Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [num ord] see [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She laughed the same way as when I 'd first seen her . |
| 2 | I had first seen her in the desert when I went for my first ‘ bedu ’ breakfast and the prospective bridegroom 's brother had played fox in the hen coop . |
| 3 | I though of Poppy and was surprised to find that the fever that had raged in my blood since I had first seen her was n't there any more . |
| 4 | By a remarkable coincidence this book arrived on my desk for review a matter of weeks after I had first seen it and browsed through it in a bookshop in Kathmandu . |
| 5 | I had first seen it on out Skerries during spring migration . |
| 6 | I was n't prepared for what had happened to her in the year since I had last seen her . |
| 7 | The deterioration in my companion 's movements in the few weeks since I had last seen him was distressing to observe . |
| 8 | During the six months since I had last seen him , Mr Broadhurst had undergone a further metamorphosis and this time the change was more radical , more entire , than ever before . |
| 9 | The gallery was full and the gallery owner looked happier than when I had last seen him . |
| 10 | Victor Frankenstein was still in the clearing where I had last seen him . |
| 11 | Something perhaps since I have last seen you . |
| 12 | Tolonen looked across at the boy , trying to see him as Spatz saw him ; as he himself had first seen him , before he had seen the films that demonstrated the boy 's abilities . |
| 13 | But oh , he had set her heart to racing the instant she 'd first seen him . |
| 14 | Even Benny had looked green when she 'd first seen it , and Benny had had time to get used to the idea . |
| 15 | She made a mild attempt to evade him but he cut across and landed in front of her , sitting , as she had first seen him , with the sheep and goats dithering and teetering before and around him . |
| 16 | Who would have thought when she had first seen him in England that he would drag her into his life , order her about , kiss her ? |
| 17 | She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance . |
| 18 | It was still as gloomy as the day on which she had first seen it and she longed to transform it into a place of splendid elegance . |
| 19 | She had first seen it on one of the standards fluttering in the throne room . |
| 20 | Alison , thinner than when she had last seen her , seemed also uncharacteristically nervous . |
| 21 | ‘ And stay in England ? ’ asked her mama , not wishing to lose a Sally-Anne who , for whatever reason , seemed to have changed so greatly since she had last seen her , as a spoiled , petulant and wilful child , thinking only of herself . |
| 22 | One last lingering look at the place where she had last seen him , but he was gone from sight , gone from her now . |
| 23 | The young prince had showered and changed since she had last seen him . |
| 24 | Belinda 's heart thudded at the sound of his name , and it seemed like much longer than a day since she had last seen him . |
| 25 | They were replaced by a chilling mental picture of Edmund as she had last seen him . |
| 26 | He was taller by a good inch than when she had last seen him , or he looked so for being noticeably thinner . |
| 27 | Behind them , she envisaged the faces of the Committee for the Preservation of Morals , as she had last seen them , glistening with almost sadistic anticipation of the crushing of the young author and of giving Mr Pascall and the cigar-store merchants their proper comeuppances . |
| 28 | It was always beautiful from here , but since she had last seen it , her view of life had changed . |
| 29 | Leslie had an aunt in Durban , but by great misfortune disembarkation was on this occasion not allowed , and he did not meet the relative who had last seen him as a little boy in Scotland . |
| 30 | His previous incarnations seemed well known to Primaflora who had last seen him , presumably , crossing from the service of the Grand Commander Louis de Magnac to that of Nicholas with total aplomb . |