Example sentences of "see or [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is the best England team I have ever seen or played against . |
| 2 | In The Possessed , the conspirators have enticed their victim to a dark remote spot where nothing will be seen or heard , and have done the deed and tied two heavy stones to the body so that it is sure to sink , and have carried it to a pond and thrown it in : then , ‘ With extraordinary carelessness ’ they overlook that cap which has no doubt fallen off in the struggle , and which the police will soon find . |
| 3 | No , no that did n't fit the description of anything we had ever seen or heard about . |
| 4 | To make sure he asked Mr Litmus if he had seen or heard of a scientist being found coming out of the corridors . |
| 5 | These two reports remain the source of almost all the information about the eruption ; the Royal Society in particular went to great lengths to amass every possible scrap of information and even inserted a notice in The Times requesting anyone who had seen or heard anything to come forward . |
| 6 | Failing a test was defined as being seen or heard to carry it out incorrectly ( eg to say the time was twenty past nine when the watch indicated a quarter to four ) , or being unable to attempt it ( eg being unable to answer when asked to identify a particular coin ) . |
| 7 | It is important to observe behaviour as accurately as possible because the more accurate the observation the more this helps you to place a valid interpretation on what you have seen or heard . |
| 8 | Nothing and nobody in this programme questioned the medic 's oath with which it began : ‘ I will keep silence as to anything I have seen or heard in the practice of my profession which it would be improper to divulge . ’ |
| 9 | When danger is seen or heard , drivers drive more safely . |
| 10 | ACCORDING to Plato , memory can be considered similar to a block of wax : ‘ When we wish to remember anything which we have seen or heard … we hold the wax up to the perceptions and thoughts and in that material receive the impressions of them ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ But actually I 've just bought the best electro-acoustic I 've ever seen or heard — a Takamine . |
| 12 | To pick once again examples relevant to awareness , philosophers have often argued on the assumption that since an observer can not be mistaken about what he sees or hears ( although he may mistakenly suppose that he has seen or heard it ) , or a thinker about what he knows , there must be infallible operations by which to arrive at this certainty . |
| 13 | And no one had seen or heard any struggle , although Joanna went missing shortly before 7pm last Tuesday , when she was due to take an aerobics class — and when the car park would have been busy . |
| 14 | Mr Robert Macrae , for Burnett , told the court : ‘ He realises he was irresponsible and he has not seen or heard from the girl involved since . ’ |
| 15 | Finally , after the first order system , the unit on which analysis is based ceases to be a material unit present to the senses ( as words , seen or heard ) but becomes an ideal , abstract unit created within the mind of the interpretive analyst . |
| 16 | Little is to be seen or heard during the day of the thousands of ‘ night birds ’ which nest deep in the tussac stools . |
| 17 | I suspect it has either seen or heard us , and this is confirmed by the fact that it just does n't appear again . |
| 18 | For those who claimed to have seen or heard it all before , racism was always the same old story . |
| 19 | I do n't how many of you have seen or heard reference to the recent Which report about estates and managing that . |
| 20 | Now Dean Street , where he killed her , is n't exactly a quiet area ; someone somewhere must have seen or heard something . |
| 21 | ‘ And you have n't seen or heard from Carol since last night ? ’ he said agitatedly . |
| 22 | The police took the immediate neighbours into their confidence out of sheer necessity , hoping one of them might have seen or heard something significant the previous Tuesday ; but none had . |
| 23 | Anybody who had seen or heard anything suspicious in the neighbourhood of her home on Tuesday 1st September was urged to contact Thames Valley CID . |
| 24 | Erm , what we have tried to do at , there are You 've probably seen or heard in the last five or six years , the influence of Japanese technology . |
| 25 | E here have you seen or heard any advertising for British special stamp issues ? |
| 26 | The conduct must take place within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused the sensations in question ; does this mean that the conduct must actually be seen or heard by the person whom it is intended to offend ? |
| 27 | This was the first time she had seen or heard of d'Urberville since she had left Trantridge . |
| 28 | ‘ And you 've never seen or heard of her since ? ’ |
| 29 | I 've always treated everything I 've seen or heard as absolutely confidential . |
| 30 | ‘ I have never seen or heard since my knowledge of things , ’ wrote a British admiral in 1745 , ‘ that one of our ships alone , singly opposed to one of the enemy 's of equal force , has taken her , and I have been in almost every action and skirmish since the year 1718 , and yet we are daily boasting of the prowess of our Fleet . ’ |