Example sentences of "[verb] seen the [noun sg] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clinton 's long-time Arkansas-based aide Betsey Wright has seen the alliance work for a dozen years . |
| 2 | H. On the fish docks at Hull a retired trawler skipper , Mr Grant , tells how he has seen the port change in his lifetime . |
| 3 | His eyes looked across to Morse 's : ‘ And he said he 'd seen the Torbay Express at Didcot , did n't he ? |
| 4 | I could hardly remember having muffins before , although I 'd seen the muffin man in his white apron , a towel over his arm and a tray of muffins every Sunday afternoon . |
| 5 | but you must have seen the metal nut in the front ! |
| 6 | Interlocking would have prevented the signalman putting the signals for the express at ‘ CLEAR ’ yet it is strange that although both footplatemen on the express admitted not having seen the home signal on the approach to Charfield both men were equally emphatic that they had seen the proceeding distant signal and they said it was showing a green light and in the clear position . |
| 7 | Having seen the loan situation from both sides of the fence it is essential that a few rules are followed to keep the arrangement sweet . |
| 8 | Some people claimed to have seen the sun turn in the sky , in the same way as it had when the miracle occurred so many years before . |
| 9 | I 've seen the video tape of Tom and I coming down the 18th . |
| 10 | Her triumph would have been short-lived if she had seen the smile slip from his face and a look of regret shape his expression ; his quiet eyes were drawn to the window , to the skyline beyond . |
| 11 | After each film was seen subjects had to decide whether they had seen the film section before or not and give a rating of their confidence in their decision . |
| 12 | She was an aristocrat and woman of royal blood , who had seen the throne pass in 518 not to her son ( who had married the Emperor Anastasius 's daughter ) , but to an uneducated provincial , Justin , the illiterate soldier-son of an Illyrian peasant . |
| 13 | Those had been her words , and if she was being exact , they would mean that he had seen the icebound vessel from the air , exactly as Sunderby had seen it . |
| 14 | In the first place , by 1986 , teachers and other educational staff had seen the purchasing power of their salaries slip to a half or a third of their 1980 value . |
| 15 | During that time , they have seen the emphasis change from reducing pollution to exploiting muck on a large scale as a source of heat and power . |
| 16 | The past few months have seen the surprise break-up of the Sport AG group in Austria which owned Fischer , Dynafit and Kastle . |
| 17 | The early years of the 1980s have seen the debate move from generalities to specifics . |