Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] see a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I REMEMBER once seeing a small girl remove a tin of soup from halfway down a display stack in a supermarket . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've only seen a small part of the hospital wing , ’ Fairham observed . |
| 3 | Well , I 've just seen a new way forward |
| 4 | I 've just seen a big crane . |
| 5 | Right , okay , my boudoir , I 've just seen a few things together . |
| 6 | We 've already seen a brief glimpse of of of of Gain Multimedia . |
| 7 | ‘ Here we are , ’ gushed the presenter of Gardeners ' World , ‘ we 're in my very favourite corner of the estate now , with its magnificent , sweeping views down to the river.just look at this superb example of Metasequoiaglyptostroboides , or Dawn Redwood to give it its more familiar name , I do n't think I 've ever seen a better specimen anywhere . |
| 8 | I 've yet to see a lovable moptop Inspiral Carpet in the flesh , but obviously they 're on the verge of making it here when they 're staying in the same hotel as Bruce Dickinson out of Iron Maiden . |
| 9 | Can I reiterate what he he actually said in a meeting with Calum er Carole Degucht er last year er he said I do y the honourable , my honourable friend said I do not see that uniformity means adopting a system of proportional representation and I 've yet to see a good case as to the merits of different states adopting the same procedure . |
| 10 | I 've never seen a blacker car in my life ! |
| 11 | ‘ I 've never seen a real cow , ’ he said to himself . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've never seen a quicker boy . |
| 13 | Rumour has it he 's getting wilder and wilder as time goes on — and I 've never seen a wild man before . |
| 14 | The XJ speeds north over the road-bridge , no lights or siren on but we clip along and it 's the smoothest fucking motorway journey I 've ever had ; just a total hassle-free zone creaming along around the ton with no worries about unmarked police cars and hoo-wee the traffic in front of us just fucking evaporates ; man , just brakes ( and wobbles sometimes as the guy probably gets the cold sweats and the wo-where'd-my-stomach-go ? feeling ) , swings meekly left and brakes again ; you 've never seen a beefy BMW 5-series duck in so fast in your life ; might as well all be driving 2CVs . |
| 15 | ‘ You know I 've never seen a dead body before , ’ Laura murmured . |
| 16 | And we have latterly seen a feminist perspective informing the debate about nuclear weapons . |
| 17 | I have rarely seen a faster disappearance . |
| 18 | Dreaming does not seem to be confined to our own species : research on the subject would appear to indicate that animals likewise have dreams : we have all seen a sleeping dog twitch as it ‘ chases rabbits ’ . |
| 19 | Most of these people have only seen a second half since the police closed the Oval club . |
| 20 | Five-year , full-time education is the norm almost world-wide , however it is organised , and the present levels of funding have already seen a drastic reduction of staffing levels in the schools . |
| 21 | Youth workers in Leeds have also seen a sharp increase in the number of 17-year-olds in custody . |
| 22 | We have also seen a surprising application of it in the case of Rowland v. Divall ( see paragraph 7–08 above ) . |
| 23 | Much of this year 's spurt in capital spending ( up from around $150m to some $220m ) is related to airbags , but the speciality chemical businesses have also seen a big increase , spread over a number of small projects . |
| 24 | ‘ I have yet to see a Scottish team look weak , no matter how depleted they were to begin with , ’ he said . |
| 25 | To see that this is the case , annotate each term below to say whether it belongs to the typical register of the birthday card or the register of the legal contract ( even if you have never seen a legal contract you can probably do this ) . |
| 26 | I have never seen a male manager in tears . |