Example sentences of "seen [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though Old Red had looked at me so keenly , I would be prepared to swear on oath that he had not seen me at all . |
| 2 | Hast Thou ever seen me for that reason at all dejected ? |
| 3 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 4 | By the time the aged parents had arrived , Lisabeth was ensconced in my bedroom , the sleeping-bag ( which has seen me through three continents , two sit-ins , an eviction and a New Year 's Eve in Trafalgar Square , and which I called Hemingway ) in place on the sofa . |
| 5 | I met some now very loyal friends who have seen me through these last three and a half years . |
| 6 | ‘ Seen me through some things . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Since then , he 's seen me through some incredible times . |
| 8 | I 'm very sorry , ’ said Breeze sedately , ‘ that you should have seen me in that cowardly moment . ’ |
| 9 | Sitting in the train , with a Sunday paper which I 'd automatically bought lying unopened on my knee , I felt a sense of relief at being away from him , at being surrounded by a lot of impersonal uncaring strangers who could see nothing different about me because they 'd never seen me before last night . |
| 10 | In the past , as we have seen in earlier chapters , teachers have either confined themselves almost entirely to one or the other of the modes ( using terms like ‘ creative drama ’ in opposition to ‘ theatre ’ ) or they have seen them as separate stages in the child 's education . |
| 11 | Not that acers insist on an acid woodland soil , not even for the most exotic species with unpronounceable Japanese names ; I have even seen them as cut plants on patios . |
| 12 | It was a full week before they reappeared in The Bar ; we had n't seen them for six nights and there had been much discussion . |
| 13 | I had not seen them for some time . |
| 14 | A couple of Russian exiles ; I have n't seen them for ten years . |
| 15 | Bernice had n't seen them at first : their black silk cloaks merged into the darkness beyond the doorway , and only the jerky movements of the red-painted muzzles of their stubby blasters revealed their location . |
| 16 | But , we 've seen them on this side as well ! |
| 17 | I 've seen them after all ( she 's talking still faster ) … for Harriet they 're just future factory fodder . |
| 18 | Oh that 's erm your objection er was nobody had seen me and you did n't really answer the question clients by coming in to their homes you know , Martin made the comment er that in actual fact nobody had seen them seen them in six or seven years so I thought that was a possibility for a just er oh n maybe not as deep a but nevertheless erm there was a good , good pause er er how did you er come to be with Friends Provident er you , it was good that you asked er er if the wife would be attending the second meeting , that was an important thing . |
| 19 | I 've not seen them in local garden centres , where can I obtain some ? |
| 20 | Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them . |
| 21 | Yet Siward , too , must have looked at his son Osbern sometimes and seen nothing but another man to sit in his chair . ’ |
| 22 | The Gulf has seen nothing on this scale before . ’ |
| 23 | Noel Cooper was lifted aboard : he had seen nothing of Norman Teacher since the Lt-Cmdr swam off towards the shore . |
| 24 | Or possibly she had seen nothing at all , and it was pure fantasy . |
| 25 | And as Rex and Khai Eng , still thriving in an area which has seen plenty of other vegetarian establishments come and go , get ready to enter their second decade , perhaps we 'll leave the last word to Rex : |
| 26 | She had seen none of this glamorous life ; she had seldom even been to smart restaurants , let alone banquets and star-studded receptions . |
| 27 | I 've seen you on that same stage hesitant , unsure of yourself , struggling to get by . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 've never seen you without those glasses on . ’ |
| 29 | I 've seen you with that one have n't I ? |
| 30 | hardly seen you at all . |