Example sentences of "have [adv] seen a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has not seen a single second of the Costa Del Sol soap since . |
| 2 | Nadia has already seen a good deal of Scotland , and also went on a school trip to France and Belgium when pupils of St Mary 's accompanied members of a pensioners ' lunch club to find out about the European Community and the European Parliament . |
| 3 | Home-working has also seen a considerable upsurge — with women as its most thoroughly exploited victims . |
| 4 | The structure of employment has also seen a steady shift out of agriculture ( 23 per cent 1960 : 8 per cent 1987 ) and manufacturing ( 40 per cent 1960 : 33 per cent 1987 ) towards the service sector ( 37 per cent 1960 : 58 per cent 1987 ) ( Fig. 6.1 ) . |
| 5 | But she has never seen a real hummingbird . |
| 6 | And er that was the first time I 'd ever seen a continental headboard . |
| 7 | They would n't make those weird garden ornaments if they 'd ever seen a real nome . ’ |
| 8 | I never went to one , I 'd never seen a live band that actually wrote their own stuff . |
| 9 | She 'd never seen anyone so transfixed , but then he 'd never seen a naked woman before . |
| 10 | It was as if he 'd never seen a naked woman . |
| 11 | I 'd never seen a white blues band playing so good and this kid , Jimmie Vaughan , was playing some of the most devastating guitar I 've ever heard in my life . |
| 12 | On 24 May 1988 , the last bit of meat went out the door , and an hour later I felt I 'd never seen a T-bone steak ! ’ |
| 13 | I put my hands over my eyes to shut out my fears : I 'd never seen a dead person before . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've only seen a small part of the hospital wing , ’ Fairham observed . |
| 15 | Well , I 've just seen a new way forward |
| 16 | I 've just seen a big crane . |
| 17 | We 've already seen a brief glimpse of of of of Gain Multimedia . |
| 18 | I 've not seen a double yoke egg for a long , long time , I do n't know why , but sometimes you used to get a box of six and nearly all of them would be double yoke for some reason , do n't ask me why , I do n't know , where 's your cup ? , did you bring it in ? |
| 19 | It was the first time I had ever seen a live tennis match — Wimbledon has always been out of the question financially , and the Midland Bank tournament offered me the chance to see live international tennis at a reasonable price . |
| 20 | Jarvis had once seen a poor girl 's skirt blown over her head and been embarrassed for her . |
| 21 | Edward stood still ; he had once seen a whole flock of long-tailed tits here , swinging like pink jewels among the flickering leaves of a silver birch . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've never seen a real cow , ’ he said to himself . |
| 23 | Rumour has it he 's getting wilder and wilder as time goes on — and I 've never seen a wild man before . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ You know I 've never seen a dead body before , ’ Laura murmured . |
| 26 | He took to pacing the streets of London , very often in the poorer areas , in all weathers , alone , seldom speaking to anyone but staring , staring as if he had never seen a poor person in his life before . |
| 27 | I had never seen a happy jogger and I was not ill . |
| 28 | Many of the 2,000-plus troops were teenagers who had never seen a dead body before , let alone large-scale massacres . |
| 29 | In Jamaica I had never seen a white person ; to us youngsters they were an unknown quantity . |
| 30 | And we have latterly seen a feminist perspective informing the debate about nuclear weapons . |