Example sentences of "i [verb] seen [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd seen a 100 franc note on the mantelpiece at old Ma Scamp 's place .
2 In the past I 'd seen a fair bit of Lloyd .
3 ‘ I thought I 'd seen the last of this particular fashion accessory . ’
4 I 'd seen the naked soul of my Mother .
5 During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation .
6 While Stok was talking I had seen a familiar figure enter the door .
7 And they started that and they were sent out to this big villa and er that was the first time I had seen a continental headboard and er we could n't understand what it was you know .
8 It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life .
9 I waded out , concentrating on casting towards the weeds , where I had seen a good fish rise , when a glint of white under the water caught my eye .
10 I told her that once , going into church , I had seen a kind young priest christening a very nice baby .
11 Just in front of me I had seen a large shell-crater , an old one .
12 The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower .
13 I realized I had seen a few of these same processions on my way north through eastern Czechoslovakia , in Ovitkov and in Ostrava .
14 ‘ Although I had seen a few people through Plump Partners — some of whom are still great friends — romance never really blossomed for me .
15 I therefore associated towns with tin roofs and thatched huts ; in Jibuti , Berbera and Aden I had seen no memorable buildings .
16 I went on my way happy after that — indeed , happier than I had been before I had seen the strange apparitions-and it occurred to me that somebody both less logical and less imaginative would have jumped to the conclusion that what they had seen were UFOs .
17 There is no space to go into detail about the ding-dong and the relevance of that remark , but it is gentlemanly mayhem at its best and I wish I had seen the first encounters between the CSIRO and its critic , who , I infer , also had a go at the research on skeleton weed .
18 Falconry is not a sport confined to women , but on this occasion I felt I had seen the perfect emblem for the ‘ Mistress of the Beasts ’ .
19 The day I had seen the large round blob in my lung .
20 Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year .
21 When I arrived in the airport I had seen the local paper which reported the sighting of one near Isafjördur .
22 I headed out of town and found the path through the woods where earlier I had seen the white hound running .
23 And Ipswich team manager Mick McGiven , Monkou 's former coach at Stamford Bridge , said : ‘ I do n't think I 've seen a better marking job on Chris . ’
24 Since the word got out on Prehistoric I 've seen a whole bunch of scripts .
25 I 've seen a dead man , a man who killed himself , and he looked terrible .
26 I 've seen a few already ’
27 But I 've seen a few of them on the slippery slope — the Shiny Set , the stars , the Washington
28 After Tomkins had served the second glass , Robins looked at me almost quizzically , and said , ‘ I 've seen a few doctors come and go in the islands , but you do n't seem to fit into the usual pattern . ’
29 I 'm sure it 's in Pauline 's garden because I 've seen a few times .
30 Now the next word is health , because I 've seen no strong reasoning , no strong convictions , that there 's gon na be any advantages in health terms in ter er as opposed to directly managed units .
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