Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] see a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A married 27-year-old estate agent said : ‘ Most people here have probably seen a sex film — most of the guys there have 12 inch dicks , if you want to put it crudely . ’ |
| 32 | So customers spent their money on twelve-inch discs instead , and in fact I have never seen a twenty-inch Neophone record . |
| 33 | ‘ I have never seen a rain storm like it — it must have lasted more than 30 minutes . |
| 34 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 35 | ‘ I have been a nurse for ten years but I have never seen a bullet wound . |
| 36 | ‘ I have never seen an England bowler swing so much a ball that is 60 overs old . |