Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] see [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I saw the biggest , steepest cylinders of water I 'd ever seen from the relative sanctuary of the beach , and Pottz finally landed the world title . |
| 2 | Tactical voting appeared to have taken the form of latent Tories turning out to see off the much-advertised threat to the Union . |
| 3 | A NUCLEAR test veteran has been reunited with two Fijian pals he had not seen since the notorious Christmas Island atomic bomb tests 34 years ago . |
| 4 | Another sneeze dawned and he reached yet again for his handkerchief , an object which Milton felt was about as disgusting as anything he had ever seen outside the occasional severed head in a motorway accident . |
| 5 | She wore new black button-up boots and on her head was perched the largest black hat I had ever seen with a black bird on top . |
| 6 | It is n't much like any document I 've ever seen in a Civil Service file before . |
| 7 | His mouth turned sullenly down at the corners , like the mouth of a joke mug Melanie had once seen in an antique shop . |
| 8 | His face was so dark and wizened that he reminded Corbett of a monkey he had once seen in the royal menagerie in the Tower of London . |
| 9 | Close by squatted a very young Tominah whom we had often seen behind the older priests but had never talked to . |
| 10 | Sandra 's friends would all be so much younger than herself , and then she heard that the guest list comprised all age groups and included many of her old local friends whom she had n't seen for the past two years , and so she decided to go . |
| 11 | There was an expression on her face I had n't seen in a long time . |
| 12 | This can , as we have all seen over the last year or so in particular , have very severe effects on normally solvent companies . |
| 13 | As we have already seen in the previous chapter , this conflict has also been reinforced by the social changes which have occurred in rural areas , so that disputes concerning environmental preservation often coincide with local — newcomer , rural — urban , and agricultural — industrial divisions in the rural population . |
| 14 | They wanted finally to see off the third party ; predictably , they failed . ) |
| 15 | Hourcade also saw as a second feature of Cubist painting the organization of the whole surface in terms of interpenetrating or interacting planes : ‘ The fascination of the paintings lies not only in the presentation of the main objects represented , but in the dynamism which emerges from the composition , a strange , disturbing dynamism , but one that is perfectly controlled . ’ |
| 16 | Kate has a sensitivity and a gentleness in her face that we have n't seen for a long time . ’ |
| 17 | And we decided to get lots of copies for all our friends that we have n't seen for a long long time so I asked if they could do them for me but I thought they would be back by now , well they should of been back ages ago actually ! |
| 18 | No , she actually just , I have n't seen for a long time so she can have one of these . |
| 19 | ‘ I have hit shots this week I have n't seen in a long time . |