Example sentences of "[vb past] seen [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to marry this judgment with the memory of the sturdy young woman I 'd seen joking in the glade ; who had come breezily into The Pightle telling me to water the plants and daring me to a duel of wits with Edward ; who had seemed so certain of me over against his cautious vacillation. fragile was not the first word that would have occurred to me , unless I had overlooked something vital — something which , I remembered , Bob had noted . |
| 2 | As he reflected on the brutality of what he had seen done in the name of religion in the Civil War , Taylor asked himself , ‘ If persons be Christians in their lives and Christians in their profession , … why should I hate such persons whom God loves and who love God , because … they have not the same opinion as I have ? ’ |
| 3 | I edged my way along clutching the banking , till a young man in a bright red T-shirt and a small boy with a grey sack , who I had seen skipping up the path earlier , forced me to adopt a more dignified , upright position . |
| 4 | But as he passed the crossroads and came to that part of the road that wound down into Chesney he could n't help recalling the man he had seen skipping among the trees . |
| 5 | With a hissing intake of breath , Benny grabbed Petion 's arm , and pointed to the figure they had seen dragged into the open . |
| 6 | The next day Walter Miller of the Edison Company was asked whether all the musical records he sent would have the title on the end of the cylinder , as they had seen arranged at the laboratory the day before , to which he replied , ‘ Yes sir , they will be fixed up that way ’ . |
| 7 | Tony also mentioned how he had visited a local centre for the young unemployed which he had seen advertised in the local newspaper . |
| 8 | Charlotte Campbell was more than delighted to have received a reply to her letter for the position of children 's nanny which she had seen advertised in The Times . |
| 9 | Coffin was still pondering on the significance of what he had seen written on the piece of paper from Place 's jacket . |
| 10 | This I had seen happen in the lives of others , resulting in the despairing situation of looking on hopelessly at all the work and tender loving care lavished on a place being relentlessly returned to rampaging nature , and unable to muster the physical strength and mental resolve to do anything about it . |
| 11 | Who was the tall man I had seen standing against the moon ? |
| 12 | She looked at them one by one ; she nodded to the people she had seen sewing by the fountain ; she smiled at the old woman and the boy . |