Example sentences of "[conj] i had seen [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I had seen you , Frankenstein , for only a few moments , I knew that I belonged to you . |
| 2 | She did n't realise , you see , that I had followed them , that I had seen them here together — and knew what they were planning . |
| 3 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 4 | " Some dogs do get over it , Wes. i did n't tell him that I had seen it happen only once . |
| 5 | In paying my respects and tribute to the bereaved of the two soldiers and the young man killed , I am tempted to say that I thought that I had seen it all . |
| 6 | No , I knew that I had seen someone , or something . |
| 7 | ‘ Nicola was happier than I had seen her for months , ’ he said . |
| 8 | He looked happier than I had seen him for weeks and there was colour in his cheeks . |
| 9 | It looked a scrappy goal , but slightly better once I had seen what really happened on the telly . |
| 10 | ‘ I felt as if I had seen something unclean , ’ Cecil concluded , ‘ so fearful in its cold frenzy that one blanched , asphyxiated in so nauseous an atmosphere . ’ |
| 11 | Believe me , if I had seen her in any other place , I would have dismissed her as a witch from a mummer 's play . |
| 12 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
| 13 | The Hurricanes were to land at Hal Far aerodrome and I circled that aerodrome until I had seen them all land safely . |
| 14 | Of course , it was a very nice idea , but I had seen what the Germans were doing with colour television . |
| 15 | I did n't recommend it because I had seen what it had done to sensitive artists like Scott Walker . |
| 16 | because I had seen it painted twice |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It was two and a half years since I had seen them and it gave me a lot of hope just to know that they were still in good shape , although they both looked much older . |
| 19 | It was some years since I had seen his signature . |
| 20 | After I had seen her , I visited the church and found on the altar a candle bearing the arms of the Cathedral on its base . |
| 21 | One Sunday morning , about a week after I had seen my dad for the second time , I was lying in bed when I heard voices in the street below . |
| 22 | I had n't noticed this picture much while she was alive , but now she was dead it seemed as if her eyes sparkled with the same vitality that they had appeared to possess when I had seen her lying cold on her straw mattress a few days earlier . |
| 23 | This animal had begun to grunt and go off her milk two days ago and when I had seen her yesterday I had flirted from one possibility to the other . |
| 24 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 25 | One was my convict , and the other was the man who had run away when I had seen him near the shelter . |
| 26 | ( Looking at her , I was often reminded of the famous Lina Cavalieri as I had seen her in photographs . |
| 27 | There was Barrymore , with the light in his hand , looking out across the moor , exactly as I had seen him on the night before . |
| 28 | I thought of Aunt Louise as I had seen her last , sitting upright in her plastic-covered armchair . |
| 29 | The gilded chair by the dressing-table was strewn with clothing , just as I had seen it when I had sometimes taken in her morning tisane . |
| 30 | I had never met the head of governors , Dr Arnold Barton , though I had seen him at several functions , a thin , tall , stern-faced , lantern-jawed streak of a man who rarely seemed to smile . |