Example sentences of "'d seen [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I said I 'd seen Sam hanging about on the towpath with a bunch of yobs . ’ |
| 32 | It was early one evening , coming out of the Empire in Leicester Square with a head full of Harrison Ford , that she 'd seen Gary again . |
| 33 | Occasionally one or other of the girls left the path to go and pick a mushroom that she 'd seen half-concealed behind a root or stone , or pushing through the surface of the pine-needles . |
| 34 | Connections : I 'd seen Nevil at Sedgeley House ; I 'd seen Jo at the Mimosa Club where Nevil was supposed to work , or at least beat up barmen . |
| 35 | If ever she 'd seen determination shining from a man 's face she could see it shining from Alexander Vass 's now . |
| 36 | Because , when he 'd seen Olivier , just after 1945 , had n't he said there was a man after his own heart ? |
| 37 | And I heard Monks say that he 'd seen Oliver in the street , and that he knew at once Oliver was the child he was looking for , although I could n't hear why . |
| 38 | ‘ The last time I 'd seen Nelson was in the courtroom in 1964 , ’ Mrs Sisulu said . |
| 39 | He 'd seen Nancy and Frank embracing in the back of the car , so closely entwined that it had been impossible to guess what else they were doing . |
| 40 | The lady at the dole office was nicely dressed in flowered cotton , she 'd seen Alex cry once and got her some tissues and everything was suddenly made easy . |
| 41 | He 'd seen salamanders before , of course , but they had been small specimens . |
| 42 | Henrietta came down to lunch , still shivering slightly , in a sweater and jeans , and refused to discuss her experience , telling Jacqueline not to be bloody silly when she asked if she 'd seen crocodiles . |
| 43 | Of course , the others laughed at him but he insisted and said that at about the same time I thought I 'd seen Sir Bartholomew , a stranger had arrived in the village late at night and stopped at the ale-house for food and drink . |
| 44 | ‘ Three times , ’ he 'd said ; he 'd seen Elise just three times , and then purely for business reasons . |
| 45 | Once she 'd seen Claudia watching her and been encouraged by a broad smile . |
| 46 | and how he 'd seen prison and er they 'd said they had n't any prisons but he found one and erm hospitals and all that sort of thing and at the end of the week 's visit erm one of the very high ups , whom he named and I 've forgotten the name of him , I think I 'll just use that , thank you erm sent for h he , he was brought before him as it were and the man said to him are there any questions er at the end of your week that you want to ask and he said well perhaps there is one he said erm Winston Churchill was here erm a month or two , a few months ago |
| 47 | If she was watching , and whether she 'd seen Lucy 's progress . |
| 48 | Yeah I thought I 'd seen cloud on top on the hills . |
| 49 | Lifted and dropped his shoulders a few times , he 'd seen people do it when they tried on clothes in stores . |
| 50 | He tried very hard not to cough like he 'd seen people cough in westerns when they tried whisky for the first time , and got away with just clearing his throat rather loudly ( he looked round at the curtains , afraid somebody might have heard ) . |
| 51 | She 'd seen people nod to him , shake his hand . |
| 52 | R r right around the country in all sorts of different locations , we 'd seen applications coming forward on a speculative basis . |
| 53 | This was the first time she 'd seen Guy 's bedroom in daylight . |
| 54 | It was weeks since she 'd seen Elaine , and she had n't even asked her how she felt about James being given the general managership , albeit only temporarily as yet . |
| 55 | She 'd seen Leo angry , mocking , bleak , but she had never seen him look so coldly murderous , so devoid of any human feeling , and she shivered . |
| 56 | Grant saw them immediately , traversing the same passage they 'd seen Forster and Lawton follow . |
| 57 | Just that she 'd seen Dionne so often sad and unsure . |
| 58 | Without waiting , I asked her , ‘ You told me once that you 'd seen Sister Kenny treat a polio patient . ’ |
| 59 | They 'd seen Miss Lavant on the promenade and about the town , always walking slowly , sometimes with a neat wicker basket . |
| 60 | I 'd seen Miss Mallender walking out along the pontoon to the boat and I 'd turned away from the window over the sink to 'and Mr Dysart 'is coffee when there was this great whoomph outside . |