Example sentences of "[be] [adv] see [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Dolphins of all ages are frequently seen playing with each other .
2 Royal watchers said that during the first official engagement of the day the royal couple appeared to be in fairly good spirits , although they were not seen to talk to each other or exchange glances .
3 The face is continually seen hiding behind dark glasses , underwater goggles , and through a goldfish bowl , cutting himself off from those around him .
4 He proceeded to Cawsand and reported , ‘ Here was the scene of much confusion in the late war , when the French fleet was daily seen to float about this bay meditating destruction to the docks at Plymouth ’ .
5 Holiness , in early medieval society , was not seen to lie above all in the cultivation of a personal and interior life of prayer , morality , and spiritual meekness .
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