Example sentences of "[adv] have seen a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that she was n't old enough — she was well old enough to have seen a family through university . |
| 2 | We are one of the few companies in the pet food industry not to have seen a decline in sales during this period as wholesalers and retailers reduce stocks to compensate for the high interest rates . |
| 3 | It 's likely that most of them wo n't ever have seen a microlight . |
| 4 | It 's likely that most of them wo n't ever have seen a microlight . |
| 5 | Over and again eye-witnesses at Verdun testify to the curious sensation of having been in the line twice , three times , without ever having seen an enemy infantryman . |
| 6 | now some of you will also have seen a form being circulated , asking you to agree that the recordings that are being made of the discussions , can be used as part of a research project . |
| 7 | I was n't too impressed with this — I 'd rather have seen a film — but Andy thought it was all right , so I did too . |
| 8 | Anyone who has travelled the country lanes around Holt , near Wrexham , may well have seen a tractor working that they could n't quite identify . |
| 9 | The er the honourable gentleman might well have seen a copy of the er the provisional report which has been prepared but that provisional report is er the same basis as the report er which was presented to er Westminster city council er and then we were n't talking er a difficulty of er two million pounds created , created as a direct result of government under funding of the police authority there , we were talking about the expropriation of millions of pounds to line the pockets and to further the political interests of his party and I did notice the honourable gentleman er vociferous in his condemnation of Westminster city council or any of the other tory controlled city councils . |
| 10 | It grew to its current size by selling mainframes in the 1960s and 1970s but since then has seen a decline in this business . |
| 11 | No one else has seen a word . |
| 12 | Fanny Burney said to Johnson that Shakespeare ‘ could never have seen a Caliban ’ , and Johnson told her that having seen a man Shakespeare knew how to vary one ; ‘ A man who would draw a monstrous cow , must first know what a cow commonly is ; or how can he tell that to give her an ass 's head or an elephant 's tusk will make her monstrous ? ’ |
| 13 | BRITAIN 'S No.2 tennis player of 1992 , Andrew Castle , is making a post-Wimbledon trip to Liverpool to coach the finer points of the game to novices who may never have seen a racket . |
| 14 | Wolfram may never have seen a Muslim ; but he preaches , with outspoken conviction , the common humanity , the common place in God 's purpose , of Christian and heathen — ‘ spare God 's handiwork ’ . |
| 15 | Many former refugee children report never having seen a Bloomsbury House representative . |
| 16 | Within about 10 days she knew that when the phone rang at night it would be Tony , despite never having seen a phone before . |
| 17 | And they would nod , and look closely , never having seen a duiker — even a common one before . |
| 18 | The fourth and fifth editions followed in 1741 and 1747 , although Thomas Martyn confessed never to have seen a copy of the latter . |