Example sentences of "have see [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first comment may mean that the child has no experience of seeing rusted metal , or she may have seen rusty objects but not connected them in any way with exposure to air and moisture . |
| 2 | You may have seen small single engine aircraft buzzing about the skies on warm sunny mornings . |
| 3 | Stein will also have seen grand pianos with an action design very like that of Cristofori made by Johann Heinrich in the same workshop . |
| 4 | Doctor Sloan of Ayr who conducted a post mortem examination on John was approached later by a group of old miners with the question , The doctor confessed that he had not paid particular attention to the man 's feet , whereat the miners went off with knowing expressions on their faces ; superstition had convinced them that if the doctor had looked he would have seen cloven hoofs , proving that the devil had appeared in the guise of John Brown for some evil purpose of his own . |
| 5 | Experienced personal injury counsel will have seen good and bad witnesses preparing reports and giving evidence . |
| 6 | If it was idiotic of the BP jury to make the award to such an obviously vested interest , it seems even odder that Mr Whittam-Smith , who places such store on journalistic integrity , should have seen fit to accept it . |
| 7 | Can she have seen fit to pursue some errand of blessing elsewhere ? |
| 8 | I am surprised that at this sensitive time the Scottish Development Agency should have seen fit to invest $ 500,000 in Stagecoach , but I suppose that is a matter for the SDA , unless it did that under political direction . |
| 9 | The most disappointing aspect of this matter is that he should have seen fit to introduce politics into licensing board affairs . |
| 10 | ( iii ) Pupils will have seen different kinds of writing in the home — their names on birthday cards or letters , forms , shopping lists and so on . |
| 11 | Darlington police want to speak to anyone who may have seen suspicious activity around the health authority offices at the estimated time of the incident . |
| 12 | Also in 1908 audiences could have seen Unemployed and Unemployable in which the central character begins by haranguing a crowd ; he is dragged off by his wife and given a whole range of domestic tasks all of which he makes a mess of ; he accidentally acquires stolen goods and is arrested ; the film ends with this ‘ lounger ’ working at last but in the cells . |
| 13 | Nothing certain is known of Hammond 's career from then until the eve of the civil war , but he must have seen military service in the continental wars , either in the Netherlands or Germany , since he was a trained gunnery officer before 1642 . |
| 14 | England might have seen ghostly , ghastly visions of Bruce Reid 's capacity for mass destruction . |