Example sentences of "i [vb past] see [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the old porter I 'd seen on my first visit shambled across the hallway , teapot with no lid in one hand and a bottle of milk in the other . |
| 2 | The grooms on the train were all younger , thinner and from what I 'd seen of them in their uniform T-shirts less positive . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not Superman , my dear , ’ he made her bruised chin immediately better with that warm-sounding ‘ my dear , ’ ‘ so what else could I do — and I own that I was n't thinking at all too clearly — but appeal to the pride I 'd seen in you ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ So I decided to see for myself , ’ the little man was saying . |
| 5 | I told him that ever since listening to my father 's vivid descriptions of Constantinople I had always wanted to visit the city , but that I had been sadly disillusioned by the Turks I had seen on my way to the Embassy ; they had looked so incongruous in second-hand European clothes . |
| 6 | He disappeared into the ship , and I thought that was the last I had seen of him . |
| 7 | So the flooding had not been from the lake — which hitherto I had assumed to be the case ; maybe it had come from the river whose bed , now dried , I had seen from my eminence on the hillside . |
| 8 | This included one of the most severe letters I had seen from his pen . |
| 9 | It seemed a very personal and special wave — the kind that I had seen in my mind 's eye in a night of tangled dreaming . |
| 10 | She told me there were fish in the lake and I wanted to see for myself . ’ |
| 11 | I wanted to see for myself what Mrs Thatcher has to say . |
| 12 | I underpainted some details in red that I wanted to see through it . |