Example sentences of "[noun prp] had seen [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked him why this change of heart and he said that it was because Harold Wilson had seen fit to put her in the Lords . |
| 2 | The fact that Harry Martin had seen fit to go this far not only alarmed her but also made her realise that she must be on to something . |
| 3 | Redpath had seen violent death in many forms , and to some extent the technical problems it involved clouded the human side of it . |
| 4 | It was unfortunate that Aunt Bertha had seen fit to phone so soon . |
| 5 | From start to finish it is a bitter refutation of whatever advice Theo had seen fit to give him . |
| 6 | Now Cranston had seen decapitated heads , be they of murdered taverner or some lord executed on Tower Hill , but this was truly gruesome ; it was not so much the half-closed eyes and still blood-dripping neck but the mouth forced open and , thrust inside , the mangled remains of the dead merchant 's genitals . |
| 7 | Both San Francisco and New York had seen similar coalitions of inner-city white working-class groups in this scenario . |
| 8 | Cardiff had seen similar identification only four times in his professional life . |
| 9 | Sally-Anne had seen drunken and half-drunken men before in Washington and London . |
| 10 | Cllr Brooks was unavailable for comment but Elizabeth Leitch , Monklands housing convener , said it was regrettable that Cllr Murphy had seen fit to make allegations to the press instead of to the appropriate authorities . |
| 11 | But George Dunbar , whose renegade 's knowledge of his countrymen and their terrain King Henry had seen fit to use where it could be most effective , on the Scottish march from which he derived his title , had counselled the waiting game , and Northumberland had come down upon his side . |
| 12 | The appointment of Boulares was considered to reflect the current prominence in Tunisian foreign policy of the Gulf crisis [ see pp. 37631-41 ] and Arab relations , since Khelil had seen foreign debt and relations with creditor countries as his main preoccupation . |
| 13 | Alexei was amazed that Jotan had seen fit to risk the lives of both his wife and daughter on an escapade such as this , and he wondered if either of them had been warned about what was to happen . |