Example sentences of "[adv] see [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AN ELDERLY couple rarely seen outside their home in recent years have been found dead with more than £30,000 in cupboards and under floorboards . |
| 2 | We have already seen in our analysis of speech acts ( in 3 ) how the meaning of a simple piece of spoken discourse like The window is open can change fundamentally with the relationship of sender and receiver , and this feature of language is by no means peculiar to speech . |
| 3 | ‘ He is the best goalscorer I 've ever seen in my time in professional football , and anyone who has seen Liverpool over the years will agree he 's a very special player . ’ |
| 4 | Their idea of reality remains trapped in the cultural viewpoint which their theory of literature was trying to replace , and the difficulties which this led to can be most clearly seen in their theory of literary history : despite their innovatory definition of literary history as a discontinuous series , they were unable to explain how literary history related to other historical series . |
| 5 | Charles later saw to her commemoration at thirteen other churches too . |
| 6 | That evening , as we walked through the village that Eric had never seen on our way to the orphanage , I felt proud and happy that he had come back . |