Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] seen [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | H. P. If your face did n't fit , they could get rid of you within twelve months.There was this bobby , a big chap over six feet , very dour , from the Hebrides — he 'd only seen sheep . |
| 2 | He 'd never seen fruit that shape and colour . |
| 3 | He 'd never seen stars like he 'd seen them around here , cold and diamond-sharp and so many . |
| 4 | He 'd never seen Janet drinking out of a can before , either . |
| 5 | The birds were n't anything he knew and he 'd never seen toadstools like that with spots on . |
| 6 | Yet he had since seen Aycliffe and told him of his unaltered intention to come into possession of them by wedding her . |
| 7 | Not that he had even seen Benin , hidden behind the opaque dark windows in the back of the Mercedes . |
| 8 | He had not seen Alexandra Maitland since the evening she had spent in his flat and , stupidly , he had not asked when she would be back from Milan . |
| 9 | He had not seen Colin or Dickon . |
| 10 | He had not seen Anna since Nahum 's arrival in Swinbrook and he had no plans to visit the Hankses ' cottage in the near future . |
| 11 | But hunt joint master Captain Ian Farquhar told TODAY he had not seen Camilla there . |
| 12 | No , of course he had not seen James Vane 's face at the window . |
| 13 | It occurred to him as he walked that he had not seen Taheb since their visit to the palace compound . |
| 14 | He had not seen Karr in more than three years . |
| 15 | It so happened that on one of these Sundays my CO strolled by at the same time , and the AOC asked him why he had not seen Mahaddie for a pilot 's course . |
| 16 | He saw Anna occasionally but he had not seen Freda for years though he had to admit that he might not have recognised her had he passed her in the street . |
| 17 | He behaved as though he had n't seen Ellie , as though she did n't exist , and she felt a lump come into her throat , felt hurt , and diminished , which was so stupid . |
| 18 | He had n't seen copper trying to get him caught up , I wonder how much he was using mirror when he was overtaking people ? |
| 19 | He had n't seen Karen for years . |
| 20 | I later learned that he had n't seen Mr Rafter at all , but had hot-footed it back to Mullingar . |
| 21 | Well he does n't know where I live at the but it came up in court that he was going to take me to court for access , making it out as though it was my fault that he had n't seen Ricky , I was stopping him from seeing Ricky when it 's his own fault . |
| 22 | Nick stuffed and stuffed as if he had n't seen food for weeks but Carrie could hardly eat anything . |
| 23 | He behaved as if he had n't seen Marie , and the girl went into the house when Jenna stared at her forcefully . |
| 24 | He had n't seen O'Hara all morning because he 'd slept in . |
| 25 | Arthur watched him , pulled in his stomach , listened to the loudspeaker to hear how the performing dog was doing , and thought seriously enough that he had n't seen Fred so exhilarated since last August at Blackpool . |
| 26 | There had even been times when he 'd found himself imagining her with no clothes on at all — the way he had once seen Peggy Podmore — and felt the same keen desire well up in him . |
| 27 | Back in his own home , it seemed incredible to George that he had actually seen Tamar 's attacker at Thorsbury , and yet he was certain that the groom was the same man . |
| 28 | It had been the first time that he had really seen Sara in tears . |
| 29 | He had never seen Nails before as other than a surly , rude boy , but now he was smiling and looked light-headed . |
| 30 | From the day they had all parted , diverging from Ecalpemos out into the world , he had never seen Adam again , but he knew all about him , knew for instance that he had become a partner in a company selling computers that called itself Verne-Smith-Duchini . |