Example sentences of "seen [pron] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | When has anyone among you seen me with a gloomy face ? |
2 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
3 | This is me , I goes , I goes I 'll let it slip this time cos you have n't seen me for a few weeks . |
4 | True , I had the somewhat grisly T-shirt and track-suit bottoms which had gamely seen me through a two-hour run-through , but they were in a state and could probably have walked unaided to the BBC on their own . |
5 | You have n't seen me since the bad time with the lawyers . ’ |
6 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
7 | She had seen them through a strange fuzzy blankness , as if they were constructs of her subconscious which were being projected against her closed eyelids . |
8 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
9 | He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest . |
10 | We live in a technological age , and there are going to be major changes without a doubt , we 've all seen them over the past few decades , and into the future there are going to be many major changes . |
11 | Some have seen them as a fine declaration of faith , but they are not . |
12 | Have n't seen them for a long time . |
13 | ‘ You do n't get over disliking someone simply because you have n't seen them for a long time . ’ |
14 | Well say hello to them for us cos we have n't seen them for a long time . |
15 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
16 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
17 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
18 | For Liverpool , this season 's troubles have seen them in an unfamiliar battle to avoid being sucked into the relegation fight but Souness admitted : ‘ It was a good game for us to win . |
19 | So far she had seen nothing but a normal barn — bales of hay , racks of apples , a few garden tools — but now she found herself forced into the other side of the top floor and it was certainly different , so different in fact that as Alain released her she walked forward of her own volition . |
20 | I had heard nothing but the wind , seen nothing but the moving trees but , I thought incredulously , someone had shot me . |
21 | Since she 'd started work she had seen nothing of the surrounding area , except that covered by the bus route which took her to work and back each day . |
22 | — I believe I am anything but candid : in fact — I am naturally suspicious — & exceedingly reserved , the first good quality arises from my having seen plenty of the evil part of the world from my youth up — the second from being but very little used to company or society — for — excepting Mr. Yarrell — ( whom Mrs. Hewitson & Atkinson know , ) — to whom I go to study bones & muscles — I do n't know a single person in all London to visit intimately . ’ |
23 | ‘ I 've seen plenty in the last few months . ’ |
24 | Finally , the Polish General Staff has not only seen itself as an avid ‘ consumer ’ of Soviet military doctrine , but a contributor as well , which has authored its own innovations with Soviet endorsement . |
25 | ‘ Have you seen owt of a black dog ? ’ said Jack to Philip . |
26 | Drouot salerooms may have seen none of the spectacular sales which are so good for promotion . |
27 | Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’ |
28 | Have n't seen you for a long time have you ? |
29 | Oh here 's another dog I think oh it 's Judy 's , not it 's not hello , have n't seen you for a long time , hello , have n't seen her for a long time , morning , good morning oh she 's a sweetie is n't she ? forgotten her name come and say hello , I have n't seen you for ages , so him once on the , good morning . |
30 | ‘ I have n't seen you in a long time . ’ |