Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] have [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of three comes as an abstraction from many sets of three objects : although no-one has ever seen three , children can see three cars , three people , three umbrellas , three miscellaneous objects , and so on , and eventually they will understand the ‘ threeness of three ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I like Dickon , although I 've never seen him . ’ |
| 3 | Indeed the magazine tables proffer The Economist , the Spectator and a clutch of literary magazines , although I 've never seen any of them being read . |
| 4 | They 've got the spare uniform somewhere , although I 've never seen it . |
| 5 | ‘ Although I 've certainly seen you , ’ said Zeinab . |
| 6 | What was encouraging was the way we played — the best I 've seen them this term ( although I 've only seen 4 matches ) . |
| 7 | I 'd told her not to worry and that he was one of the lads , although I 'd never seen him before , and we were just waiting for her to go before we started the party . |
| 8 | She had more Christmas cards than I 'd ever seen for one person ; every surface was a forest of them . |
| 9 | It was an unusually sultry afternoon , and Casualty on my return was emptier than I had yet seen it . |
| 10 | Frankie dressed himself , and he looked smarter than I had ever seen him in his check suit , waistcoat and matching cap . |
| 11 | Across the bridge the track followed the old corpse road back to Muker through meadows fuller with flowers than I had ever seen before . |
| 12 | The air of the moors , the freedom of home , and the beginning of independence made Diana and Mary happier than I had ever seen them . |
| 13 | Heathcliff looked more like a gentleman than I had ever seen him , but his wife had not bothered to brush her hair or change her dress . |
| 14 | I had banged my head badly and it was bleeding but my father was more angry than I had ever seen him . |
| 15 | Much more than I 've ever seen anybody . |
| 16 | There 's more humans in this place than I 've ever seen before . |
| 17 | He looks more confident now than I 've ever seen him . |
| 18 | When Macaulay lay in bed ill once , Sydney paid a pastoral call and pronounced : ‘ He is more agreeable than I have ever seen him . |
| 19 | Several modifications have been suggested , but unfortunately there was no snow for the Aviemore race so I 've yet to see it in action . |
| 20 | OK , so I 've never seen Kurt look quite that pale before , and I 'm not sure it 's such a good idea for Courtney to be zipping about with Kurt on that hired motorbike while seven months pregnant but , hell , it 's not as if anyone 's dead . |
| 21 | I know you write under the pseudonym of Ben MacLean and wish to keep your literary activities secret , so I have never seen anything wrong in taking in your mail . ’ |
| 22 | His face was more animated than she had ever seen before . |
| 23 | There had recently been a very bad storm , leaving mud everywhere , and it seemed the sewers had overflowed in Saffron Hill , for the filth was worse than she had ever seen it . |
| 24 | He was also more formal than she had ever seen him , his suit and stiff collar making him look quite different . |
| 25 | The very sky smelt of frost though a sun bigger than she had ever seen on Mars still shone remote between gold-fringed clouds . |
| 26 | More diamonds than she had ever seen in her life . |
| 27 | His eyes looked softer than she had ever seen them , but he was n't looking at her . |
| 28 | He placed his right hand against the rounded stone of the upright , leaning over her , staring down fiercely at her as he spoke , more passionate than she had ever seen him . |
| 29 | She saw more cows at a glance than she had ever seen before . |
| 30 | Turning only his head , his eyes more black than she had ever seen them , he asked flatly , ‘ What do you think ? ’ |