Example sentences of "[vb past] seen the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You would n't think it so unexpected if you 'd seen the first nightclub I bought . ’ |
| 2 | so that 's English , and I 've got ta get , er he reckons he 'll get a B grade for the er lit , but I was so cheesed off with that erm piece I got today , thirty five and thirty five , one mark off being er an A , he put at the bottom aargh , if only you 'd seen the lousy ending , cos he said if I 'd got the , an extra couple of sentences it er would of been forty eight , forty , so that 's , so annoying , but I 've now got ta write an informal letter , I do n't know how that comes under informal letter |
| 3 | It only reminded her of how she and Trish had hooted with laughter when they 'd seen the engraved invitations that had gone out in three languages for this evening 's showing . |
| 4 | ‘ And Doyle never referred to the fact that he 'd seen the Asian girl near to Charlie 's ? ’ |
| 5 | She stepped back , horrified , but not before she 'd seen the naked arms and legs , the bright yellow hair against the emerald green pillow , the broad naked back of the man . |
| 6 | I 'd seen the naked soul of my Mother . |
| 7 | ‘ You would n't say that if you 'd seen the old Zambia in action , ’ Leila said , pulling a sour face . |
| 8 | She 'd seen the same thing happen to too many others in the music business , not because they 'd tried and failed to be carbon copies of Aurora Blake , but simply because they 'd tried to force a talent they simply did n't possess . |
| 9 | There were others ( such as Howard Teicher , who had gone on the trip to Tehran and had seen the spare parts in the back of the plane ) who were ‘ not in all the boxes within the boxes but some element of the box ’ . |
| 10 | The local councils had seen the legal implications of common-law indecency in the writ of mandamus awarded against the Greater London Council for granting a local ‘ X ’ certificate to the film More About the Language of Love . |
| 11 | Her spirits swooped up again , although there had been no mention of spray-painting , and he had seen the scribbled slogans on the envelope on the table . |
| 12 | Det Supt Albert Kirby , the officer in charge of the inquiry , said that a woman claimed she had seen the two youths in the Strand at 2:30pm . |
| 13 | She had seen the two women leave the hospital with babies in their arms , so all she had to do was discover where the van had taken them . |
| 14 | She had seen the two letters . |
| 15 | Mr Bowen said that ambulancemen had seen the two bodies lying on the living room floor . |
| 16 | How much worse must the recollection be for Barney , who had seen the hideous reality ? |
| 17 | Falconry is not a sport confined to women , but on this occasion I felt I had seen the perfect emblem for the ‘ Mistress of the Beasts ’ . |
| 18 | In the former district prosperity lasted throughout the war years , which had seen the increasing use of the flying shuttle ( spring loom ) . |
| 19 | There is no space to go into detail about the ding-dong and the relevance of that remark , but it is gentlemanly mayhem at its best and I wish I had seen the first encounters between the CSIRO and its critic , who , I infer , also had a go at the research on skeleton weed . |
| 20 | No one in the cars had seen the tottering figure further down the road . |
| 21 | Now that he was down at ground level it was not so easy for Patrick to locate the dell where he had seen the immaculate golfer . |
| 22 | Rain sat facing the door , and did not relax until she had seen the pedlar walk by . |
| 23 | Both comprehensibility ratings and recall scores were highest when the subject had seen the complete context picture before listening to the passage . |
| 24 | But she had known as soon as she had seen the glazed eye that this was death . |
| 25 | A witness had seen the retired steel worker in the middle of the road . |
| 26 | She moved with natural grace , gliding between the tables , approaching customers who showed an interest to give them an extra twirl , unbuttoning the little figure-hugging jacket and posing with her hand on her waist , rucking up the jacket slightly to display the blouse underneath as she had seen the professional models do . |
| 27 | Q : I thought you said your husband had seen the Dark Thing ? |
| 28 | She hurried out , but not before Harriet had seen the haunted look was back in her eyes . |
| 29 | While all eyes were on the majestic bird above them , Tallis had seen the fluttering movement of a more sinister flock , in the high trees around the river . |
| 30 | At the Nanaimo Hotel after the coal-mine show , two of our engineers who shared a room down the hall knocked on our door one evening just before dusk to ask if we had seen the strange behaviour of the sea-gulls flying outside our hotel room windows , which faced the sea . |