Example sentences of "see a [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have n't seen a man for a week . ’ |
| 2 | They radioed that , at the Bunbeg bus turn-about and taxi stand on the Glen Road , they had seen a man with a revolver accompanied by two other men , one of whom was looking at the nearby mountain through binoculars . |
| 3 | Claire has never seen a man in a leopardskin jockstrap before . |
| 4 | A woman had also seen a man in a boat sailing away from the beach . |
| 5 | But first John Major 's , and now Norman Lamont 's , tenure at the Treasury has seen a resumption of a policy that is inimical to both the industry 's and the Government 's long-term interests . |
| 6 | I had noticed the name on the map ; it seemed very remote but I had seen a reference to an inn there . |
| 7 | Mr Kinnock arrived in the Tory-held marginal seat of Hyndburn to be greeted by the Labour candidate , Mr Greg Pope , and a local joke at the expense of the former MP , Mr Ken Hargreaves , who courted the headlines last year after claiming to have seen a vision during a visit to the religious shrine at Medugorje in Yugoslavia . |
| 8 | The past 30 years has seen a continuation of the break-up of the old landlord and tenant system . |
| 9 | Like Samuel stated , in a woman suffered strokes , seventy eight percent will survive at least one , have you ever seen a person with a stroke ? |
| 10 | Have you ever seen a person with a stroke ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mr Luck said that the Mail on Sunday 's critic had only seen a rehearsal for the play . |
| 13 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 14 | It was the first time that Jehan had ever seen a Sechem at a loss for words . |
| 15 | He had once seen a naturalist on the television who seemed to him to be an analogue of himself . |
| 16 | I 've often seen a cat without a grin , ’ thought Alice , ‘ but never a grin without a cat ! ’ |
| 17 | I mean what you 're looking for is a reduction or what you would have liked to have seen a reduction in the land allocation for employment needs , and yet in the other breath you are saying to North Yorkshire , you should really cater for one hundred percent migration . |
| 18 | With that burden around us we have seen a reduction in the number of full-time officers being appointed by the union and which in turn has without any doubt had a detrimental effect upon the members who we serve . |
| 19 | The early Church , noting that this miracle took place in the wilderness , ‘ a lonely place ’ , would have seen a parallel with the feeding of the children of Israel with manna in the wilderness of the Sinai desert . |
| 20 | A spokeswoman for the ministry said that it had seen a draft of the report earlier in the year and had felt that it had made ‘ inappropriate use ’ of the generalised derived limits . |
| 21 | The creation and enhancement of shareholder value is at the core of Group strategy for the long term — 1992 has seen a watershed in the Group 's achievement of this aim . |
| 22 | However , there are two circumstances in which Parliament has seen a role for the Secretary of State . |
| 23 | Recent years have seen a multiplication in the number of TV channels and of communications media other than traditional terrestrial television — government pressure on broadcasters is perforce less effective than when there was only one channel . |
| 24 | Every day on his way to school he had seen a brooch in the jeweller 's window , the price showing on a card beside it . |
| 25 | Amazingly , 1986 has seen a reappearance of the singer-songwriter , with Peter Case , Stan Ridgway and Andy White receiving more than a smattering of applause . |
| 26 | Finding a style in these parts without having seen a production of the play can be a problem , but as with absurd drama , there is a lot of room for personal interpretation . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
| 29 | Mr Pinder said he had seen a woman in a wheelchair throw away two tickets for an evening performance at the theatre in Newcastle after she was told no-one would be available to help her on her return journey . |
| 30 | Have n't seen a woman in a hat for years . |