Example sentences of "[pers pn] had seen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |
| 2 | Although she had never shown even the remotest sign of lameness I was looking at the worst case of hip dysplasia I had seen for some time . |
| 3 | The fields and clouds were the same as those I had seen for the last half hour . |
| 4 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 5 | That was important , but much more important for me was the message that crofting , which I had seen as a hang-over , an anachronism , had enduring values I had not previously recognised . |
| 6 | It rekindles memories of those old-fashioned Hollywood romances of the Thirties and Forties that I had seen as a child . |
| 7 | I had seen into paradisiac regions , with their air and sky , and I was no longer wholly or merely a denizen of this vulgar earth . |
| 8 | I moved round behind his back , until I had seen into every part of the room . |
| 9 | The nearest thing I had seen to this were monsoon drains in Malaya : deep , concrete channels meant to take away storm water , but which usually lay like mantraps , just under the flood surface . |
| 10 | Earlier that evening we were visited by Brigadier Mills Roberts , accompanied by several senior Officers , whom I had seen on occasion at Petworth in Sussex ( Commando Group Headquarters ) . |
| 11 | According to a picture I had seen on the wall of the Royal Hotel , this Priory had been founded by King Felin O'Connor of Connaught , whose burial place it became . |
| 12 | Indeed , my father 's face had gone a dull reddish colour , like no colour I had seen on a living being . |
| 13 | I remembered the black tents I had seen on this same spot on my first visit . |
| 14 | I told him that ever since listening to my father 's vivid descriptions of Constantinople I had always wanted to visit the city , but that I had been sadly disillusioned by the Turks I had seen on my way to the Embassy ; they had looked so incongruous in second-hand European clothes . |
| 15 | ‘ For me , I was in the place which I had seen on a globe as a girl — where the pin went through it ! |
| 16 | And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them . |
| 17 | The interior was just as I expected from the books I had seen at school . |
| 18 | It turned out that her son was a great friend of the paraquat-wielding monk I had seen at the monastery farm near Roscrea . |
| 19 | I described the crowning of the goat I had seen at Killorglin . |
| 20 | Bunting and Irish flags made a bright display , still celebrating the bicycle race of weeks earlier , the one I had seen at Mullingar . |
| 21 | He had the bogus Red Cross form which I had seen at Amsterdam on his lap . |
| 22 | I disabused his mind on this point by telling him about the fresh pug marks I had seen at the pool , and advised him very strongly to collect his buffaloes and return to the village . |
| 23 | Awake , like this , the animal seemed perfectly normal , not at all like the crazed , somersaulting creature I had seen at the cottage . |
| 24 | His smile was so elfin I was reminded of a troll and a performance of Peer Gynt I had seen at the Maddermarket in Norwich . |
| 25 | The girl I had seen at dinner had seemed likeable in a cold kind of way . |
| 26 | He picked up one of those brown shiny golf-balls that I had seen at Pike 's and rolled it across the desk to me . |
| 27 | What I had seen of Czechoslovakia was a society which encouraged a miserable waste of human resources . |
| 28 | He disappeared into the ship , and I thought that was the last I had seen of him . |
| 29 | The children were very much like the angels of resurrection which I had seen over tombs . |
| 30 | And as I made my way past those bedrooms , I had seen through a doorway Miss Kenton 's figure , silhouetted against a window , turn and call softly : ‘ Mr Stevens , if you have a moment . ’ |