Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] seen [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are over 150 and he has already seen all but 40 . |
| 2 | This newly built shopping centre has already seen some of it 's customers go bust , leaving behind unlet premises . |
| 3 | This newly built shopping centre has already seen some of it 's customers go bust , leaving behind unlet premises . |
| 4 | Third , the author has generally seen little or nothing of the actual restoration work , yet , once it is finished , presumes to assess it with unshakeable authority . |
| 5 | ( Despite what they may say , everyone DOES believe in invisible things — no one doubts the existence of wind , electricity , love or toothache , even though no one has ever seen any of those things ! ) |
| 6 | Tideswell Dale has also seen some activity . |
| 7 | It could also be that for some of you 1988 has also seen some trouble , a bereavement perhaps , that has shaken you to the foundations . |
| 8 | In fourteen years working with sheep , farmer Gwyn Davies has never seen such a whopping lamb before : |
| 9 | She has never seen any living animal or bird at all . |
| 10 | The lexical procedure works by retrieving previously learned information about the specific letter string being read ( and so can not be used for reading non-words aloud , since the reader has never seen these before ) . |
| 11 | We 'd only seen these in tanks before , and the initial reaction was that they were OK , but … |
| 12 | I 'd never seen such chatter , nervousness and exhilaration in the dressing room before . |
| 13 | She 'd never seen such a champion blusher . |
| 14 | I 'd never seen such rage in you before |
| 15 | they cope , I mean as far as they were concerned , as far as they were concerned they 'd never seen such , the crematorium was packed , the people was all lined outside |
| 16 | As she heaved herself up against the pillows she discovered she was wearing a man 's shirt , extra-large and striped , and she 'd never seen that before , either . |
| 17 | But she 'd never seen that someone . |
| 18 | It could have come from what happened with us , even if we 'd never seen each other again ! " |
| 19 | It was quite amazing really because we 'd never seen any of these things before . |
| 20 | She 'd never seen either of us in a suit before — we were running them in , checking for labels we 'd missed and so on — and we had stood on her doorstep as if we were about to launch into the ‘ Have you heard the Good News … ’ routine . |
| 21 | Norwich had rarely seen such a large exhibition of contemporary art involving alternative art practices . |
| 22 | Corbett had rarely seen such beauty . |
| 23 | Yes , we 've all seen all the reports — distributed open systems end up costing downsizers more money than the mainframe ever did , that there are many applications that can be handled only by the mainframe , that the mainframe has a bright future if only IBM Corp can get over its present problems . |
| 24 | ‘ We 've all seen this initiative stymied far too long ’ , Senator said about her bill , co-sponsored by Senator . |
| 25 | We 've all seen those photographs of dieters who can now slip into just one leg of their trousers after losing five stone . |
| 26 | I 've only seen that precise colour once before . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We think it 's pretty special ourselves — the land of beech trees , storks and marguerites — and you 've only seen such a small part of it . |
| 28 | I was really deeply moved as I had only seen such a thing before in religious pictures . |
| 29 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 30 | He fetched a soiled length of plough cord which had obviously seen much service and fastened it round the cow 's hock . |