Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] see [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
| 2 | The ‘ Edinburgh Courant ’ of 21st May commented ‘ The Comet of Helensburgh , a vessel worked by steam and the first of the kind ever seen in this quarter , is at present lying in Leith Harbour ’ . |
| 3 | Much of it with plants rarely seen in modern flower beds . |
| 4 | In no sense are these hospitals now seen as second rate . |
| 5 | Those who used large parts of the system regularly saw from daily observation that many staff enjoyed ever less satisfaction . |
| 6 | But had the minister read the introduction to that paper he would have found the following : ‘ The metabolism and excretion of compounds with a prolonged half-life , however , may be slower in old age as a result of impaired renal function commonly seen in this age group . |