Example sentences of "[verb] seen in a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Nobody stops learning , but at only 15st I 'm the fastest heavyweight the world has seen in a long time . ’ |
2 | It was a hell of a match , one of the best I 've seen in a long while ( live that is ) . |
3 | Nicest bars I 've seen in a long time . ’ |
4 | The teaming up of Land 's End Ltd with Rowland Edwards , who seems to have his own unique version of reality , produced one of the choicer pieces of double-speak I 've seen in a long time : a press release announcing a campaign to add fixed anchors and gear to the crags in the interests of the environment and safety . |
5 | ‘ All this , with the bonus of an organic approach , makes it one of the most original books on gardening that I 've seen in a long time , ’ says our kitchen garden correspondent , Adam Pasco . |
6 | Elland Road was the emptiest I 've seen in a long time , 23,000 of which 4000 were Crewe fans . |
7 | Hell of a good film though , it 's the best film I 've seen in a long time . |
8 | He was about to leave the foundry and continue his journey when an apprentice came rushing in with the loveliest girl he had seen in a long while , and his heart seemed to stop . |
9 | I wore a suit that Mary had seen in a second-hand shop in Paris and insisted I bought so that at least I had one outfit I could put on for interviews without worrying whether it looked OK or not . |
10 | Behind the brunette there stood a man whom Lee had seen in a long-running television serial , playing a detective . |
11 | This is the highest quality educational package I have seen in a long time and is well worth registering . |
12 | As we have seen in a previous chapter , he argued that such an illusory growth could in fact mask a real decline in values and use-values . |
13 | There is a deep sense of untimeliness about the death of a child and whereas , as we have seen in an earlier chapter , it is possible to look on some deaths as timely and part of the natural rhythm of life , when a child is involved this does not seem to be so . |
14 | Food : As we have seen in an earlier chapter , our physical condition has a great influence on our minds and our emotions — the reverse also being true . |
15 | As we have seen in an earlier chapter , by gentleman or noble person Spenser is thinking of a distinctive class of person , but his desire to fashion gentlemen nevertheless might be seen as directed at individual development . |