Example sentences of "i have see [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd seen plenty of funerals , but this was the first I 'd been involved in and I was fascinated by the splendid flowers and the well-groomed horses of the hearse and I forgot , for a moment , my fear . |
| 2 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 3 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
| 4 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 5 | I thought I 'd seen him before somewhere . |
| 6 | I tried to think of when I 'd seen him after that , apart from when we got our degrees — him proud and posing for the family album , me drunk and disorderly . |
| 7 | I decided I did n't want a toffee-apple any more , even though I 'd seen one with a great wedge of toffee stuck to the bottom , so I pretended I 'd seen Marie passing in front of the window and I ran out and shouted , " Wait on , Marie , I 've an important message for you . " |
| 8 | I was fourteen then , I 'd seen her in National Velvet , and had been barmy about her ever since . |
| 9 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 10 | ‘ I told her I 'd seen you over the weekend , ’ she relayed . |
| 11 | Oh , it was terrible , I 'd seen it on video , it 's really sad . |
| 12 | I 'd seen it along the end of the track . |
| 13 | I thought I 'd seen it in here let's have a look . |
| 14 | Anyway I went there and I was impressed , I 'd seen it from the ship and I completely concur with everything that 's been said . |
| 15 | It was the first time I 'd seen anyone in labour and I made a silent vow that when I was married I was n't going to have any babies if this was how you had to suffer . |
| 16 | Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’ |
| 17 | I had seen them with the eyes of a young buy , but Edward who knew them well was able to interpret them with the mind of a man . |
| 18 | The only occasions on which I had seen them in operation they had failed lamentably . |
| 19 | I had seen them in Kano clutching their swords as they slept in shop doorways where they were employed as night-watchmen . |
| 20 | ‘ Nicola was happier than I had seen her for months , ’ he said . |
| 21 | I had seen her before somewhere . |
| 22 | It was the first time I had seen her in a pale colour — a light grey dress which made her seem shadowy . |
| 23 | ( Looking at her , I was often reminded of the famous Lina Cavalieri as I had seen her in photographs . |
| 24 | Believe me , if I had seen her in any other place , I would have dismissed her as a witch from a mummer 's play . |
| 25 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
| 26 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |
| 27 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 28 | She had been as insignificant in appearance as all the other girls I had seen him with : as insignificant as I was myself . |
| 29 | I had seen him on a number of occasions during my childhood in Abyssinia where my father had been British Minister at Addis Ababa , but this was the first time I spoke to him . |
| 30 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |