he wished he had just let them shoot me on the ground . |
| 18 | My ancestors brought such sophisticated culture to India — but they have just let it disintegrate . |
| 19 | The C B one says I 've only just let you have it ! |
| 20 | If only they had not let her go out that night . |
| 21 | The house sighed , wishing it had not let him start . |
| 22 | Why not let him think he 'd won the argument ? |
| 23 | All that was left to her now was to not let him know just how much he had hurt her . |
| 24 | ‘ Better not let him hear you say that , sir . |
| 25 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 26 | She had not made them learn a definition of a sentence , which would be entirely inappropriate for this age group , nor did she ask them to complete meaningless exercises . |
| 27 | ‘ If all that pother has not made me forget ! |
| 28 | She had not seen him arrive at her home , since she had not known who he was when they had encountered each other in the garden — but she had seen him leave . |
| 29 | She had no excuse for going into his part of the house and she had not seen him near the servants ’ quarters since that first afternoon . |
| 30 | I had not seen him smoke before , and did not know he did . |