Example sentences of "i had [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all the previous months , I had rarely seen land , never wanted to . |
| 2 | Although I had n't seen her in over thirty years , there was one person in the world who might help me : my sister . |
| 3 | I had n't seen her sitting on a bench not far from the spot . |
| 4 | I had n't seen him smiling before . |
| 5 | We were going to see a film and I had n't seen a film before . |
| 6 | One friend of mine — I had n't seen him in a while , then one day I met him in school with my head covered , and he said : ‘ Yasmin , have you gone religious ? ’ |
| 7 | I had n't seen him since that early morning encounter several weeks before . |
| 8 | All she could mutter was , ‘ Bruce , if I had n't seen it with my own eyes , I would never have believed it . ’ |
| 9 | I had n't seen it , but I recalled the lines in the title-song which went : |
| 10 | ‘ I wish I had n't seen the bloody flash , ’ he muttered under his breath . |
| 11 | I thought for a moment that I had come second ; I had n't seen Ben at all . |
| 12 | I had told Ron , who was with me in Rome , that I had n't seen the point in attending the practice , but he had persuaded me that I ought to attend . |
| 13 | This was a Karen I had n't seen before , and one I did n't have much time for , to be frank . |
| 14 | I did n't notice at first ; I saw her walking down the street in front of me , and without any hesitation I knew who it was — I had n't seen her for over a year , she had cut her hair off short and was wearing a dress , but I knew . |
| 15 | I had n't seen Nell at all either . |
| 16 | And I wanted to pretend I had n't seen it . |
| 17 | I rang her every day , but I had n't seen her during the time I 'd been living at Eva 's ; I could n't face any of them in that house . |
| 18 | Except that I had n't seen him since he lay on his camp-bed and watched me sleeping naked with his beloved wife , the woman I 'd always characterized to him as ‘ sister ’ . |
| 19 | It was great because Steve Marriott was on it as well and I had n't seen him for a couple of years . |
| 20 | Despite Schlesinger 's claims that ‘ there was n't anything in the movie that I had n't seen in some way somewhere ’ and ‘ one was always confronted by something worse on the streets than one was putting into the film ’ , they were attention-getting elements , unabsorbed into the texture of the film . |
| 21 | I had n't seen her since my wedding day , but had heard she was ‘ housekeeping ’ for some Pakistani gentlemen in Rotherham . |
| 22 | I had n't seen Malc for some months . |
| 23 | I replied cautiously , acutely aware that I had n't seen Spock and Kirk do their thing for years and that I 'd only seen one episode of the new series . |
| 24 | ( Having had to admit that , despite living near the epicentre of circle activity , I had n't seen one of them , I was keeping quiet . ) |
| 25 | The visitors ’ section there was almost full — I had n't seen that since we clinched the championship five years ago . ’ |
| 26 | I HAD N'T seen Nirvana since December '91 , when they 'd played the Transmusicales Festival in Rennes , France . |
| 27 | ‘ I would n't have believed it , ’ he murmured , ‘ if I had n't seen it . |
| 28 | I had n't seen him for seven years , though I 'd heard about him now and then — he had graduated through minor journalism to publishing , and was now ( I learned by well-placed casual questions ) a leading light in a go-ahead new publishing house specializing in novels by Angry Young Men . |
| 29 | At the time I told myself that I would take a train to Perpignan and from there explore the more accessible small seaside places just because they sounded nice and quiet and I had n't seen them before . |
| 30 | I had n't seen John at all since before going to hospital . |