Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] seen [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ewan had seen you leap on Hector , and struck out at you — I tried to hold back his blow ! ’ |
| 2 | Tallis had seen nothing like them in all her life , their hides so thick , their fur patterned in blacks and browns and whites , infested with parasites . |
| 3 | The Shah 's own eyes 's were wet , This was not the first time that his officers had seen him show such emotion . |
| 4 | When Quinn put down the phone , it was the first time Sam had seen him appear visibly shaken . |
| 5 | Harry signed for Palace after Manager Edmund Goodman had seen him play for the amateur side , Kingstonian , in a Surrey Charity Shield Final at The Nest early in the summer of 1921 , when Palace had just won promotion to Division 2 . |
| 6 | At the time of its building , no one in the district had seen anything like it before . |
| 7 | Then , a long-standing commitment had seen me jet off abroad … to disaster . |
| 8 | The same generous spirit had seen him extend his service to the rest of the corridor , and now the whole floor depended on it . |
| 9 | Half the racing world had seen me pick up Nolan and knew I could defend myself . |
| 10 | Erlich had seen nothing like it in CI-3 , in Washington Field Office , where each room had photos of wives stuck onto cork boards , of kids , postcards from vacations all over the world , cartoons , clippings of headlines and a huge blow-up of a quote from an English thriller writer : ‘ The most suspicious , unbelieving , unreasonable , petty , inhuman , sadistic , double-crossing set of bastards in any language [ are ] the people who run counter-espionage departments . ’ |
| 11 | After four days and nights of play , the final table had seen him bust out such other local legends as Clyde ‘ Slippery ’ Coleman and the dread Dave Crunkleton . |
| 12 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
| 13 | Charlotte had seen him turn in the doorway to speak to Mrs Lane , whose placid smile indicated that she knew and welcomed him . |