Example sentences of "seen a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ These include four species of cobra but I have only seen a cobra twice , ’ he said . |
| 2 | After all they had never seen a storm being still before . |
| 3 | He did not remember having seen a telephone . |
| 4 | and had seen a TV programme the previous evening relating to death . |
| 5 | Well we 've already talked briefly and we 've seen a video about Gain Multimedia and how that might enable us to address application requirements in a different way . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've seen a hay-knife ? |
| 7 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |
| 8 | They endorsed a culture of learning , and the intervening century has seen a knowledge expolosion . |
| 9 | Whilst on the market stall I had a Liverpool pensioner who had n't seen a Liverpool organisation so when I got home I sent to her a notice of the huge rally there going to hold in September , in Liverpool with a couple of Bishop 's and big national speakers , I sent that to her and also contacted a Liverpool pensioner secretary to get in touch with her , and we 've also written to erm , that 's the rally , erm , we 've also , I 've also written to Jim from Cumberland , if you remember er his down our rally , so we should have some , we decided to buy twelve copies of each publication they produce and one when we get our office will be available there . |
| 10 | Anyone who has travelled the country lanes around Holt , near Wrexham , may well have seen a tractor working that they could n't quite identify . |
| 11 | Of course Nebbins had never seen a tractor before , he wondered what it was . |
| 12 | That was the only time I 'd seen a stick being used . |
| 13 | Ell had once seen a vidfilm where that had been used for an escape bid . |
| 14 | I 'd also seen a probation person . |
| 15 | One day , Jimmy Coutts cycled in to work ( he ‘ lived out ’ with his wife and young family in a village near Cambridge ) , and said that he had seen a telegraph boy delivering a telegram at a house opposite his , where he knew the wife of one of the air crew officers at Oakington lived . |
| 16 | As with Impulse , this too is a gripping American psychological thriller , but I have n't seen a cover yet . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've never seen a sky like that in my life before , ’ Susan said softly , wonder in her voice . |
| 18 | Now I 've never seen a provision like that put forward for legislation before . |
| 19 | The nineteenth century had seen a variety of ad hoc political bodies . |
| 20 | By the time the Ashleys bought the twenty-two-room château , it had seen a variety of owners and fortunes , yet although remarkably close to the battlefront in both World Wars , had escaped any major damage . |
| 21 | We will continue to increase the Special Constabulary , which has seen a rise in recruitment this year of 10 per cent . |
| 22 | Full-time employed workers in Spain have seen a rise in their living standards . |
| 23 | He has seen a rise in the numbers of wild species in the area , including butterflies and birds snipe , curlew , green plover , skylark , merlin and kestrel . |
| 24 | And Ive never seen a ball hit from that far out , rise in a straight line ( showing the power behind it ) . |
| 25 | Many former refugee children report never having seen a Bloomsbury House representative . |
| 26 | Have you seen a pencil sharpener in here ? |
| 27 | Never seen a Goldfish book ? |
| 28 | It says that recent years have seen a transformation in Britain 's manufacturing base , and it condemns those who do not recognise it and continue to run down the achievements of British industry . |
| 29 | Each day they brought him cyclostyled sheets from their local agents , and the telephone numbers of friends ' relatives whose relatives ' friends had seen a board up somewhere . |
| 30 | He said that he had examined the plans with Sir Joseph Paxton , the other member for Coventry , and ‘ had never in his life seen a building which appeared so confused in its internal arrangements ’ . |