Example sentences of "[adv] seen a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Luck said that the Mail on Sunday 's critic had only seen a rehearsal for the play . |
| 2 | I had only seen a wall there before , and now my heart leapt when I saw , through the Bride and the Bachelors , through the Milky Way and the Chariot and the Grinder and the Sieves - someone moving . |
| 3 | ‘ These include four species of cobra but I have only seen a cobra twice , ’ he said . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And a nice clean straight like you , you know , young , only seen a needle down the doctor 's — well . |
| 6 | He had , quote , rarely seen a case so well managed as in this case , unquote . |
| 7 | Having rarely seen a doctor before , he needed one three times in a week . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | er , we 've already seen a press release which was put out as prompt step , what was your own view about what should be done after the Daily Telegraph article and it 's comments about ? |
| 11 | We have already seen a form of this in the accompaniment to Webern 's song in Op. 23 quoted above ( Example 134 ) . |
| 12 | We have already seen a number of examples of this . |
| 13 | A friend who has just seen a Don Ameche movie informs the local doctor of the plot : ‘ He worked in his basement discovering things . |
| 14 | In the foyer he paused to look at the posters , and learned that he had just seen a comedy called Pull The Other One ! |
| 15 | The blacks had just seen a film , ‘ Mississippi Burning ’ , in which Klansmen beat a black child to death . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And I 'd just seen a colleague come and go in less than three months … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He has just seen a prospectus in which the Government is offering for sale , shares in British Rail . |
| 20 | He had once seen a naturalist on the television who seemed to him to be an analogue of himself . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Ell had once seen a vidfilm where that had been used for an escape bid . |
| 23 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 24 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | No human eye had ever seen a hound like this one . |
| 27 | I do not think that anyone has ever seen a state wither away quite as fast as the Soviet state has in recent weeks . |
| 28 | In no other household had she ever seen a slop basin , and she hated to see an eccentricity erected into a symbol of the traditionally correct . |
| 29 | I really do n't know , I ca n't say as er er as I ever , ever seen a unit in , in this area at all . |
| 30 | ‘ Have you ever seen a calf born ? ’ |