Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every week , for one reason or another , there was a man about the place , looking for some creature I 'd seen , or thought I 'd seen . |
| 2 | Every week , for one reason or another , there was a man about the place , looking for some creature I 'd seen , or thought I 'd seen . |
| 3 | That was the first time I 'd seen a man 's penis so clearly and my mouth and throat went dry . |
| 4 | When Moby and I met , he was the biggest Great Dane I 'd seen and full of confidence ! |
| 5 | I 'd seen the Himalayas in the autumn , so I was able to imagine them . |
| 6 | ‘ The last time I 'd seen Nelson was in the courtroom in 1964 , ’ Mrs Sisulu said . |
| 7 | I was nine years old and this was the first foreign film I 'd seen ( probably the first most people had seen in East London ) . |
| 8 | Maybe it was because I 'd seen Ronnie Lane of The Faces — who was my hero at that age — wearing a pair on TV . |
| 9 | I 'd seen his lorry in the lay-by . |
| 10 | The one thing he never wanted was an acting career — ‘ I 'd seen that … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd seen him like that so many times before , but at least after a couple of days he 'd say , ‘ Vicky , I got to clean up . ’ |
| 12 | I thought I 'd seen him before somewhere . |
| 13 | I was flattered when she first asked me , and curious , but when I 'd seen what it was like , I was n't interested . |
| 14 | I 'd seen the invitation pinned up prominently by Dee-Dee in the office : most of the racing world , it seemed , would be there to applaud . |
| 15 | And I 'd seen every bird in Israel but one , the bar-tailed lark . |
| 16 | Now that I 'd seen them together like that I started to have fantasies of being invited to watch them together , or to take photographs of them . |
| 17 | I 'd had a feeling I 'd seen it before , but I 'd no idea they were that good friends ! |
| 18 | ‘ I told you some time ago I 'd seen wor young 'un with a piece . |
| 19 | That was the only time I 'd seen a stick being used . |
| 20 | Siobhan Redmond I 'd seen once in a revue by Marcella for St Andrews University and I tracked her down in Glasgow and asked her would she like to do a show for buttons for the newly opened Tron Theatre , who were interested . |
| 21 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 22 | A cabin cruiser was chugging down the wide brown river towards that little harbour I 'd seen , and over the other side the bank was so steep that the rows of terraced houses were leaning over each other to get a view . |
| 23 | I 'd seen the play — some touring company did it — they 'd made it into SF , all in space , and Oedipus was a two-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox character trying to kiss his mother with one of his faces and weep sorrowful tears with the other . |
| 24 | But before the gibbon came , I 'd seen Vern 's dad . |
| 25 | No one in the hall except the grandfather clock I 'd seen floating in my dream ; no one came out of the sitting room . |
| 26 | It was the first airedale I 'd seen for years , maybe the first since the two that shadowed my childhood . |
| 27 | I 'd seen this attitude once before in the village when a cow , grazing on the cliffside , fell down into the valley below . |
| 28 | I 'd seen Chola and Mina setting out for the forest in the early morning , and three times during the day I 'd watched them coming back , stooped over and staggering under the weight of the enormous loads that spread across their backs , stretching three times broader than their shoulders and several feet above their heads . |
| 29 | But then all the different images of trees that I 'd seen — textures of bark , shades of green , angles at which the branches protruded — merged in my mind into one . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd seen you ride . |