Example sentences of "to have [been] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sally Brass was rumoured to have been seen here as a Foot Guards private on sentry-go after her brother 's imprisonment , OCS 88 . |
| 2 | Two more ghosts , two women — also in black — are said to have been seen about the village in days gone by . |
| 3 | A huge sea-monster , variously described as a serpent or squid , said to have been seen off the coast of Norway and on the North American coast . |
| 4 | The man , who was wearing a rucksack , is thought to have been seen running along the lane by motorists . ’ |
| 5 | Their backpacks are believed to have been seen on a dump . |
| 6 | Geoffrey Dudgeon , 35 — on the run from a Leicester jail when James Doy was shot dead last week in Rotherham — was reported to have been seen in Southampton . |
| 7 | She was sent the script for one of the episodes — she has never said by whom — and was so enraged by one scene in which the councillor was to have been seen leaving a prostitute 's room doing up his trousers , that she sent it straight to the Postmaster General , the Minister responsible . |
| 8 | These examples clearly demonstrate that the scenes existed but they were hardly likely to have been seen by stone masons or potters to copy . |
| 9 | Others had already leaped boldly in the expectation that others would follow , that it would prove wise to have been seen to take the plunge first . |
| 10 | Drake , on the other hand , the piratical darling of Good Queen Bess , returned from a transglobal raiding adventure with a holdful of Indonesian spices , and paraded through the streets with his crew bedecked in the captured finery of the most astounding oriental silks and damasks ever to have been seen in England . |
| 11 | There were places where we were the first Westerners ever to have been seen , though we pre-existed in their racial memory as ugly , dominating invaders . |
| 12 | If the Port is indeed the landscape listed in the catalogue , it is the first surviving Cubist painting to have been seen in a large public exhibition ( the Braque exhibition in the previous year had been at Kahnweiler 's gallery which was small and at that time known to relatively few people ) . |
| 13 | The Scentmakers ' Bazaar was not normally a place she would have allowed herself to have been seen dead in . |
| 14 | In one test , for example , children are asked to identify a traditional English beer tankard — an object unlikely ever to have been seen by a child from a Muslim background in which alcohol is proscribed . |
| 15 | Nick , 36 , who works for theatre impresario Cameron Mackintosh , is reported to have been seen having lunch with Mariella Frostrup , the 28-year-old presenter of ITV 's video review programme The Little Picture Show . |
| 16 | Meanwhile Mick is reported to have been seeing glamorous 21-year-old Aussie model Peta Wilson in Los Angeles . |