Example sentences of "[verb] seen he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One , an older school , has seen him as a noble if embattled statesman . |
| 2 | A SUPERMARKET assistant recognised a man who tried to pay for goods with a stolen credit card — because she 'd seen him as a strippergram . |
| 3 | He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile . |
| 4 | Oh fine , yet Jo was just saying on the phone there that she 'd seen him in a catalogue . |
| 5 | Lucy reckoned that , for the man in charge , he had some staggeringly dull tasks to handle ; she 'd seen him in the stockroom once , counting every bottle in every crate of tonic water . |
| 6 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 7 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
| 8 | As for King Arthur , Tolkien might well have seen him as a symptom of English vagueness . |
| 9 | You must have seen him at the pictures . ‘ |
| 10 | If , for example , old man Jordan had come into the kitchen at that moment , Wycliffe might have seen him in the mirror ; but what of it ? |
| 11 | Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years . |
| 12 | Whoever was inside could have seen him from the windows . |
| 13 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 14 | Cos I 've seen him about a lot . |
| 15 | I 've seen him at the club many times . |
| 16 | She says I 've seen him at the shop but he did n't speak . |
| 17 | She says I 've seen him at the shop but he did n't speak . |
| 18 | She says I 've seen him at the shop but he did n't speak . |
| 19 | She says I 've seen him at the shop but he did n't speak . |
| 20 | Yeah I 've seen him on the telly |
| 21 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 22 | I 've seen him in a proper leather jacket . |
| 23 | He 's got a week 's growth of beard which seems to be permanent , judging from the times I 've seen him in the past . |
| 24 | But the fact that he 's a born racer , I mean I know him quite well , I 've seen him around a lot , I would talk to him a lot , so would other colleagues here , every race since that decision , I think without trying , he persuaded himself , we were able to persuade him without trying too hard that maybe he should reconsider ; I think time did the rest . |
| 25 | He could only assume that , being unaware of his true status as a DIA agent , the DEA and its oversight agency , the FBI , had seen him as a soft target , and framed the passport violation charge as a means of silencing an awkward witness without realizing who he was or the damage they were doing . |
| 26 | He was as perfect to her now as he had been when she had seen him as a child . |
| 27 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 28 | His crooked smile was very much in evidence and Matey could have told her that since her arrival Dr Neil had been happier than she had seen him for a long time — there had been fewer backslidings towards the ‘ nasty whisky ’ since McAllister had appeared in his life to provide him with such rich amusement . |
| 29 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 30 | I had seen him on a number of occasions during my childhood in Abyssinia where my father had been British Minister at Addis Ababa , but this was the first time I spoke to him . |