Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd rarely seen the place as packed as it was when I got there . |
| 2 | H. P. If your face did n't fit , they could get rid of you within twelve months.There was this bobby , a big chap over six feet , very dour , from the Hebrides — he 'd only seen sheep . |
| 3 | We 'd only seen these in tanks before , and the initial reaction was that they were OK , but … |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Since the war had begun , she 'd only seen the enemy on newsreels . |
| 6 | Hitherto we 'd only seen their faces and spoken with our hands . |
| 7 | It 's as if I 'd only seen him at twilight ; and now suddenly I see him at dawn . |
| 8 | You 'd only seen me a couple of times , and then you were n't exactly falling over yourself to speak to me ! ’ she spat back . |
| 9 | They 'd all seen the armada crossing the water . |
| 10 | Our ideas coalesced with those of Ray Cusick in the production of the Dalek itself once we 'd all seen the scripts . |
| 11 | Some days he would follow a man , a man he 'd just seen in the street , for minutes or for hours , thinking he would go up to him and ask him if he knew the way . |
| 12 | The shock of what he 'd just seen must have still been on his face because he just shrugged and ran . |
| 13 | And I 'd just seen a colleague come and go in less than three months … |
| 14 | ‘ But I 'd just seen you talking to Phena , who told you I was n't in the study , ’ he said softly . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , that answers quite a lot , ’ Lucy said , drawing a deep breath to indicate she 'd just seen the light . |
| 16 | She 'd already seen Il-Maltija , a country dance which Roman had told her began in the royal courts of the eighteenth century . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't I know that fella ? ’ said Dad , who because of his memory loss thought he 'd already seen every film or play he watched , had read every book he attempted , and knew every story he heard . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was because she 'd already seen countless admiring female eyes slide in his direction ; even though they apparently had n't recognised him in his goggles and ski-hat , still they were drawn by the sheer animal magnetism of the man . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , yes , a nurse came across ; she 'd remembered I 'd already seen the doctor . |
| 20 | ‘ And I 'd always seen myself as leaving my body to medical science . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd always seen what it was like — going on location with my dad , having money and not having money , seeing when Dad was a hit and when he was n't a hit . |
| 22 | I 'd always seen it as in some other dimension . |
| 23 | He said I was the healthiest ghost he 'd ever seen ! |
| 24 | Nobody had told me what a cinema or a film was , and certainly nothing about the concept of an animated cartoon ; and I was taken into the largest enclosed space I 'd ever seen , into a crowd of strangers , put on a seat , and the lights went out . |
| 25 | ‘ Although , when I was going he did give me a sort of squeeze and said I 'd got the loveliest mouth he 'd ever seen . ’ |
| 26 | Sergeant Newton Barrios had investigated more than seven hundred traffic fatalities in the city of New Orleans , but this was the worst he 'd ever seen on the St Claude Avenue Bridge . |
| 27 | First to New York , which she thought was the ugliest , filthiest town she 'd ever seen , typified by their slouching , smoking mounted police . |
| 28 | Jane was squeezed beside the fattest black woman she 'd ever seen , shaking like a jelly with continual mirth . |
| 29 | Dot thought it was the loveliest book she 'd ever seen . |
| 30 | ‘ She was the most beautiful thing I 'd ever seen , ’ says Elliott reverently . |