Example sentences of "have [adv] see a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has just seen a prospectus in which the Government is offering for sale , shares in British Rail . |
| 2 | Most likely a first-time father has never seen a person in such pain and it 's also the person he loves most . |
| 3 | Claire has never seen a man in a leopardskin jockstrap before . |
| 4 | I 'd never seen a weapon like that before — only military rifles . |
| 5 | Mr Luck said that the Mail on Sunday 's critic had only seen a rehearsal for the play . |
| 6 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |
| 7 | In February the clergy were outlawed ; although Winchelsey 's response was to excommunicate the violators of Clericis Laicos , Edward had already seen a way past this . |
| 8 | I had already seen a couple of ringed seals , several eider duck , many Arctic terns and kittiwakes and a few scruffy immature glaucous gulls before I crept into my bunk to sleep . |
| 9 | I 've just seen a tape of the BBC 's The Gospels , produced by Jack Emery , which is being shown every day during Easter week . |
| 10 | Very fortunately , for goldfinches and linnets , I soon discovered , happened to be two of the reserve 's commonest species and it would have been akin to rushing out to tell my neighbours back home that I had just seen a sparrow in the yard . |
| 11 | No human eye had ever seen a hound like this one . |
| 12 | It was the first time that Jehan had ever seen a Sechem at a loss for words . |
| 13 | Neither Ari or Nathan had ever seen a place like it . |
| 14 | And er th they used to make some of the batteries up , the cells , the , the used to er I do n't know if you 've ever seen a cell in a battery , it 's usually made up of er wood er lead and wood . |
| 15 | He had once seen a naturalist on the television who seemed to him to be an analogue of himself . |
| 16 | Franca had once seen a film of a burial at sea , how the coffin slid with a curious slowness down toward the waves and entered them without a splash . |
| 17 | As he walked away from the house , Mark had remembered that it was along this street , with its brightly — almost garishly — painted houses that Sophia had once seen a cluster of what she took to be exotic tropical fruits in one of the windows , only to realise that they were tomatoes put there to ripen . |
| 18 | Not everyone here is committed , but the majority are(I 've also seen a member of staff put his papers in . |
| 19 | A woman had also seen a man in a boat sailing away from the beach . |
| 20 | I 've often seen a cat without a grin , ’ thought Alice , ‘ but never a grin without a cat ! ’ |
| 21 | Oki Electric Industry Co Ltd warns that it will likely make an unconsolidated or parent company current loss of $335m for the year to March 31 ; it had previously seen a loss of $215m and reported an $11m profit last year ; it expects a group current loss of $344m for the year . |
| 22 | I 've yet to see a case of what we would define as really rape . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've never seen a scene like it and never want to again , ’ said Mr Yoxall as he surveyed the carnage . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've never seen a sky like that in my life before , ’ Susan said softly , wonder in her voice . |
| 25 | Now I 've never seen a provision like that put forward for legislation before . |
| 26 | And I 've never seen a case in which there was a fist fight in front of the cinema and they pulled the movie because of it . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've never seen a lugworm like it ’ |
| 28 | Was it you probably wo n't believe this but I 've never seen a programme of Spitting Image . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've never seen a report like this . |
| 30 | Elizabeth had never seen a ghost in her life . |