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 | There before him stood one of the tallest , thinnest men he had ever seen outside a circus . |
| 4 | What 's the weirdest thing you 've ever seen in an audience when you 've been onstage ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |