Example sentences of "i [vb past] seen [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They dropped their voices to a whisper when they saw me but I 'd seen them taking nips from a bottle of gin . |
| 3 | And she did n't really tell me , it was just that I guessed , I 'd seen them quite a few times , mooning about , and I asked her if she was going to marry him . |
| 4 | Once I 'd seen them , I realized I had to get to her before they did . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd seen them in the shops marked down , as a Christmas offer , to around nine hundred quid . |
| 6 | Told you I 'd seen them . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | I thought I 'd seen him before somewhere . |
| 9 | He was buoyant today , but also edgy and more authoritative than I 'd seen him for ages , when mostly he 'd been gloomy and sulky . |
| 10 | ‘ I had known David for quite a long time ; we come from Cambridge and I knew him vaguely in the early days — I remember when he joined the Floyd in fact — and I 'd seen him socially over the years . |
| 11 | I 'd seen him earlier that night , here at the house , behaving in a way that made me very anxious to find out what he was doing here on Moila . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd seen him around a few times . |
| 13 | I 'd seen him around at one or two private parties given by wire service operators and gamblers . |
| 14 | I was quite impressed by this and since he was going back to England that evening I decided to go back as soon as I 'd seen him off . |
| 15 | I had n't felt like this when I 'd seen him firing the shotgun . |
| 16 | I told you I 'd seen him . |
| 17 | I 'd seen him in the Feathers , surly in his own corner of the Snug , not liked by , not liking , the other villagers . |
| 18 | I tried to think of when I 'd seen him after that , apart from when we got our degrees — him proud and posing for the family album , me drunk and disorderly . |
| 19 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 20 | Father , when he used to , I 'd seen him years ago when he was a young man , he 'd do a sheep in five minutes . |
| 21 | Yeah I swore I 'd seen him before . |
| 22 | I could n't work out where I 'd seen him . |
| 23 | Yeah , I know what yo yeah , I 'm sure I 'd seen him before . |
| 24 | I think Sam accidentally kicked Hannah , or kicked Hannah I do n't know I was n't there , but he came flying down , really got to curb that child he said , I said I beg your pardon , he said you 've got to curb that child kicking Hannah , I said if I 'd seen him kick her , he said that well I 'm not sure that he actually kicked her it might have been an accident |
| 25 | He were parked up there well every coalman I 've pulled him about this coke stuff and I 'd seen him other day and I pulled him , explained that I were going over on April first |
| 26 | Did you say I 'd seen him ? |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , I 'd seen her around , ’ he said , in the Morris . |
| 28 | I was fourteen then , I 'd seen her in National Velvet , and had been barmy about her ever since . |
| 29 | is much more of a go down in colour , erm so I think probably if I 'd seen her , er prints I maybe I would of approached this erm differently , erm it gave me a very immense voice about crowds , erm , very , very different from the front of the picture apart from the alarm registered in the eyes of the , of the old woman erm , this is called Even Paradise Has Its End , sorry Even Paradise Has Its Price , sorry Ours in the night laying between sleep and arousal held in balance , fragile as dust on a scale , night spirit 's sit easy , in no hurry , even paradise has its price , would you like me to read that one again ? |
| 30 | " Once I 'd seen her , " Stephen said , " I had to report it . " |