Example sentences of "[noun] seen [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it was the first motor car seen west of the Shannon . |
| 2 | Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again . |
| 3 | To the half seen mausoleum |
| 4 | Recently Stornoway customs officers warned Danish colleagues of a suspicious vessel seen west of the Hebrides . |
| 5 | The latter declares *John was seen leave ungrammatical because the embedded clause seen leave is " unsupported " , i.e. constitutes " a subject — predicate sequence that exhibits none of the internal inflectional structures of a full sentence or clausal complementation " ( i.e. neither tense , nor infinitival to , nor progressive -ing ) , whereas John was seen to leave is said to be grammatical because here leave is " supported " ( by to ) , and can therefore serve as an argument for the verb see ( pp. 123 – 4 ) . |
| 6 | Along the same lines , we have on several occasions during experiments on bee navigation seen behaviour that appears to reflect an ability to form what experimental psychologists refer to as a ‘ cognitive map ’ . |