Example sentences of "[adv] seen [pers pn] [prep] his " in BNC.
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1 | Frankie dressed himself , and he looked smarter than I had ever seen him in his check suit , waistcoat and matching cap . |
2 | Never seen him without his crash helmet on ; could be an albino or a Rastafarian for all he knew . |
3 | She had never seen him with his hair cut short , and the absence of the red-blond locks made him for a moment unrecognisable . |
4 | He glanced at Helen as though he had never seen her in his life , and made no attempt to get up . |
5 | 1 small twentieth-century ornamental dinner plate with picture of Scarborough Beach ( this is optional , actually , but I always find it adds spice to a tour of a house if , when interest is flagging , you quietly get it out and prop it up on a table and then say innocently to an attendant : ‘ What 's the story behind that plate ? ’ and then wait to see what sort of explanation is invented by someone who has never seen it in his or her life before ) |