Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [adv] see [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one offer to transfer to New York came from Don Taffner , an American TV producer , who 'd actually seen the show at Farnham . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Fenella , who had never seen a map quite like this one , had curled up on the floor to listen . |
| 4 | It is possible that the young Evelyn , who had never seen a Court masque , was easily impressed . |
| 5 | Amaranth , thank God , looked like the sort of woman who had never seen a vacuum cleaner in her life . |
| 6 | A creature who had never seen a world outside this Castle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was not just launching a perfume , it was giving birth to a perfume , ’ said she , who had definitely seen the shape of the bottle but still chose to stick with this metaphor . |