Example sentences of "[indef pn] [pron] [verb] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | There ai n't nothin' I 've not seen before under there . ’ |
| 2 | I do the same if someone I 've never seen comes up and uses one of my names . |
| 3 | But if you were describing my act to someone who 'd never seen it , what words would you use ? ’ |
| 4 | Zach hesitated at first , but luckily someone who had n't seen him do any tap dancing egged him on . |
| 5 | So , if I asked you to describe paper to someone who had never seen it before , you might suggest they visualise it as a sort of hard , smooth ‘ cloth ’ . |
| 6 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 7 | This makes them more varied to look at , and in general perhaps more picturesque , but it is not easy to make them intelligible to someone who has not seen them . |
| 8 | So if you need to approach someone who has n't seen you , you should touch them to show you are there , especially someone who may be confused . |
| 9 | 1 small twentieth-century ornamental dinner plate with picture of Scarborough Beach ( this is optional , actually , but I always find it adds spice to a tour of a house if , when interest is flagging , you quietly get it out and prop it up on a table and then say innocently to an attendant : ‘ What 's the story behind that plate ? ’ and then wait to see what sort of explanation is invented by someone who has never seen it in his or her life before ) |
| 10 | A chauffeur , someone she 'd never seen before , brought the car to the front door . |
| 11 | As Donna climbed the stairs slowly she looked around at the dozens of people entering and leaving the building , wondering how the hell she was supposed to find someone she 'd never seen before . |
| 12 | A crazy man , someone she had never seen before , took a shot at her from a rooftop . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's — it 's weird to be compared to someone you 've never seen . ’ |
| 14 | In Task 44 Extract 1 , for example , we might need to know the political opinions , or temperament , or personal involvement of the person for whom we are writing a report of the demonstration ; and in Extract 2 , a friend with whom we correspond might be nine or ninety , someone we saw last week , or someone we have not seen for decades . |
| 15 | Nobody wants a florid letter from someone they have never seen before but as an actor your style and personality must come through sufficiently — a bare list of parts played wo n't convey much . |
| 16 | She said : ‘ He was n't somebody I 'd ever seen in here before , perhaps that 's why I took notice . |
| 17 | Somebody I 'd never seen before said hello and |
| 18 | tell you a true story , right , tell you a story there 's nobody you 've ever seen |
| 19 | ‘ That sort of behaviour is nothing you do n't see every week in the Italian League , ’ added Wilkinson . |
| 20 | ‘ After all , there 's nothing you have n't seen before . ’ |
| 21 | It 's only basic human biology — nothing you have n't seen before . ’ |
| 22 | He led her into the bedroom , which was glowing with an intense white light like nothing she had ever seen in England . |
| 23 | A head like none she 'd ever seen before bobbed out of the waves , whiskered and grinning and as big as her whole body . |
| 24 | ‘ Now I 'm hoping we can see the best of Barnes because since I 've been Liverpool manager it is something I 've not seen . ’ |
| 25 | If I 'm right , it 's something I 've never seen before . |
| 26 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 27 | " All he did something I 've never seen before . |
| 28 | Printer port or something I 've never seen that before on a menu |
| 29 | I would have left had I not seen he was wearing something I had n't seen on him before , and had to ask him about it , certain I knew what the answer would be . |
| 30 | Something I had n't seen before . |