Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have [adv] see a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend who has just seen a Don Ameche movie informs the local doctor of the plot : ‘ He worked in his basement discovering things . |
| 2 | 1 How many ghost stories can you think of ? 2 Do you believe in ghosts ? 3 Do you know anybody who has ever seen a ghost ? 4 Think of one ghost story that you can remember — or make one up . |
| 3 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 4 | Fenella , who had never seen a map quite like this one , had curled up on the floor to listen . |
| 5 | It is possible that the young Evelyn , who had never seen a Court masque , was easily impressed . |
| 6 | Amaranth , thank God , looked like the sort of woman who had never seen a vacuum cleaner in her life . |
| 7 | A creature who had never seen a world outside this Castle . |
| 8 | For one thing , the score was by Rodgers and Hammerstein who had never seen a pantomime in their lives — such things were totally unknown on the other side of the Atlantic — and wrote music and lyrics for the show which fitted very well indeed in their repertoire that began with Oklahoma ! and went on , via such epics as South Pacific and The King And I , all the way to The Sound of Music . |
| 9 | I teach students who are often illiterate , who do not know how to use a hand-held calculator , who have never seen a film with subtitles or read a classic work of literature , and who can not spell even the name of important people in their field ( for example , psychology majors who spell Freud as Frued ) . |