Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] see [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But fascinated as I was by these aquatic birds , I longed to see the falcons and owls I 'd seen at the zoo flying free , and this is a rare occurrence . |
| 2 | They could not keep it going in the quarter-final , though they gave Richard and Jonathon Lavelle , of The Berkshire , five shots and beat them 3 & 2 after blue skies gave way to one of the most vicious snow squalls I have seen on a golf course . |
| 3 | Milton Shulman , in the London Evening Standard , described Crawford and Corbett 's acting as ‘ two of the neatest comic performances I have seen in the West End for some time ’ . |
| 4 | Dreadful destruction and carnage was everywhere , reminding Maggie of pictures she 'd seen of the Great War . |
| 5 | Then she thought about those other long low huts she 'd seen in the fenced-off meadow beyond St Michael and All Angels . |
| 6 | Approaching the crags we 've seen for a couple of days . |
| 7 | I must say Professor Hoskin I was rather struck by pictures in the papers today , yesterday of Boris Yeltsin standing over a boar he 'd shot , it was strongly reminiscent of pictures we 've seen of the former president of Romania , Ceauşescu . |
| 8 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 9 | They were slanted somehow , and he recollected pictures he had seen of the early ancestors of the Manchu . |
| 10 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 11 | This package is one of the more promising packages I have seen in the Shareware market for handling home finances in the U.K. if you only have mono display . |
| 12 | ‘ It was a real old-fashioned adventure and one of the best films I 've seen for a while . ’ |
| 13 | If we can get some action on the ground to tackle rights of way issues , we 'll be able to deal with the kinds of conflicts we 've seen in the past decade . |
| 14 | ‘ All things I have seen in the days of my vanity : there is a just man that perisheth in his righteousness , and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ But the increase in staff numbers is only one of the dramatic changes I have seen within the company . |
| 16 | These are but a few of the self-created problems we 've seen around the festivals . |
| 17 | She would be just like the fairy dancers they had seen on the stage , and her feet would n't look big and flat in those shoes because they had lovely pointy toes , and little pom-poms on them . |
| 18 | And on a er visit to a museum a few weeks later he also discovered flying boots of exact prints he 'd seen on the wet floor . |
| 19 | Watching , Jess was reminded of a pack of alley cats she 'd seen at the rear of Samson 's smithy one night . |
| 20 | Planners and other bureaucrats we have seen as the spokesmen of the dominant ideology , of rules and procedures , of the interests of the state apparatus and of national policies . |
| 21 | Corbett concentrated on the mystery surrounding King Alexander 's death but the visions he had seen in the Pictish village returned to haunt him . |
| 22 | The exact timing of the sensitive period differs between species ; domestic chicks , for example , only follow objects they have seen during the first three days after hatching , whereas for mallard ducklings , the phase lasts for 10–15 days after hatching . |
| 23 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
| 24 | And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them . |
| 25 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps symbolic is the typical picket line of today ; people in high spirits shouting slogans and singing to the beat of a salsa band as they march defiantly under the eyes of the police contrast with the solemn processions of strikers we had seen in the 1940s , walking through the streets in silence and in proper order , as if to create any disturbance was a mark of poor breeding . |
| 27 | Basically , the methods we used , although tried and tested by other organisations did not bring us the 4,000 members we hoped to see by the end of 1992 . |
| 28 | Nicest bars I 've seen in a long time . ’ |
| 29 | Here 's the list I 've made so far — all the children I have seen in the last three weeks . |
| 30 | Minton would have been familiar with Buffet 's art , and that of other picasso-influenced French Realists , either through reproductions or from exhibitions he had seen at the Anglo-French Institute . |