Example sentences of "seen the [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mary told him how she had taken provisions to Granny Fordham , then seen the deer in the back of the car , and been chased , and finally how she had cross the marsh to reach the keeper before the raiders got away .
2 The Lions will decide whether to complain about the assault on Richards when they have seen the video of the game .
3 Perkin knew it was I who had remembered that the floorboards should have floated , and on Monday he 'd seen the plank on the dining-room table and heard Doone and me talking in close private consultation .
4 He said : ‘ You should have seen the look on the faces of the children this morning .
5 He said : ‘ You should have seen the look on the faces of the children this morning .
6 I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him .
7 Beadle 's About producer Robert Randall giggled : ‘ You should have seen the look on the guy 's face .
8 Council spokeswoman Jane Williams said : ‘ We were able to award the hardship relief having seen the circumstances of the company and the unique service it provides to the community . ’
9 Lewis had seen the phone in the entrance-hall and with Mrs Kemp 's permission he now quickly left the room and rang HQ for a WPC .
10 He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground .
11 The case turns on whether he could or should have seen the case in the back of the lorry when he was lacing it up .
12 He touched her eyes , her mouth , her nose , and Tallis understood that he had seen the hints of the face within the wood .
13 Many people , for example , will have seen the film of the Greenpeace anti-whaling efforts putting their little inflatable craft between the angry whalers and the hunted whales .
14 ‘ We have n't seen the bottom of the market yet but the trend is in the right direction . ’
15 ‘ I 'm not sure we 've seen the bottom of the industry decline yet . ’
16 He had not seen the correspondence about the lines through Denbigh , as his men no longer worked over , nor signed the road to Denbigh .
17 I 've seen the plans for the houses and they 're peculiarly insensitive — more suitable for Milton Keynes . ’
18 Others , most notably the members of the Peacock Committee on Financing the BBC ( 1986 ) , have seen the question of the licence fee as a small , but key , part of the much needed review of British broadcasting .
19 She had wanted it since last Christmas when they went to the pantomime in Dublin and she had seen the girls on the stage dancing in pink velvet dresses like this .
20 Having seen the function of the Bank of England in the sterling money markets carrying out its role as lender of last resort , it is now possible to look at the significance of its open market operations in relation to interest rate determination in the money markets and in the wider economy .
21 Some field men have been in the job long enough to have seen the protection of the environment become a matter of considerable public concern .
22 Detectives are appealing for the lorry driver and any other witnesses who may have seen the struggle in the supermarket or car park to come forward .
23 We have now seen the silliness of the anti-evolutionist 's assumption that the answer is an obvious no .
24 I understand the hon. Gentleman 's concern , because I have seen the reports of the increase in vandalism and hooliganism in Workington .
25 They dived down from out of the sun to the south and in view of the short space of time that had elapsed since the aircraft had landed it is almost certain that the enemy aircraft must have seen the Sunderland in the air .
26 Mum Pat Hoey , 48 , said : ‘ Vicky is thrilled to bits after the dog was found by two women who had seen the story in the Echo and looked for our house in Tuebrook .
27 Yet Mrs Blakey continued to sense the unease she 'd been aware of on the telephone , which she 'd first of all sensed when she 'd looked out of the landing window and seen the boy with the children in the garden .
28 I told him about Frankland , and how I had seen the boy with the food .
29 You know and if you 'd seen the size of the temple there were thinking well , come on , and the trouble that they 'd gone through over their history to establish er a capital city with a temple as the main feature , they were not happy about him saying that .
30 And it may have still seemed a lot of money at I think one thousand seven hundred and fifty pounds , I ca n't comment or not not having seen the size of the estate , but it compares quite well with the five thousand one hundred and sixty sixty pound Five hu Five thousand seven hundred and sixteen pounds that the Midland bank charge on the particular estate .
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