Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [vb past] see a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His houses are always monuments of excellent craftsmanship , but as one eighteenth-century critic who had seen a number of them observed , although ‘ all of them [ are ] convenient and handsome … there is a great sameness in the plans , which proves he had but little invention ’ . |
| 2 | ( Sometimes this involves a quasi-symbolic element : for example in moments of danger they remember a bear they had seen a cave by the sea ( pp. 79 , 95 , 102 , 179 , 182 ) . |
| 3 | Shannon had never been able to believe that ; as a child she 'd seen a photograph of her father , and even then she 'd been stunned to silence by his incredible good looks . |
| 4 | The doctor had come and given her two tablets to take , he had said there was n't a thing wrong with he that would n't be wrong with any red-blooded girl who had seen a fatal accident . |
| 5 | On his first excursion he 'd seen a Mercedes parked outside so he 'd turned back , returned to his hotel room further down The Street . |
| 6 | This afternoon we went to see a new workers ' housing estate and visited some homes . |
| 7 | This renewed emphasis on quickening the pace of reform was in accordance with China 's recent economic development which had seen a move away from self-imposed austerity measures towards the pursuit of increased levels of foreign investment and exports and more rapid industrial growth . |
| 8 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 9 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 10 | Stephen told them how that morning he had seen a girl out on the moor alone . |
| 11 | In the past I 'd seen a fair bit of Lloyd . |
| 12 | A nun told us , for example , of a man who had seen a massacre take place in his village . |
| 13 | But Maggie had heard him draw notes out of it which rent the air with their sadness , and through his music she 'd seen a side of him he 'd kept hidden from the world . |
| 14 | The deadening sense of obligation with which Coleridge had returned to Bristol was now swiftly transformed , until , as a ‘ neutral spectator ’ ( perhaps Cottle ) told Thomas De Quincey , ‘ if ever in his life he had seen a man under deep fascination , and what he would have called desperately in love , Coleridge , in relation to Miss F , was that man ’ . |
| 15 | Just about the last thing she wanted to see a noisy film all about Rock ‘ n Roll . |
| 16 | Over his shoulder I 'd seen a pair of beat coppers walking by . |
| 17 | As her eyes got used to the darkness she began to see a tunnel-the interior of a tunnel . |
| 18 | Every day on his way to school he had seen a brooch in the jeweller 's window , the price showing on a card beside it . |
| 19 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
| 20 | Another neighbour told the inquest he 'd seen a car with two occupants drive away from the farm just before the barn caught fire . |
| 21 | When a schoolfriend told a neighbour he had seen a body , the boy said it was a blow-up dummy his father had left lying around . |
| 22 | It was the first time I had seen a ship built from scratch and it was quite an experience to watch the steel plates being cut by their ingenious machine which controlled a cutter as it drew our the required shapes direct from the blueprint , converting everything to full scale as it cut . |
| 23 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |
| 24 | And they started that and they were sent out to this big villa and er that was the first time I had seen a continental headboard and er we could n't understand what it was you know . |
| 25 | ‘ The last time I went to see a specialist about my knee , I was ready to pack it in if he 'd told me I was facing another year out . |
| 26 | That was the first time I 'd seen a man 's penis so clearly and my mouth and throat went dry . |
| 27 | That was the only time I 'd seen a stick being used . |
| 28 | Another time he had seen a tourist , a non-English speaker , make the discovery that his wallet had been taken , with his passport and everything he had . |