Example sentences of "seen [pron] [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Rosario fit and Townsend available , Norwich are well equipped to improve on a home League record which has seen them win one game and draw the rest . |
| 2 | ‘ I seen you dance one time . |
| 3 | I came searching for you at the shop and one of your neighbours told me she 'd seen you come this way . ‘ |
| 4 | If you can manage to get one photo of a gunmen in all that crowd , how many more were there they did n't get a photo of you know , erm , so that 's bull shit for a start the said that they only fired upon identified targets , going on motorbikes , and erm , I mean the thing is , the para 's are a highly disciplined , highly trained apparently at a you were n't even allowed to go out there without at least five years experience yeah , they were soldiers , they need and I ca n't believe that they negligibly you know , cos there was women and children there , and nearly all of them had wives and kids , you know , and there was reports from like the Irish saying oh yeah , they were mixing body er , care and body people and fucking laughing and joking over dead bodies and my old man said yeah if you just , if you just seen something drop most people will laugh and joke about it , you know I do n't know if you 've ever meet this sort of , old man , but the service sort of a , a unique sense of they can laugh at anything , you know they can see somebody with its guts put out in front of them and they 'll fucking crack out about it , its the only way they can stop themselves cracking up , or fucking crying sort of thing . |
| 5 | Uhum , I du n no , I 've , I 've seen something like grey track , like grey . |
| 6 | Zach hesitated at first , but luckily someone who had n't seen him do any tap dancing egged him on . |
| 7 | Karen , very tired and possibly a little drunk , realised slowly that she had seen him deploy this technique before , at an earlier dinner in the house , and that somehow it was probably quite offensive . |
| 8 | The Shah 's own eyes 's were wet , This was not the first time that his officers had seen him show such emotion . |
| 9 | I catch a piercing look I 've seen him give other guys ; Gregory , when he would n't jump a six-foot gap on the fourteenth storey ; Nick , when we learned about his drinking . |
| 10 | Apart from scoring in both legs against Leeds , the striker 's rich vein of form this season has seen him net 32 goals in 26 appearances . |
| 11 | It was the first time I had seen him reveal any emotion in his face , and it had something of the intensity of grief . |
| 12 | It seems that this change is based on advice received from the Royal Society of Chemistry , though it has not been applied in the latest issue of Chemistry in Britain , neither can I recollect having seen it mention any possibility of change . |
| 13 | Dexter had seen it happen many times before : the moment when a human being slips from conversation into confession , the moment when what seemed like a universal desire to atone for wickedness overwhelmed the conflicting wish for self-preservation . |
| 14 | He always did it for a while and then just let it ride to see what happened , but all of a sudden ( it 's amazing — I 've seen it happen several times ) he gets out of bed one morning and says , ‘ Right , I 'm going to do something about it — it 's not moving fast enough for me ’ . |
| 15 | As well as protecting domestic firms ' market share , the obvious motivation for the Polish government legislation would appear to be its desire to induce Western firms to invest in the local high-tech industry , a policy that has also seen it pursue interventionist policies in the fields of telecommunications and electronic components — all areas for which Poland was earmarked as a specialist under mechanisms instigated by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 16 | Libby had never seen anyone eat that way before . |
| 17 | I 've never seen anything like that spell between the 6th and 18th . |
| 18 | I have never seen anything like that hall , with its lovely curving staircase . |