Example sentences of "[verb] seen [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 2 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 3 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 4 | ‘ We urgently appeal to anybody who may have seen it during the 48 hours in which it was missing to contact us . ’ |
| 5 | Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Were n't you surprised to have seen him in the first place ? |
| 7 | yeah , I 've seen it in the last day or two |
| 8 | During all our alterations I 've seen it in the old garage away up in a loft and I 've seen it put out in the back yard in the rain , and I 've always saved it and it 's there today . |
| 9 | In the life she led it would have been all too easy to succumb to the myriad temptations on offer , but she had seen them for the shallow , worthless things they were , and valued her self-respect too highly to accept dross when she knew she must seek for gold . |
| 10 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 11 | He had seen them through the lean years , and here now was a good harvest . |
| 12 | She had seen him in the little town so immersed in looking up at the old buildings , that he ran into a lamppost . |
| 13 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 14 | This he read in the lavatory , where she had seen it on the first day . |
| 15 | We had seen it in the other tombs as well , sometimes carved on top of the paintings . |
| 16 | These are the people who have seen her through the difficult times , who have helped her adjust to the life before her and who have kept her in touch with the real world . |
| 17 | Some of the early sociologists regarded warfare as the means by which the first great step in social development — the expansion of human societies — was accomplished , while others have seen it as the principal factor in the formation of the state itself.4 It is evident that warfare has continued to be an important factor in these processes of expansion and consolidation of state power . |
| 18 | Too many people have seen us over the past two or three days so anything I do will be linked to you . |