Example sentences of "[vb past] seen this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 2 | I 'd seen this attitude once before in the village when a cow , grazing on the cliffside , fell down into the valley below . |
| 3 | And this astonished him , because he 'd seen this kind of thing at home . |
| 4 | In a famous recent case , someone said : ‘ If I 'd seen this pile of bricks on the side of the road I 'd never have thought it was art ’ . |
| 5 | When the hundred came up it weas from a very different Hick and Worcestershhire to what we 'd seen this morning . |
| 6 | You see , I 'd mentioned the fact that I 'd seen this chap several mornings hanging about in the Cove , so I decided not to take Miss Celia down there for a bit , even though we were having a real Indian summer that year . |
| 7 | She knew she had seen this man not just in the fog , but in the Rockingham public house . |
| 8 | As soon as I had seen this reading of the phrase it at once seemed more plausible . |
| 9 | She had seen this money before , of course , and still had a little collection of it that she had made as a child , yet it was disconcerting to reflect that Johnny would use it as part of his everyday life . |
| 10 | Once a man had seen this type of dusky-skinned beauty , she imagined nothing else would do . |
| 11 | Before the vote , councillors had seen this video by the League Against Cruel Sports . |
| 12 | David Tindle had recently returned from a visit to Paris where he had seen this painting for the first time . |
| 13 | He had seen this breed before . |
| 14 | She had seen this expression , this lack of expression , this closing in and down , on the face of the demon baby Ruth had once been . |
| 15 | Phyllisia had seen this girl called Marian , she wanted to be her friend because she was perfect and her father would have been impressed , but when she approached her , Marian snubbed Phyllisia . |
| 16 | ‘ Probably an interositor , ’ said Tuppe , who had seen This Island Earth three times . |
| 17 | Police discovered them in a raid , after they were tipped off by a buyer who had seen this advert in the motoring magazine Exchange and Mart . |
| 18 | Something was bothering him , something he had seen this morning at the bridge … |
| 19 | He had seen this aspect of officialdom before . |
| 20 | I felt that I had seen this movie before . |