Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] see [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Even close up the Mad Axe still has an air of quality about it and the finish is one of the best I 've seen on a Korean guitar . |
2 | It was the funniest sight I 've seen for a long while , but hardly fair on the birds … . |
3 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
4 | Nicest bars I 've seen in a long time . ’ |
5 | The teaming up of Land 's End Ltd with Rowland Edwards , who seems to have his own unique version of reality , produced one of the choicer pieces of double-speak I 've seen in a long time : a press release announcing a campaign to add fixed anchors and gear to the crags in the interests of the environment and safety . |
6 | ‘ All this , with the bonus of an organic approach , makes it one of the most original books on gardening that I 've seen in a long time , ’ says our kitchen garden correspondent , Adam Pasco . |
7 | Elland Road was the emptiest I 've seen in a long time , 23,000 of which 4000 were Crewe fans . |
8 | It was a hell of a match , one of the best I 've seen in a long while ( live that is ) . |
9 | Hell of a good film though , it 's the best film I 've seen in a long time . |
10 | He greeted her calmly and as he turned the ignition key he said , ‘ I have to see to a young leopard and treat the hippo , who , they tell me , is a bit off colour . |
11 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
12 | If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest . |
13 | Each yoke carries a properly designed and built-in PTT button , unlike some of the Jubilee clipped-on afterthoughts I have seen on a great many Wichita and Lock Haven singles , with the associated ‘ curly cable ’ disappearing behind the lower instrument panel . |
14 | This is the highest quality educational package I have seen in a long time and is well worth registering . |
15 | As we have seen in a previous chapter , he argued that such an illusory growth could in fact mask a real decline in values and use-values . |
16 | There is a deep sense of untimeliness about the death of a child and whereas , as we have seen in an earlier chapter , it is possible to look on some deaths as timely and part of the natural rhythm of life , when a child is involved this does not seem to be so . |
17 | Food : As we have seen in an earlier chapter , our physical condition has a great influence on our minds and our emotions — the reverse also being true . |
18 | As we have seen in an earlier chapter , by gentleman or noble person Spenser is thinking of a distinctive class of person , but his desire to fashion gentlemen nevertheless might be seen as directed at individual development . |
19 | It 's been the best bit of talent we 've , they 've seen for a long while ! |