Example sentences of "he [verb] seen [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jip tells of something he has seen written on a wall : ‘ If the human brain was simple enough for us to understand we 'd be so simple we could n't ’ ( 88 ) . |
| 2 | SIR — Just what thought-processes are assumed to make the floating voter more inclined to support party leaders whom he has seen flanked by what the newspapers call ‘ glitterati ’ — celebrities , that is , of stage , screen , pop concerts , running , jumping and playing ball games ? |
| 3 | Wilko said he s the best athlete he has seen playing football . |
| 4 | The animals he 'd seen had always been well looked after . |
| 5 | He 'd seen Caspar down at Mrs Wright 's , had n't he . |
| 6 | What he 'd seen done to Grant made Forster realise that whatever it was struck with demonic speed and savagery . |
| 7 | It was in fact the back axle of a lady 's tricycle which he had seen laying discarded on the top of someone 's dustbin . |
| 8 | There was a field of poppies and corn which reminded him only of small and large , faded and ghostly versions of Van Gogh 's " Harvest " which he had seen repeated in endless hospital corridors , waiting rooms , school offices . |
| 9 | But as he passed the crossroads and came to that part of the road that wound down into Chesney he could n't help recalling the man he had seen skipping among the trees . |
| 10 | Sharpe felt a sudden fear that he had raised a false alarm and the force he had seen had been nothing but a feint . |
| 11 | The surgeon also described how two young women were brought in with soft tissue injuries to their lower limbs , and a little girl he had seen had sustained injuries to her abdomen . |
| 12 | Coffin was still pondering on the significance of what he had seen written on the piece of paper from Place 's jacket . |
| 13 | Cranston stopped and , half crouching , retched violently as the true horror of what he had seen seized his mind and wrung his stomach as if it was a wet rag . |
| 14 | As he reflected on the brutality of what he had seen done in the name of religion in the Civil War , Taylor asked himself , ‘ If persons be Christians in their lives and Christians in their profession , … why should I hate such persons whom God loves and who love God , because … they have not the same opinion as I have ? ’ |
| 15 | Tony also mentioned how he had visited a local centre for the young unemployed which he had seen advertised in the local newspaper . |
| 16 | Slater said , and Graham felt his eyes widening , that pulling back of the skin towards the ears he thought he had seen frozen on her face , Left ? |
| 17 | He had access to scores and opportunities of hearing orchestral excerpts in concert , but at the time of the publication of BT the only Wagnerian work he had seen performed remained Meistersinger . |
| 18 | Burun went round to the side of the yurt and called the female slave he had seen working there . |
| 19 | As he was relating his story , he suddenly realised that sitting before him among the directors was the sandy-haired man he had seen talking to Mr Dwerringhouse . |
| 20 | He spun on his heel and surveyed the forecourt in the area of the pumps , searching for something he thought he had seen lying there . |
| 21 | But whereas before he had seen Scouting as a gateway of opportunity to the big time , 20 years on , the movement seemed narrow and provincial somehow , more concerned with preserving an America that was fast slipping away , if it had ever truly existed , than with helping to shape the country 's youth to face an uncertain future . |
| 22 | The few living ones he had seen held only despair . |