Example sentences of "[conj] i had [adv] seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 2 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 3 | I felt that I had never seen anyone so old . |
| 4 | The fact that I had never seen my aunt looking so elegant added to my impression that I was imagining this . |
| 5 | He looked as strong as before and his hair was still black , but in his face I saw a bitter , desperate look , that I had never seen there before . |
| 6 | They were a very bright and energetic body of Indians ; indeed the most intelligent that I had ever seen . |
| 7 | It was the first time that I had ever seen the inside of a police cell . |
| 8 | It was the most powerful affirmation of strength and military prowess that I had ever seen , and I found it completely fascinating . |
| 9 | It was an unusually sultry afternoon , and Casualty on my return was emptier than I had yet seen it . |
| 10 | Frankie dressed himself , and he looked smarter than I had ever seen him in his check suit , waistcoat and matching cap . |
| 11 | Across the bridge the track followed the old corpse road back to Muker through meadows fuller with flowers than I had ever seen before . |
| 12 | The air of the moors , the freedom of home , and the beginning of independence made Diana and Mary happier than I had ever seen them . |
| 13 | Heathcliff looked more like a gentleman than I had ever seen him , but his wife had not bothered to brush her hair or change her dress . |
| 14 | I had banged my head badly and it was bleeding but my father was more angry than I had ever seen him . |
| 15 | Now he was starting to cry , and I had never seen him cry before . |
| 16 | The cows I could see grazed on and on , and I was trying to remember if I had ever seen an ox grazing instead of working . |
| 17 | I knew of the Knowlton Circles in Dorset but I had never seen them , although I had seen an air photograph . |
| 18 | To go out at midnight in heavy rain or frost , as I sometimes did , when I would be working next morning and when I had hardly seen my wife all day , almost broke me . |
| 19 | It was a reworking of the same materials apropos Hungary as I had already seen in Prague apropos Czechoslovakia . |
| 20 | If he 'd gone to the crematorium mortuary with Alan , there would have been a blank in my mind , as I had never seen it , and anyway it was thirty miles away . |
| 21 | I was really deeply moved as I had only seen such a thing before in religious pictures . |
| 22 | Unmistakable , even though I had never seen one before ; a big bird , brown and grey with a red throat , low in the water , where the wind-rippled surface managed to camouflage it in the most extraordinary way . |
| 23 | Spellbound , I drove upwards into the bright splendour , staring through the windscreen as though I had never seen it all before ; the bronze of the dead bracken spilling down the grassy Banks of the hills , the dark smudges of trees , the grey farmhouses and the endless pattern of wails creeping to the heather above . |