Example sentences of "[vb past] seen [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana had embraced the dancing and singing lessons with fervour , but Claudia , trailing behind her sister , had been bored to tears by them , and after a time her father had put an end to what he 'd seen as a waste of his money and Claudia 's time . |
| 2 | The little white blossom he 'd seen on the road 's surface was stuck to the boy 's sandshoe ; it was n't a flower , it was a little paper charity flag for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution , the sort you secured to your lapel with a pin . |
| 3 | But he wanted to represent a protean form now , however impossible ; wanted to find a way to fix what he 'd seen at the door of his hotel room , when Pie'oh'pah 's many faces had been shuffled in front of him like cards in an illusionist 's deck . |
| 4 | Nancy was standing in the middle of the yard with her hands to her face , shouting about a black bogey she 'd seen at the window of the hayloft . |
| 5 | Watching , Jess was reminded of a pack of alley cats she 'd seen at the rear of Samson 's smithy one night . |
| 6 | But fascinated as I was by these aquatic birds , I longed to see the falcons and owls I 'd seen at the zoo flying free , and this is a rare occurrence . |
| 7 | She recognized all the people she 'd seen at the dinner table in the Llandogger Trow and at the Frolic . |
| 8 | After the initial wave of guilty surprise , finding that the beautiful girl she 'd seen at the market had been Roman 's younger sister , she 'd taken an immediate liking to Anneliese . |
| 9 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 10 | It unfolded from a slim oblong into a sheet-sized square that flapped and fought in the wind and did n't bear much resemblance to what she 'd seen of the City so far . |
| 11 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |
| 12 | But in the last surge of light he 'd seen beyond the reflection of the glass vizor — at the horror within . |
| 13 | She loved Hyde Park because it was the nearest thing she 'd seen to the country side since she had arrived in the capital . |
| 14 | Well we 'd seen to the back of the garden anyway cos we could see the hedge going across like that at forty five degrees . |
| 15 | the kitchen was piled up , I , I , Dinda took my suitcase upstairs , I 'd seen to the dog , he was very , very good in the car as you know er , I took my suitcase , I could n't get through the bedroom door , the bed clothes on the floor where it 's , where we 've had a sudden hot spell , he had n't folded them up |
| 16 | The outcome of the exercise in the White Paper , I think , had three main parts : one was a new think-tank , the Central Policy Review Staff , which presumably reflected some of the stuff you 'd seen in the United States at Rand and so on ; the other was a new system of , I suppose you would call it , zero-based budgeting , where you would look at longstanding government commitments and see if they should stagger on — that was Programme Analysis and Review ; and , to reduce the weight on Cabinet , there were to be big conglomerate departments , which led to the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment . |
| 17 | After the funeral at Golders Green Crematorium , the entire Williams clan — including cousins neither Pat nor Ken had seen for a quarter of a century — assembled for drinks , ‘ a real old Cockney wake , ’ as Pat put it . |
| 18 | She let Ferdinando teach her how to judge an aubergine ripe and a chicken fresh and then she copied those older women she had seen for the rest . |
| 19 | There is the irony : that , just when British Empirical Socialism had come to terms with the idea of a mixed economy , when it had accepted that for the indefinite future a public sector and a private sector would co-exist , when the tangle of objections which the Webbs had seen to the development of a privately-owned industrial co-operative sector had been so far cleared away as to open the path to a natural growth of industrial democracy by a means which , because it reconciled the rights and interests of labour with those of ownership , would have been sustainable , the Labour Government ignored or overlooked the opportunity . |
| 20 | Increasingly she felt , without putting it into so many words , that all she wanted was to read , to paint , and to make her father into that person she had seen with the Princesse : a light , carefree , witty , happy Jacob . |
| 21 | He began jocularly by saying that he rose to address them with some apprehension , reminded of a piece of graffiti he had seen on a Whitehall notice board which had read , ‘ I used to be indecisive … but now I 'm not so sure , , which brought a few chuckles from the floor . |
| 22 | ‘ For me , I was in the place which I had seen on a globe as a girl — where the pin went through it ! |
| 23 | Today 's world was one in which five-pound notes gushed benignly from the walls of banks at the touch of a button , in which people had only to scribble their names and anything they wished for was theirs ; a world in which — as she had seen on a television programme — unimaginable sums of money flew about the globe at the whim of shirt-sleeved young men who sat tapping idly at keyboards . |
| 24 | Among them was the one she had seen on the Jonquil . |
| 25 | Since the Survey 's seventh question asked visitors to comment on the exhibitions which they had seen on the day of their visit , it was possible , by noting the number of replies which related to each of the three exhibitions , to discover the number of visitors attracted by each exhibition , whatever their assessment of it . |
| 26 | To my utter surprise , Arune went home after one evenings viewing and produced the V-neck sweater with patterning that she had seen on the Video ! |
| 27 | Fairley was said to be ‘ merely carrying out repetitive actions , trying to imitate what he had seen on the video screen ’ . |
| 28 | Like the little half-eaten ostrich so expertly reconstructed by Gould back in England , much of what Darwin had seen on the voyage had to be reassessed and re-evaluated after the event . |
| 29 | According to a picture I had seen on the wall of the Royal Hotel , this Priory had been founded by King Felin O'Connor of Connaught , whose burial place it became . |
| 30 | Something came to her , a graffito she had seen on the wall of a burned-out Josephite temple in Denver , back when she was with the girlie gangcult . |