Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] seen a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I 'd just seen a colleague come and go in less than three months … |
| 2 | I went to see the semi-finals of the Midland Bank Championships in Brighton — the first time I 'd ever seen a tennis match live . |
| 3 | I do n't think he 'd ever seen a woman shop that fast ! ’ |
| 4 | I 'd also seen a probation person . |
| 5 | She 'd never seen a boy so thin and pale-looking . |
| 6 | Angalo had found a pebble that was almost the right shape to attach to a twig with strips torn off his coat ; he 'd never seen a stone axe in his life , but he had a definite feeling that there were useful things that could be done with a stone tied to the end of a stick . |
| 7 | Anyone would think you 'd never seen a chocolate before ! |
| 8 | He also agreed he 'd never seen a skull fracture caused by a blow to the nose . |
| 9 | I 'd never seen a weapon like that before — only military rifles . |
| 10 | Anyone would think he 'd never seen a Kobold before . |
| 11 | I had only seen a wall there before , and now my heart leapt when I saw , through the Bride and the Bachelors , through the Milky Way and the Chariot and the Grinder and the Sieves - someone moving . |
| 12 | Mr Luck said that the Mail on Sunday 's critic had only seen a rehearsal for the play . |
| 13 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 14 | In February the clergy were outlawed ; although Winchelsey 's response was to excommunicate the violators of Clericis Laicos , Edward had already seen a way past this . |
| 15 | I had already seen a couple of ringed seals , several eider duck , many Arctic terns and kittiwakes and a few scruffy immature glaucous gulls before I crept into my bunk to sleep . |
| 16 | In the foyer he paused to look at the posters , and learned that he had just seen a comedy called Pull The Other One ! |
| 17 | The blacks had just seen a film , ‘ Mississippi Burning ’ , in which Klansmen beat a black child to death . |
| 18 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 19 | Of course Boy had seen inside a lot of different men 's houses , but this was the first man 's life he had ever watched at such close quarters , the first time he had ever seen a man taking care of himself , the first time he had ever seen another man living day after day after day . |
| 20 | No human eye had ever seen a hound like this one . |
| 21 | It was the first time that Jehan had ever seen a Sechem at a loss for words . |
| 22 | Neither Ari or Nathan had ever seen a place like it . |
| 23 | No one had ever seen a bride or groom walk to their wedding ; even the very poor found a car for that day and in the old days they had gone by trap or sidecar . |
| 24 | Nobody had ever seen a baby before , and when the mother saw his little body and his little feet and hands , and his little cunning face , she thought ‘ why he just looks like a little man . ’ |
| 25 | Ell had once seen a vidfilm where that had been used for an escape bid . |
| 26 | He had once seen a naturalist on the television who seemed to him to be an analogue of himself . |
| 27 | Franca had once seen a film of a burial at sea , how the coffin slid with a curious slowness down toward the waves and entered them without a splash . |
| 28 | As he walked away from the house , Mark had remembered that it was along this street , with its brightly — almost garishly — painted houses that Sophia had once seen a cluster of what she took to be exotic tropical fruits in one of the windows , only to realise that they were tomatoes put there to ripen . |
| 29 | A woman had also seen a man in a boat sailing away from the beach . |
| 30 | It was only later , when I was lying in my bed , with the neon lights of a bar across the road flickering on the curtains and music blaring , that I remembered Ward standing in the saloon of the Cutty Sark and asking Iris Sunderby who she had in mind as navigator , who the man was who had convinced her he had also seen a ship locked in the ice of the Weddell Sea . |