Example sentences of "i had [adv] seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all the previous months , I had rarely seen land , never wanted to . |
| 2 | A good deal of the historical footage I had already seen over the years and some of it , such as the dreadful footage of the Warsaw Ghetto , was only too familiar . |
| 3 | It was a reworking of the same materials apropos Hungary as I had already seen in Prague apropos Czechoslovakia . |
| 4 | I had already seen a couple of ringed seals , several eider duck , many Arctic terns and kittiwakes and a few scruffy immature glaucous gulls before I crept into my bunk to sleep . |
| 5 | I had already seen pictures by Popova , Klyun , and other artists who were then totally unknown . |
| 6 | It was an unusually sultry afternoon , and Casualty on my return was emptier than I had yet seen it . |
| 7 | He stood up while we watched and I realized he had magnificent horns , far longer than any I had yet seen . |
| 8 | The power station was unlike any I had previously seen . |
| 9 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 10 | The display windows of the shops had also been taken over and in some of them were displayed uniforms such as that of the Russian Legion which I had just seen . |
| 11 | I had just seen Dad and another man carrying a tool box to safety when a loud shout from a policeman sent me scurrying back from my vantage point . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I had never seen water that was that blue . |
| 14 | I had never seen anything like it ; it felt slightly illegal . |
| 15 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 16 | Now he was starting to cry , and I had never seen him cry before . |
| 17 | I had never seen them before ; relatives summoned from the north of the country , perhaps . |
| 18 | He has made me look at the world again , made me see things I had never seen before , and see familiar things in a new light . |
| 19 | Although I was doing Shakespeare for A-level I had never seen any of his plays performed on stage . |
| 20 | I had never seen anything so fearsome and kept well back until he despatched the beast ; which seemed to take hours , and several hours later we were still trying to untangle Ian 's line . |
| 21 | Spray was spuming up wildly from my rails in a way I had never seen before . |
| 22 | In the next block a man I had never seen before rushed up to me with a jug . |
| 23 | I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest . |
| 24 | I knew of the Knowlton Circles in Dorset but I had never seen them , although I had seen an air photograph . |
| 25 | In Jamaica I had never seen a white person ; to us youngsters they were an unknown quantity . |
| 26 | We lined up — I had never seen so many people in a stadium in my life — the gun went and I spent just over twenty embarrassing seconds in Tilli 's slipstream . |
| 27 | All I can say is that at the time everything fitted together perfectly into so glaringly obvious a pattern that I was amazed I had never seen it before . |
| 28 | ‘ I had never seen such a clean town . |
| 29 | I had never seen the church so effortlessly packed . |
| 30 | I felt that I had never seen anyone so old . |