Example sentences of "see it before " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there is a high proportion of people who know a good deal about what they are looking at and may even have seen it before . |
| 2 | He had not seen it before in his panic to ring the ambulance and get Mrs Popple to hospital . |
| 3 | I 'd had a feeling I 'd seen it before , but I 'd no idea they were that good friends ! |
| 4 | He had liked it terrifically when he had seen it before but had n't wanted to say : it seemed girlish to him to think anything of an animal . |
| 5 | It was , it was indeed , a virus so small that the eye of man had never seen it before . |
| 6 | From almost every hilltop it was possible to see the great column of smoke , still far , but much nearer than they had ever seen it before . |
| 7 | All I can say is that at the time everything fitted together perfectly into so glaringly obvious a pattern that I was amazed I had never seen it before . |
| 8 | ‘ You ever seen it before ? ’ |
| 9 | Before writing this I 'd never actually seen it before , but after playing it I realise I did n't miss anything . |
| 10 | His stance , his poise — Quinn had seen it before . |
| 11 | I 've seen it before , it 's part of his make-up . ’ |
| 12 | Ramsay had seen it before , but had never been inside . |
| 13 | Frankie had seen it before and thought I would n't like it and tried to dissuade me from going in . |
| 14 | It did n't complement anything much , but he had n't seen it before . |
| 15 | He had never seen it before . |
| 16 | Have you seen it before , in Maupassant 's ‘ La Parure ’ ( 'The Necklace' ) or Henry James 's ‘ The Beast in the Jungle ’ ? |
| 17 | I should have seen it before . |
| 18 | Werner knew what it contained even though he had never seen it before . |
| 19 | The second ( 2.5.4 ) may even surprise and delight you if you 've not seen it before . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'll have seen it before , ’ he said . |
| 21 | ‘ Funny I 've never seen it before , the times I 've been in your Gran 's house , ’ he said . |
| 22 | This child had been asked to look at his foot carefully ‘ as if he 's never seen it before ’ . |
| 23 | So I think that was pretty good I think it was brilliant in fact ceiling you 've never seen it before worked out how to spell it . |
| 24 | ‘ I have n't seen it before . ’ |
| 25 | I had seen it before , many times , as a child . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , it surprised me , but I have n't seen it before . ’ |
| 27 | I have n't seen it before . |
| 28 | ‘ I suspect I have seen it before . ’ |
| 29 | Rincewind tried to remember where he had seen it before . |
| 30 | I 've never seen it before , not even in those few moments that stayed so vividly in my memory . |