Example sentences of "he [vb past] seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This copper said 'e used ter be on the Tunnel beat an' 'e 'd seen a bloke who looked like me knockin' around wiv 'em . |
| 2 | Cook tells me he 'd seen it somewhere and wanted one for his wife . |
| 3 | ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one . |
| 4 | Because , when he 'd seen Olivier , just after 1945 , had n't he said there was a man after his own heart ? |
| 5 | Eventually he remembered — he 'd seen her hanging out with Jim Hendrix in the sixties . |
| 6 | It was the same dog he 'd seen outside Mrs Wright 's hen-house . |
| 7 | That was the last time he 'd seen them . |
| 8 | He 'd seen Caspar down at Mrs Wright 's , had n't he . |
| 9 | He 'd seen Barry on his BMX . |
| 10 | He 'd seen it quite clearly . |
| 11 | And Philip remembered how he 'd seen her go out two weeks ago with yellow flowers in the back seat of the car . |
| 12 | They 'd most likely be asking him if he 'd seen him . |
| 13 | Philip remembered the room he 'd seen yesterday , empty and dead , shaped like a shoe-box . |
| 14 | He 'd seen a film about it and he could remember it very well . |
| 15 | He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile . |
| 16 | He 'd seen that done in a film and had always wondered how it might feel . |
| 17 | He 'd seen a bit of that kind of thing going on in the last hospital he was in . |
| 18 | You 'd have thought he 'd seen a ghost ! — He hopped it , then . |
| 19 | Perkin knew it was I who had remembered that the floorboards should have floated , and on Monday he 'd seen the plank on the dining-room table and heard Doone and me talking in close private consultation . |
| 20 | Perkin would n't have risked any way to kill me that meant creeping up on me , not after what he 'd seen . |
| 21 | He recognised Kurz and Hinterstoisser , he 'd seen them at the hotel ; strikingly handsome fellows , especially Kurz , an officer of the Wehrmacht , blue-eyed , blond-haired . |
| 22 | He should have made a point of looking at the evening coverage before doing his own piece ; but he 'd seen the people they 'd sent to the press conference at the hospital , dismissed them as unlikely to do a decent job on it , and promptly forgotten them . |
| 23 | She considered taking off all her clothes and diving into the pool , but rejected the option instantly ; he 'd never want to fuck her once he 'd seen her naked in full sunlight . |
| 24 | He 'd seen no reason to reveal to Morgan and Evans that his helper was a woman . |
| 25 | He 'd seen me caddie and recommended me , it was a real break . |
| 26 | At the time , Peter Alliss said it was the longest drive he 'd seen in his life . |
| 27 | He 'd seen a kid walking excitedly away from Coffin Corner with a fragment of the Bradshaw cradled in his arms . |
| 28 | No , not some fanatical carp angler frightened of someone looking in his bait box , but carp that mouthed a bait and spat it out before the angler could strike — if he 'd seen the bite , that is . |
| 29 | The slightly fatherly attendant said he was sure she was safely asleep , as he 'd seen her returning from the washroom at the end of the car and climbing up to her bunk . |
| 30 | Grant , stunned , sat staring at the cell entrance , not sure if he had imagined what he 'd seen , or not . |