Example sentences of "have seen [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The year has seen success in the development and commercialisation of a new series of fast fire glazes for the previously unavailable from less sophisticated systems . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | One has seen people from the shop floor sent to help start up plants overseas , and seen them rapidly take responsibilities far beyond those which they had been given in their home organization . |
| 4 | Little wonder , really , she acknowledged ruefully — she 'd seen women in the building all but swoon at his feet every time he walked down the corridor . |
| 5 | When Kirk Douglas became a target for a drunkard in a bar who 'd seen Douglas as the boxer in Champion , Kirk merely slammed his hand on the bar and shouted , ‘ Anyone in this bar can lick me in a fight , ’ and the drunkard backed off . |
| 6 | Connections : I 'd seen Nevil at Sedgeley House ; I 'd seen Jo at the Mimosa Club where Nevil was supposed to work , or at least beat up barmen . |
| 7 | And I heard Monks say that he 'd seen Oliver in the street , and that he knew at once Oliver was the child he was looking for , although I could n't hear why . |
| 8 | Perdita remembered Sukey being just as deferential to Grace Alderton three years ago , the first time she 'd seen Ricky in the flesh . |
| 9 | When he 'd said he 'd seen Stephen at the funeral she 'd felt afraid of him for a moment . |
| 10 | After all , I 'd seen pictures of the Queen riding in a carriage , the royal bride and groom rode in a carriage . |
| 11 | After all , I 'd seen pictures of the Queen riding in a carriage , the royal bride and groom rode in a carriage . |
| 12 | As the 50th anniversary of the ending of World War II approaches , an increasing percentage of pensioners will have seen service in the Forces , or are the widows of ex-servicemen . |
| 13 | Elsewhere in the Black Country in 1741 , William Hutton might also have seen women at the family forges making chains , nuts , bolts and screws , though these were much less populated trades than was nail making . |
| 14 | Some of you may have seen leaflets about the knitting competition which is being run on behalf of the Stroke Association . |
| 15 | EMPLOYEES MAY have seen stories in the press recently about how much local government is going to cost but may not be aware the Council staff provided information which was quoted in the controversy . |
| 16 | Readers of Transport will no doubt have seen references in the magazine to seminars being held by the TSUG . |
| 17 | Windows and its applications are notorious for the creation of temporary files — if you 've ever crashed out of Windows you may have seen files with the extension . |
| 18 | ‘ We 'll have seen parts of the world we would never have had the chance to visit otherwise , and we 'll have been a lot luckier than most . ’ |
| 19 | But my guess is that the Festival is on to a real winner in the merchandising stakes , having seen bits of the logo featured in imaginative guises on clothing , stationary , mugs , and even Festival cheques . |
| 20 | I should have liked to have seen Sligo at the turn of the century , or failing that , in sunny weather . |
| 21 | Leoni was an adventurer in the service of Charles V and Phillip II of Spain , and also claimed — rightly , it would appear — to have seen service at the oar of a rowed galley . |
| 22 | Sick also suggested that several people claimed to have seen Bush at the Paris meeting , although he admitted that he was not yet convinced of the veracity of this aspect of the affair . |
| 23 | Oh , well she rang up , I 've seen Christopher in the catalogue |
| 24 | To date , we 've seen Rome from the Air , Venice from the Air , Florence from the Air , with Thames & Hudson releasing Egypt from the Air and Tuscany from the Air . |
| 25 | I 've seen Swindon on the television in Holland . |
| 26 | ‘ They 've seen Doctor In The House images — all work , and medical textbooks being pored over . |
| 27 | I 've seen photographs of the ploughing match in Berry . |
| 28 | Half an hour after Rachaela had seen Ruth into the house , Emma 's knock sounded on the door . |
| 29 | Colin Wallace , who had seen Lewis on the day he vanished , was charged with murder . |
| 30 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |