Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all the previous months , I had rarely seen land , never wanted to . |
| 2 | I replied cautiously , acutely aware that I had n't seen Spock and Kirk do their thing for years and that I 'd only seen one episode of the new series . |
| 3 | Statements such as , ‘ I did n't see it previously ’ ; ‘ I 've just noticed something new ’ ; I can see all sorts of things of interest which I had n't seen before' ; ‘ I was n't interested in that before … suddenly it has a very significant part to play ’ ; ‘ the painting is actually changing for me ’ ; ‘ I 'm just discovering it ’ ; ‘ I 've started now to appreciate … ‘ , abounded . |
| 4 | I thought for a moment that I had come second ; I had n't seen Ben at all . |
| 5 | I had n't seen Malc for some months . |
| 6 | I HAD N'T seen Nirvana since December '91 , when they 'd played the Transmusicales Festival in Rennes , France . |
| 7 | I had n't seen Nell at all either . |
| 8 | Well these tables he bought , well I had n't seen tables like that before , he bought them in Italy somewhere . |
| 9 | I had n't seen John at all since before going to hospital . |
| 10 | I had n't seen Michael before , which is normal for me . |
| 11 | I had n't seen Mrs. Dow in ten years . |
| 12 | I had already seen pictures by Popova , Klyun , and other artists who were then totally unknown . |
| 13 | I had not seen Hugo for three hours . |
| 14 | I had not seen Otley for some time and climbed up on the wall for a better view . |
| 15 | I had not seen Leeds at the time ’ ? |
| 16 | I had just seen Dad and another man carrying a tool box to safety when a loud shout from a policeman sent me scurrying back from my vantage point . |
| 17 | I had never seen water that was that blue . |
| 18 | I had never seen Cherry in a suit before . |
| 19 | This was n't the India I knew : during five previous visits I had never seen women kiss each other . |
| 20 | I had never seen Mr Broadhurst in such a good mood before . |
| 21 | I had never seen Squire Trelawney so near . |
| 22 | After all , nobody had ever seen Jackie Tiptoe cry . |
| 23 | But she had n't seen Miguel — he had stayed in Santa Barbara . |
| 24 | She had n't seen Jenny since she had moved to Moorlake that first week-end but she had known that it would not be long before Jenny returned . |
| 25 | The fact that she had n't seen Guy since made the episode in the Caribbean seem dreamlike — or nightmarish , she amended bitterly . |
| 26 | She had n't seen Luke since the afternoon when she 'd run from the office , having confined her windsurfing to early Saturday mornings , safe in the knowledge that his tuition of the children took place later in the day . |
| 27 | she had n't seen Margaret since Christmas Eve . |
| 28 | For a start , she had n't seen Rosemary for fifteen minutes and she did not want her to feel left out . |
| 29 | Would it have been easier if she had n't seen Lucy almost every day for four years going into or out of the office next door ? |
| 30 | She had n't seen Wenceslas Square yet , she itemised , and to see the square named after the patron saint of the Bohemian kingdom was surely a must for any visitor to Prague ! |