Example sentences of "we [vb past] seen the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd seen the hare at the 4th and it reappeared again , dashing around right in Lee 's vision as he was putting , which cost him a stroke . |
| 2 | I thought we 'd seen the last of him , after what he did to Jennifer . ’ |
| 3 | When we came out of the Clerecia , after dipping hands in the holy water stoup and placing a drop on each other 's brows , as we had seen the novios and novias do ( the boy on entering a church would dip his hand in the water and transfer a drop to his fiancée 's fingertip so that they could cross themselves in unison ) , we would go into La Casa de las Conchas next to the Clerecia , with elaborate wrought-iron window-grilles and its tranquil courtyard , and sit there quietly for a while , thinking of the next poem , or of the one we were working on . |
| 4 | At the Nanaimo Hotel after the coal-mine show , two of our engineers who shared a room down the hall knocked on our door one evening just before dusk to ask if we had seen the strange behaviour of the sea-gulls flying outside our hotel room windows , which faced the sea . |
| 5 | I have never met anyone who heard that broadcast , but the Indian superintendent and I felt we had seen the job through to the end . |
| 6 | ‘ The week before we had noticed that the shutters were open at the tower ( no more picnics ) and we had seen the car . |
| 7 | we had seen the cordon as a handrail ; |
| 8 | When we saw Low Birk Hatt advertised in the Darlington and Stockton Times , we realized who it belonged to because we had seen the television programmes . |
| 9 | I walked along the road while Frankland was watching me , but as soon as I was round the corner , I went towards the hill where we had seen the boy . |
| 10 | And we had seen the horses er er struggling and kicking Strange horses . |