Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] see [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've seen others about infertility , ’ she admitted over lunch . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've seen Madonna in person and , before that , I thought she was at least cute . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've seen women on stage here , ’ Owen objected . |
| 4 | But I 've seen pictures of Holiday in a beaded sheath just like that , taken well before the war , and publicity shots of some of those French singers or chanteuses coming down staircases in just the same sort of thing even earlier in the century . |
| 5 | I have seen photographs of orca , both still and movie , close-up and underwater , but nothing prepares me for the sight of a real one that scythes out of the water 100 metres or so away from the boat . |
| 6 | I have seen clauses in record contracts which are absolutely meaningless and which I would happily have traded for a defined amount of money for a tour support , video , or promotional commitment . |
| 7 | If you want to see hell on earth go to the condemned hole the night before execution day . |
| 8 | It 's at times like this you start to see things in perspective . ’ |
| 9 | You 've seen you 've seen figures for intestacy . |
| 10 | Ah 've seen pictures of drinkin' vessels where the only way of gettin' at the liquor is through the penis , but Ah 've never seen fellatio depicted or pictures of miniatures like this … |
| 11 | Erm we expect to see improvements on chlorine , but I ca n't give you a time . |
| 12 | We do see scope for research into resource allocation but believe this ought to be quite different from the common practice of the 1980s of relating census variables to utilisation rates . |
| 13 | We 've seen treaties on er nuclear disarmament , we 've seen treaties on control of the Panama canal in recent years . |
| 14 | We 've seen loads of model guitars of late , but these are definitely some of the nicest . |
| 15 | And in Bosnia , in the very heart of a supposedly prosperous and civilised continent , we have seen acts of genocide and other war crimes comparable in horror to those of the Hitler and Stalin regimes . |
| 16 | Inveterate trafficker in traffic systems Peek Plc told its annual meeting yesterday that it saw signs of a trading upturn in March : ‘ Although trading conditions in the first two months of the current year continued to be difficult , we have seen signs of improvement in March — there is currently a significant amount of enquiry and bidding activity and it is expected that this will translate into firm orders , ’ chairman Ken Maud said . |
| 17 | Lord Mayor Bill Egerton said : ‘ We have seen shards of glass embedded in the ground . |
| 18 | We have seen instances of equation between E and E , and between P and P. We assume that equations between P and E are fundamentally incoherent ( though see the remarks below , concerning ( 37 ) ) . |
| 19 | ‘ In Scotland we have seen employment in manufacturing tumble from 605,000 people in 1979 to 348,000 today . |
| 20 | They have seen pictures of Iron Age encampments , but had done very little previous work on the topic before starting on the drama . |