Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] seen [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 2 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 3 | I told him that I 'd seen her in the company of a minder I did n't like the look of and that I 'd followed them to Woolwich . |
| 4 | He 's got a week 's growth of beard which seems to be permanent , judging from the times I 've seen him in the past . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've seen them in the fashion magazines and I must say , they sure are special . |
| 6 | That shop , I do n't know what the name of that shop is , but I 've seen them in the window lately |
| 7 | I du n no , I du n no who she 's going out with , but I 've seen her , I 've seen her in the car in the morning when I , like this morning I was walking in , she was in the car just getting the old , but I do n't know if he works here or not , she 's got to be going out with somebody . |
| 8 | During all our alterations I 've seen it in the old garage away up in a loft and I 've seen it put out in the back yard in the rain , and I 've always saved it and it 's there today . |
| 9 | yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two |
| 10 | I have seen you in the House , and though we have n't met , I have taken rather a fancy to you , and would like if I can to help your career . |
| 11 | Lucy reckoned that , for the man in charge , he had some staggeringly dull tasks to handle ; she 'd seen him in the stockroom once , counting every bottle in every crate of tonic water . |
| 12 | It was a look she recognised instantly , although it was the first time she 'd seen it in the flesh . |
| 13 | But we 've also had an artist from the Art Week event , which the Rainforest Festival overlaps with going into a chosen school , with a member of Friends of the Earth , we give them a talk about rainforest , and they do the , I do n't know if you 've seen them in the buses , the sort of advertising slots , we 've got 80 of those slots on the buses throughout the rainforest festival , and the children are actually drawing pictures for them . |
| 14 | You 've seen it in the corner of the office . |
| 15 | Rachaela thought of the day she had seen her in the snow , the day Emma had bowed out from their lives with urgent smiles . |
| 16 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 17 | Four weeks later she had seen him in the cinema queue with another girl , and had perceived that her day was over ; in between , she had known disorientation and obsession , diagnosed her trouble , and felt exhilarated . |
| 18 | She had recognised him instantly , though she had seen him in the flesh only once before and that had been across a crowded ballroom . |
| 19 | Because he had faith in her — she had seen it in the colours he painted her . |
| 20 | But I like to think the neighbours , the ten just persons , men and women both , who have seen you in the shops , who have watched you cross a road , who understand your body language , will make the right decision . |
| 21 | You have seen him in the space of one half-hour |
| 22 | Well only because we 'd seen it in the shop |
| 23 | And of course , we 've seen her in the gossip columns , stepping out with the rich , the famous and the suntanned . |
| 24 | We 've seen it in the er erm broadsheet up-market papers . |
| 25 | We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings . |
| 26 | Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm |
| 27 | and erm I went to a youth club and I I was speaking to eight year olds and they 're asking about condoms cos they 've seen them in the street , so it 's obviously they 're wanting to find out about it cos it 's everywhere around them even , does n't matter what age . |
| 28 | on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day . |
| 29 | They have seen her in the shadows outside the windows of country cottages , and drawn the blinds , dropped the latch . |
| 30 | The misspelling may be because the child has not previously seen the word written down , but more likely because he has seen it in the context of his reading , without paying much attention to anything more than its contour — that is , he has recognised the word without having to decode it , and has understood it without giving its spelling structure close attention . |