Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] see [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was coming at me like a bullet , head shaking , lips curled back , teeth long and yellow and by far the biggest I 'd ever seen on a rabbit , live or dead .
2 A number of black children , particularly boys , seem to lose interest in the school 's aims ( unless they are good at games , then they dissociate that from the rest ) in the third year and , from then , become increasingly seen as an anti-culture … probably the most striking manifestation of West Indian pupils , is just that group of large boys , and the sort of threatening physical presence , which you can see consistently around the school .
3 Cos you do n't see through a joke .
4 Dave was off with his hernia Ross , Wayne Lindsay we 've not seen for a year , I mean I know things have been difficult for the last year
5 There before him stood one of the tallest , thinnest men he had ever seen outside a circus .
6 What 's the weirdest thing you 've ever seen in an audience when you 've been onstage ?
7 He realized with a shock that they reminded him of steers he had once seen in a railroad siding back home in Richmond , Virginia , crowded uncomprehendingly in trucks bound for the slaughterhouse .
8 He wrote to his sister , who he had n't seen for a year , as he had been travelling round Europe before joining the Legion .
9 I have just seen in a saleroom catalogue a single manuscript leaf from an early fourteenth century Bible , patiently and diligently written by a scribe in Southern France , illuminated , historiated and decorated' in gold , red and blue .
10 The Fractal Geometry of Nature reminds us that mathematics can surprise us with insights into the world in which we live ; it has the most beautiful graphics 1 have ever seen in a mathematics book .
11 The autumn statement contains something that I have never seen in an autumn statement before — a chart designed to show not figures showing what might happen in the economy but estimates of consumer confidence based on Gallup poll evidence .
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