Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] seen [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was pretty sure I 'd seen that coin before , in that very hotel . |
| 2 | I 'd seen other men in other companies , as innocent as I believed myself to be , hounded out because wrongdoers require a scapegoat where the wrongdoing concerns money . |
| 3 | I 'd seen premature babies but never a baby that small . |
| 4 | I mean to tell you that I 'd seen old Ken |
| 5 | I 'd seen this attitude once before in the village when a cow , grazing on the cliffside , fell down into the valley below . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ But I was cautious about it too as I 'd seen both sides — the periods of unemployment as well as the glossy side of my father being in something so popular like Howards ' Way . ’ |
| 10 | As for her face , it was one I had seen countless times in buses and supermarkets , dole queues and pubs , waiting outside schools or factories , at all ages from fifteen to fifty . |
| 11 | The tanker was the only vehicle I had seen all day . |
| 12 | I recalled an old man I had seen that afternoon , standing by a well . |
| 13 | To my eyes the new pair of partridges were indistinguishable from any of the other birds I had seen that day , but the rest of the audience clearly thought otherwise . |
| 14 | As a journalist I had seen many countries overseas , all smaller and poorer than ourselves , being granted self-government ; and I had hoped that Scotland would not be denied even the limited self-government that was then being dished out to the Cook Islands and the Faeroe Islands and the Cameroons . ’ |
| 15 | I had seen many people in the distance . |
| 16 | I had seen many pictures of attacks on the city but somehow seeing that bridge destroyed , it suddenly hit me what is happening to Baghdad . |
| 17 | However , I had seen such sights before , in my days at primary school , and despite the use of Patriots , Jubilees and even Royal Scots on the more prestigious sets of wagons , it was the early afternoon express traffic which was the focal point of my attention . |
| 18 | Flying over the country at fifteen thousand feet at night , I had seen strange toy woods and towns and the eiderdown pattern of the fields . |
| 19 | For in those few moments I had seen another world of eternity and the meeting was relegated to the category of the fleeting . |
| 20 | As soon as I had seen this reading of the phrase it at once seemed more plausible . |
| 21 | I felt that I had seen this movie before . |
| 22 | I held up my arms as I had seen German prisoners do in news-reels . |
| 23 | I had seen enough pain and blood for one night . |
| 24 | What came was a sort of double-image — the boy I had known up to yesterday , young , grubby , entertaining , kind , lively , with his impish , monkey-plainness ; and the face I had seen last night for the first time , a face wiped clean of everything but rapture and tenderness and astonishment , a different face , a face to love and find beautiful . |
| 25 | I had seen these birds before in Shetland , but only in winter plumage on migration , and here they were , obviously on their home territory . |
| 26 | I had seen these images of John before , but then came a video report from Danish TV back in 1981 . |
| 27 | I 've seen black dolls . |
| 28 | I 've seen thicker mould on a cheese . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've seen entire worlds in ruins because of what you did , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Thin plastic tape is also obtainable for this purpose , and I 've seen narrow strips of cling film used very successfully ! |