Example sentences of "what [pers pn] have seen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grooms on the train were all younger , thinner and from what I 'd seen of them in their uniform T-shirts less positive . |
| 2 | All I know is what I 've seen on the news . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I like the countryside around here — what I 've seen of it . |
| 4 | ‘ She 's a nice girl , what I 've seen of her , the best of the bunch , I should say , next to Mick and , of course , Dick . |
| 5 | " From what I 've seen of her , she 's a strong-willed independent young woman , who knows what she wants , and is not afraid to say so . |
| 6 | ‘ From what I 've seen of him , I 'd say he 's got rather a perverse sense of humour and enjoys winding people up , ’ said Melissa , remembering in particular his brush with Alain Gebrec the previous afternoon over the controversial book . |
| 7 | ‘ From what I 've seen of Officer Hassan , it would take more than a missing golf-club to prise him away from his suicide theory . ’ |
| 8 | And people do live in other parts of the area , and they need telephones — from what I 've seen of the place they 'll be about the main link with the outside world . |
| 9 | Elwood looked very good indeed and possesses a lot of talent , and from what I 've seen of him , he would have done well in New Zealand . |
| 10 | From what I 've seen of it , this is a perfectly normal thing , the pilot probably got lost . ’ |
| 11 | From what I 've seen of Bardsley , he reminds me a bit of Sterland — he looks very good going forward but he seemed to leave gaping holes at the back when he played for England ( ca n't remember who it was against ) . |
| 12 | She probably had a real great impression of herself right she did and then when she turns round and we said well I 'm sorry and said well sorry no got a bloody big shock , gave her a shock to the system and to be quite honest what I 've seen of her since then has been a darn sight more er spruced up and a bit more on the bloody ball than she was before |
| 13 | ‘ On the contrary , what I 've seen of your country I rather like . ’ |
| 14 | But Davies insists : ‘ I 'm very encouraged by what I 've seen in Welsh club rugby this season . |
| 15 | er right erm tt yep that seems to be okay I did n't erm no I was reading this on , this morning just after the clinical lecture and I did n't see anything that , that I thought would be problematic erm you know given , you know , sort of what I 've seen in your coursework so far you seem to have got a fairly good idea of what you can ask and what you can get away with and what sorts of things you think are useful and , and , and stuff like that so erm you know I 'm entirely happy with your judgment as to the content erm you know because it 's part of an ongoing pr project and it 's not just something that you 've , you 've knocked off in half an hour or anything so erm |
| 16 | what I 've seen in the paper today , we 're both gon na join today , er this week , er Council erm , er are looking forward to it , they approve of it bet you bloody County Council will |
| 17 | Do you remember that Saturday I remember sitting on the stairs , Mark , look what I 've seen in your paper ! |
| 18 | Look what I 've seen in the paper Mark ! , ca can we go and have a look ? |
| 19 | What I had seen of Czechoslovakia was a society which encouraged a miserable waste of human resources . |
| 20 | I understood what I had seen in the dream when I learned the words " gaberdine " and " mahogany " ; and I was born in the year of the New Look , understood by 1951 and the birth of my sister , that dresses needing twenty yards for a skirt were items as expensive as children — more expensive really , because after 1948 babies came relatively cheap , on tides of free milk and orange juice , but good cloth in any quantity was hard to find for a very long time . |
| 21 | From what I have seen of it so far , it has very little to recommend it . |
| 22 | ‘ From what I have seen of her , she never will be trained , ’ snapped Teresa Darrell . |
| 23 | From what I have seen of Kelly , he has promise , but only 20% of his passes , clearances , crosses go to a Leeds player . |
| 24 | As one young manager put it : ‘ The only things I know about the army are what I have seen on television ! ’ |
| 25 | Iii case this book should be read by some fundamentalist searching for straws to prop up his prejudices , let me state categorically that all my experience ( such as it is ) has led me to an unqualified acceptance of evolution by natural selection as a sufficient explanation for what I have seen in the fossil record . |
| 26 | The older woman had n't bothered to hide her dismay at what she had seen as the loss of her precious older son . |
| 27 | Being cradled against her mother 's soft warm body , Dot tried to feel like a baby , to remember what she had seen through the crack in the double doors as Gloria had cradled Baby against her while the nurses gathered round with protective outstretched arms . |
| 28 | She had , and she felt slightly uneasy about admitting it , she had sought the smartly intense , at the expense of the more solid and dowdy virtues ; she had been attracted by surfaces , by clothes and manners and voices and trivial strange graces , and she had imitated what she had seen of these things in others . |
| 29 | From what she had seen of maid 's work it was not very difficult . |
| 30 | From what she had seen of Araminta , Theda was ready to believe it . |