Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] seen [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some days he would follow a man , a man he 'd just seen in the street , for minutes or for hours , thinking he would go up to him and ask him if he knew the way . |
| 2 | Sergeant Newton Barrios had investigated more than seven hundred traffic fatalities in the city of New Orleans , but this was the worst he 'd ever seen on the St Claude Avenue Bridge . |
| 3 | I saw the biggest , steepest cylinders of water I 'd ever seen from the relative sanctuary of the beach , and Pottz finally landed the world title . |
| 4 | Most of the food was of a kind that she 'd never seen in the shops ; there was no wine or beer , but Belov had a hip-flask of vodka . |
| 5 | Every time Dustin saw his name in block letters on the marquee of a movie house , he was assailed with thoughts of his own mortality , a subject that constantly obsessed him , especially as he had already seen into the abyss . |
| 6 | A good deal of the historical footage I had already seen over the years and some of it , such as the dreadful footage of the Warsaw Ghetto , was only too familiar . |
| 7 | On transferring his official residence from Burgos to Madrid , in October , Franco " toured the Sierra de Guadarrama , looking for a place he had already seen during the war " in which he planned to locate his war memorial . |
| 8 | Of this , comparatively little was from Walter Machin himself , and some of these Greg had already seen in the Sunday paper articles . |
| 9 | This fluidity was partly made necessary by a rapid growth in population , and it combined with the growth in population to make the period of this book one of social and economic change such as Europe had not seen since the fall of the Roman Empire in the West . |
| 10 | A NUCLEAR test veteran has been reunited with two Fijian pals he had not seen since the notorious Christmas Island atomic bomb tests 34 years ago . |
| 11 | She had not seen beyond the violence : she had not planned for any other outcome . |
| 12 | She was about to turn to him and demand to be taken back when he suddenly swung on to a track she had not seen from the distance . |
| 13 | When he took the ale into the warm farmhouse living room and saw everyone standing around the crackling log fire with food and drinks in their hands , he thought again of what he had just seen through the kitchen window . |
| 14 | Frequently a Georgian house which I had always seen from the road and considered to be all of one date , was revealed , when I came to knock on its door , to be purely a façade built on to a much earlier building . |
| 15 | Another sneeze dawned and he reached yet again for his handkerchief , an object which Milton felt was about as disgusting as anything he had ever seen outside the occasional severed head in a motorway accident . |
| 16 | The walls were brick lined and the floor covered with dull tiles set in a herringbone pattern that reminded her of a Roman villa she had once seen near the South Coast . |
| 17 | His face was so dark and wizened that he reminded Corbett of a monkey he had once seen in the royal menagerie in the Tower of London . |
| 18 | It was like one of the rooms Little Billy had once seen in the Queen 's Dolls ' House at Windsor Castle . |
| 19 | He had also seen into the mind . |
| 20 | Then I bit into the first slice of bread ; home made , plastered thickly with farm butter and topped by a lavish layer of heather honey from the long row of hives I had often seen on the edge of the moor above . |
| 21 | Close by squatted a very young Tominah whom we had often seen behind the older priests but had never talked to . |
| 22 | The weather was fine and they were enjoying their walk when they came across the neglected remains of a large house which they had often seen in the distance from the pump-house . |
| 23 | Sandra 's friends would all be so much younger than herself , and then she heard that the guest list comprised all age groups and included many of her old local friends whom she had n't seen for the past two years , and so she decided to go . |
| 24 | Soon it would begin to grow dark , and she had n't seen to the house yet . |
| 25 | And moreover Clara had even seen in the phrase some dim , far-off flicker of comfort , because , harsh though it was , it was not without a consoling figurative literary beauty . |