Example sentences of "[vb past] see many " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd seen many changes in the penal system as a whole and Whitely in particular during his days as Governor at the prison . |
| 2 | Is there a message for me from a garage ? ’ she changed her mind to rephrase it pleasantly to the man whom she 'd seen many times before and who , from his broad welcoming smile , she knew had remembered her . |
| 3 | The matron was a sceptical young woman who had seen many different injuries in her short time at the school and heard many bizarre explanations for them . |
| 4 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 5 | Over the years Mrs. Jarrett had seen many changes , not only in the staff and resident body of the home and in the facilities it now provides , but in government legislation within the various departments of health and social security , with whom she had established for Le Court a strong and trusting relationship . |
| 6 | As they approached , Corbett realised the fortifications of Earlston were a square tower of pleasing proportions within a stockade or peel which Corbett had seen many times on his journeys into Scotland . |
| 7 | The doctor was an elderly man with a grey beard , who examined Paul gravely , then looked up at him with eyes expressionless behind their spectacles ; he had seen many such cases . |
| 8 | As a journalist I had seen many countries overseas , all smaller and poorer than ourselves , being granted self-government ; and I had hoped that Scotland would not be denied even the limited self-government that was then being dished out to the Cook Islands and the Faeroe Islands and the Cameroons . ’ |
| 9 | I had seen many pictures of attacks on the city but somehow seeing that bridge destroyed , it suddenly hit me what is happening to Baghdad . |
| 10 | And the wise old bird , who had seen many a bully brought low in the twenty years since he was hatched , clicked his beak and closed his eyes . |
| 11 | Gordon , however , had seen many cases of puerperal fever in London . |
| 12 | Since then she had seen many different expressions in his eyes : amusement , surprise , speculation , even respect . |
| 13 | He flipped open the book whose pages were filled with her beautiful , careful script , which he had seen many times on the shopping lists which she had made up under Matey 's instructions . |
| 14 | I had seen many people in the distance . |
| 15 | The major had seen many walking around with blank stares , communicating in monosyllables . |
| 16 | She said during her term of office the organisation 's base in Stockton Road , Middlesbrough , had seen many changes and was now a thriving day centre for people with a visual impairment . |
| 17 | Last night Mr Stephenson , of Limbrick Avenue , Fairfield , Stockton , said he had seen many dead bodies since , but the memory of May 's brutal murder has never left him . |