Example sentences of "[vb past] seen [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was fourteen then , I 'd seen her in National Velvet , and had been barmy about her ever since . |
| 2 | A witness had seen him in deep water , shouting and waving for help . |
| 3 | That long white robe I had seen him in that night was a sort of hospital gown . |
| 4 | She had seen something in those dark tragic eyes , something akin to the anguish betrayed now in Tyler 's . |
| 5 | Those who had seen her in this mood before faded quietly out of reach ; others got their fingers burnt . |
| 6 | Believe me , if I had seen her in any other place , I would have dismissed her as a witch from a mummer 's play . |
| 7 | I did n't know exactly where Leicester Square was , but 1 did know it was n't far from Piccadilly , I had seen it in one of those tourist maps I had in my hand a short while ago , did n't know where it went , probably left it in the cinema showing the explicit sex film which was n't . |
| 8 | She did n't know what it meant but had seen it in some of the old books in the Doctor 's TARDIS . |
| 9 | She had seen it in any case and she was not Sairellen Thackray who would look down her granite nose at him and sneer . |