Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] see [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not think them greater , failed entirely to see why she should . |
| 2 | I 'd better see how much |
| 3 | ‘ Aye , and not before time , we 'd best see right round the place . |
| 4 | Legend has it that , during the obligatory pre-signing wine and dine sesh , The ‘ Weed boys insisted they share the food , as there was more on one plate than they 'd ever seen before . |
| 5 | It was so far outside anything he 'd ever seen before that his mind was n't letting him worry about it . |
| 6 | He 'd probably seen enough anyway . |
| 7 | She 'd never seen so much silverware , and all laid out for one person . |
| 8 | I 'd never seen so many shots go in so many directions all at the one time . |
| 9 | I 'd never seen so many barrows . |
| 10 | And then we got to school and it was all big and confusing and there was all these boys I 'd never seen before , all with their parents and some of the kids were weird-looking with funny eyes . |
| 11 | He looked along this end of Mrs Wright 's house that he 'd never seen before . |
| 12 | San Francisco dealer John Berggruen sold twelve works in this category , all by younger artists , and New York dealer Nancy Hoffman , calling this year 's fair ‘ the best yet ’ , sold ten works by contemporary artists , including three to people she 'd never seen before . |
| 13 | Mr Wopsle and Joe were sitting with a stranger , a man I 'd never seen before . |
| 14 | A chauffeur , someone she 'd never seen before , brought the car to the front door . |
| 15 | And er they drew their truncheons , that I 'd never seen before , policemen with truncheons , er and they started to run and everybody else started to run , and I forgot there was a puppy dog , this puppy dog it it chased it chased towards the er p policemen , and started er barking and d and carrying on , and one of the policemen did no more than thump it straight across the top of the head with a with a truncheon , and er and that was the end of the puppy . |
| 16 | As Donna climbed the stairs slowly she looked around at the dozens of people entering and leaving the building , wondering how the hell she was supposed to find someone she 'd never seen before . |
| 17 | ‘ Foreign ’ just meant that the car was a large luxury saloon of a kind she 'd never seen before . |
| 18 | They drove me back to the Ministry , where I was questioned by an officer I 'd never seen before , a colonel . |
| 19 | The guy with her I 'd never seen before . |
| 20 | Somebody I 'd never seen before said hello and |
| 21 | With Shakespeare almost every time that I read more than forty lines , I see something I 'd never seen before , which is demonstrably there . |
| 22 | With Shakespeare , almost every time I read more than forty lines , I see something I 'd never seen before , which is demonstrably there . |
| 23 | The party was held at his flat which was a loft in a warehouse down by the river in Shad Thames on a wharf right next to Tower Bridge I 'd never seen anywhere like it . |
| 24 | At one stage the whole congregation went outside to see where the drainage ditch would be sited . |
| 25 | and I went across to see how she was and he says I 'm expecting her home today , that were Thursday , so that was |
| 26 | We waited patiently to see how the new Council would emerge , and we are now delighted to have established a Partnership Plan between ourselves and CCW . |
| 27 | Gaitskell , Citrine , Self and Wilkinson had all seen earlier that , to be effective , the differential charge would have to be large : perhaps 1¼d . |
| 28 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
| 29 | Beside him Gosse looked down , as if he had already seen where this led . |
| 30 | It was the only chamber Corbett had ever seen where there were no torches fixed to the wall . |