Example sentences of "[vb past] seen [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked the old man if he knew Miss Lavant , if he 'd seen her at the fete , in clothes with buttercups on them . |
| 2 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 3 | She stared at him and , as her eyes met his , once again , like the moment he 'd seen her in the pool , she seemed unable to look away . |
| 4 | He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired . |
| 5 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 6 | Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm |
| 7 | He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile . |
| 8 | Lucy reckoned that , for the man in charge , he had some staggeringly dull tasks to handle ; she 'd seen him in the stockroom once , counting every bottle in every crate of tonic water . |
| 9 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 10 | I 'd seen it along the end of the track . |
| 11 | Anyway I went there and I was impressed , I 'd seen it from the ship and I completely concur with everything that 's been said . |
| 12 | Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop |
| 13 | It was a look she recognised instantly , although it was the first time she 'd seen it in the flesh . |
| 14 | ‘ I told her I 'd seen you over the weekend , ’ she relayed . |
| 15 | I know I did seen it on the T V , different places , but I , I did n't know anything about here . |
| 16 | But she had seen them on the newsreel before the big film , creaking and groaning across the land , their great limbless , legless form crushing and grinding all that was in their way . |
| 17 | Members were pleased when constituents said that they had seen them on the box , and only one Member had received complaints that he had not been seen . |
| 18 | This is the second skirmish in a brief cross-border raid for Edinburgh 's Joyriders ( the previous evening had seen them on the charity gig trail with Mega City Four in Tufnell Park ) , out to bludgeon the capital 's callow youth into line with their handsomely appointed tuff-pop manifesto . |
| 19 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 20 | He had seen them at the County Show , where he had gone for the rabbits , all those girls with plaits and scrubbed faces and clean gloves , doing an exhibition ride . |
| 21 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 22 | He had seen them through the gates . |
| 23 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 24 | He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest . |
| 25 | Leslie was aware that most people " can not Read at all " , but said he had seen them in the streets " Gather together about one that can Read " and listen to a newspaper being read aloud . |
| 26 | The man standing by my side said that he had seen them behind the terminal . |
| 27 | She had seen them around the hotel for the last five days . |
| 28 | She allowed her fingers to roam , her eyes tightly shut , her mind vividly picturing him as she had seen him for the very first time . |
| 29 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |
| 30 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |