Example sentences of "seen [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pig iron you know er pig iron was what they had I 've seen them pouring furnaces pouring it onto the pig beds , and you know when I was a kid when we lived in Caldmore from about half past nine at night all across West Bromwich , Wednesbury all over that area , you 'd see the sky light up and it was due to the pouring of er pouring the pig iron . |
| 2 | All this I knew before we met one warm summer Sunday , after the brothers had seen my unfinished manuscript . |
| 3 | Have you seen my new arrival ? |
| 4 | Because I had seen my young brother-in-law and I says I 'm gon na be like that then , did n't fe er feel any of this er at that time . |
| 5 | ‘ Maman , have you seen my blue dress ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You have seen my beloved son ? ’ |
| 7 | I have n't seen my darling Maria since Friday . ’ |
| 8 | You 've seen my little Japanese , yeah ? |
| 9 | We had often seen its crumbling ramparts from a distance , and had assumed it was Dutch , but now learnt that it had been built by the islanders , long before the Europeans . |
| 10 | It has been a year of change for the Mechanics Institute which has seen its crumbling headquarters re-vamped into a fashionable pub . |
| 11 | The historical period which has seen its political devaluation is one in which political optimism has become unfashionable , which perhaps is one way of explaining the retrospective or merely historicist character of the Situationist exhibition , and the books I have reviewed . |
| 12 | EP&P has seen its fair share of new product launches and 1988 is unlikely to be an exception with new versions of Aldus PageMaker , Ragtime and Letraset 's Ready , Set , Go ! |
| 13 | The fact that she had n't seen her prospective husband since she was ten was neither here nor there . |
| 14 | We 've seen her golden smile on the cover of Tatler and her figure in dozens of fashion glossies . |
| 15 | ‘ 'T IS not four-footed predators we need worry about , ’ he observed , and Isabel knew he had seen her nervous reaction . |
| 16 | It is more than likely that Cis had never seen her young brother/son act in any formal sense at this time . |
| 17 | And nobody had seen her real face for years , for it was heavily rouged and powdered from the top of her eyebrows to where her wrinkled skin disappeared into the bodice of her bright-red velvet evening gown . |
| 18 | She had seen her general practitioner a week after the separation and he had prescribed a tranquillizer . |
| 19 | Guido was still watching her and he had seen her guilty reaction . |
| 20 | It was the only time she had seen her old friend in tears . |
| 21 | We played dominoes with an old boy and his wife ; she was eighty , and if you 'd seen her puffing cigarettes and drinking strong ale , you 'd have been as dumbfounded as I was . |
| 22 | He had seen her passionate anger and had wanted to kiss her senseless , had heard her lie to him and had wanted to shake the truth out of her , had almost caused her to swoon and had wanted to hold her close and tell her he would n't allow anything to hurt her again — all in the space of about half a minute . |
| 23 | She should have realised the truth when she had met her mother and seen her wretched home . |
| 24 | Reading between the lines he would have seen her secret fear for the future . |
| 25 | I 've seen her ugly face somewhere , I do n't know where . |
| 26 | I have not seen her alone face to face all the time we have been here and when I do see her in company she is wont to turn from me . |
| 27 | THE ENGLISH Schools Cricket Association ( ESCA ) has grown considerably since it was formed in 1948 , and its diligent band of committee members have seen their tireless efforts forge many valuable partnerships to ensure the continued development of cricket in the schools . |
| 28 | Second , the American parties have always seen their primary job as winning elections , and not as governing . |
| 29 | The coal and gas industries , which were significantly more labour-intensive , had seen their current costs escalate more rapidly , and lacked the cushion of historically low capital charges . |
| 30 | Consequently , the enterprises that received the dinar credits have seen their real values fall to about 2 per cent of their original value . |