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 . ’
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