Example sentences of "he [verb] seen [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was elsewhere on the course at the time , but since then he has seen it replayed many times on film . |
| 2 | The craft has been his hobby for the past years , and in that time he has seen it grow immensely in popularity . |
| 3 | In imitative play he might assume a role in imitation of one with which he is familiar and might handle equipment as he has seen it used by others . |
| 4 | He has seen it happen . |
| 5 | In this poem you get the feeling that Owen is not actually taking part in this but he has seen it happening before and so , unlike all the rest , it is not completely based on his own experience . |
| 6 | As I got out I caught the enigmatic Mr Goodson sneaking in through the front door , but if he 'd seen me pull up , he did n't wait to say Hello . |
| 7 | Moore 's start in athletics came relatively late when he was 14 : ‘ One of the PE teachers at school had a son at Birchfield and , after he 'd seen me jumping well at school , he said , ‘ Why do n't you come down ? ’ |
| 8 | He 'd seen me working only once . |
| 9 | He 'd seen me read . |
| 10 | Dammit , he 'd seen her looking at him — that really rankled . |
| 11 | And Philip remembered how he 'd seen her go out two weeks ago with yellow flowers in the back seat of the car . |
| 12 | Eventually he remembered — he 'd seen her hanging out with Jim Hendrix in the sixties . |
| 13 | The first time he 'd seen her had been at Dave 's , and Dave had kept a possessive arm round her all evening , warning others away . |
| 14 | All the time he 's writing as if he 'd seen her undressing , but there 's something just a bit more theatrical about the last two . ’ |
| 15 | He 'd seen her buy the cards and stamps and go through the list of presents to get , seen her write letters to elderly relatives , make the puddings and the mince pies , clean the house , polish the little pieces of silver and brass she 'd acquired , make long shopping lists and then go out and buy things , wrap presents and take out their old Christmas tree and sort through the ornaments . |
| 16 | The slightly fatherly attendant said he was sure she was safely asleep , as he 'd seen her returning from the washroom at the end of the car and climbing up to her bunk . |
| 17 | ‘ We saw someone called Martin Foulds , ’ her mother chipped in ; ‘ he said he 'd seen you heading in this direction . |
| 18 | This did n't seem the time to remind him that he had seen her wearing considerably less . |
| 19 | An officer who worked alongside her for many years interpreted the fact that he had seen her kneeling at the mercy seat more than any other officer as a sign of her close relationship with God and the constant need for the kind of realignment which requires a certain humbling of oneself . |
| 20 | Robin Day told me he had seen her lunching yesterday with Ralph Grunte — it 's rumoured that she 's after his seat . |
| 21 | The friar was sure he had seen her lying in the graveyard amongst the tombs with Simon the tiler , and he a married man with three children . |
| 22 | J.D. had told Sally-Anne Tunstall that if it was inconvenient to visit him she could always post her column to him ; he had seen her growing more and more responsible as the weeks went by , and he was no longer so worried about her safety . |
| 23 | It was so insultingly different from the embrace he had seen her allow Underwood earlier in the day , that on a mad impulse he made a clumsy grab at her , and pulled her towards him , with a hollow imitation of a roguish laugh . |
| 24 | He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress . |
| 25 | He had seen one advertised , a small upright Bösendorfer . |
| 26 | ‘ Oh , Tilly , it was a foolish thing … supposing he had seen me standing outside his house ? ’ |
| 27 | And he had seen me walking from my hotel apartment with Dana — Americano , he said disdainfully . |
| 28 | And my magic wrought true — for it was into your time I came , to Starr Hills , where I had walked four hundred years before ; and coming to meet me was a man who asked me simply if I were a mermaid , for he had seen me walking out of the sea . ’ |
| 29 | I thought that he was already a man when I was born , that he had seen me growing up , and I thought of the strange , sad , frightening creatures who haunted the borders of the woods watching the children play . |
| 30 | He had seen them leave with his own eyes . |