Example sentences of "time i [vb past] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the first time I had seen him since the landings . |
| 2 | I remembered the last time I had seen him , on the half-landing on the stairs , and how we looked at one another — as if he had sensed it would be our last encounter — and had shaken hands and said goodbye . |
| 3 | The last time I had seen Peter , in Biarritz , he had been accompanied by a tall , fair-haired girl whom he had introduced as his fiancée . |
| 4 | This was the first time I had seen him surf in the flesh , but for an entire month I had contemplated him pulling fearlessly into a vicious Pipeline tube when I should have been writing lectures . |
| 5 | The last time I had seen ‘ Reading ’ in Cammell Laird 's yard , on a fleeting autumn visit , she had resembled nothing so much as a squashed Nestle 's milk tin . |
| 6 | It was the first time I had seen her in a pale colour — a light grey dress which made her seem shadowy . |
| 7 | It was the first time I had seen him reveal any emotion in his face , and it had something of the intensity of grief . |
| 8 | Magwitch seemed quieter and more likeable than the last time I had seen him . |
| 9 | The last time I had seen him , on the night of the fire , he had held my hands , told me I had saved his life , and looked at me as if he loved me . |
| 10 | This was the first time I had seen her exercise her charm . |
| 11 | He looked even paler and weaker than the last time I had seen him . |
| 12 | It was the first time I had seen a ship built from scratch and it was quite an experience to watch the steel plates being cut by their ingenious machine which controlled a cutter as it drew our the required shapes direct from the blueprint , converting everything to full scale as it cut . |
| 13 | The last time I had seen a white rose had been in that filthy room in the Tower . |
| 14 | It was not the first time I had seen " my " insects . |
| 15 | And they started that and they were sent out to this big villa and er that was the first time I had seen a continental headboard and er we could n't understand what it was you know . |
| 16 | I remember him relating it again the first time I returned to see him after gaining my first post as butler — to a Mr and Mrs Muggeridge in their relatively modest house in Allshot , Oxfordshire . |
| 17 | So it was that every time I went to see her , she would run forward and stand , head on one side , looking like a little robin , waiting for her kiss . |
| 18 | The next time I went to see Dorothy I was not allowed to stay for long . |
| 19 | ‘ The last time I went to see a specialist about my knee , I was ready to pack it in if he 'd told me I was facing another year out . |
| 20 | The next time I went to see her she offered me another two Chagalls one was the goat and bride from his Parisian period , and the other I can no longer recall , but it was another gouache . |
| 21 | Around this time I went to see my sister . |
| 22 | The trouble is , I ca n't for the life of me remember what I was wearing the last time I went to see Angy , or on the day she died . |
| 23 | I had n't been to the dump for a while , and it was about time I went to see what the good folk of Porteneil had thrown out . |
| 24 | That was the first time I 'd seen a man 's penis so clearly and my mouth and throat went dry . |
| 25 | ‘ The last time I 'd seen Nelson was in the courtroom in 1964 , ’ Mrs Sisulu said . |
| 26 | That was the only time I 'd seen a stick being used . |
| 27 | It was the first time I 'd seen anyone in labour and I made a silent vow that when I was married I was n't going to have any babies if this was how you had to suffer . |
| 28 | She was immediately recognisable , though she 'd had the scarf on as she sped past me the only other time I 'd seen her . |
| 29 | I knew what I 'd witnessed last time I 'd seen one of those in the possession of a malai officer . |
| 30 | It was the first time I 'd seen an SS uniform , you know . |