Example sentences of "[adv] seen [art] [noun] [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | And a nice clean straight like you , you know , young , only seen a needle down the doctor 's — well . |
| 4 | Well I 've only seen the back of it . |
| 5 | But through the clogging pain in her breast , she could only seen the gaze of Lady Usk — dark and knowing . |
| 6 | Since the war had begun , she 'd only seen the enemy on newsreels . |
| 7 | The past two years have only seen the start of the process , and in terms of M4 the process has not been started at all . |
| 8 | gone to their GP 's , and often have been given some sort of medicine for their depression but have n't had the counselling side of things dealt with and they 've just been given re-prescriptions , not necessarily seen every time for a re-prescription . |
| 9 | ‘ You have all seen the report from Captain Myeloski . ’ |
| 10 | They have all seen the game on TV , they know that if they get to the table they can build big breaks and if you make one mistake they go for your jugular . |
| 11 | The Department had long seen the field as part of Ninian for taxation purposes until this break-through . |
| 12 | This , despite the fact that he had not long seen the evidence of its use with his own eyes , in the shape of the two sprawled corpses at the gas station . |
| 13 | Big companies have long seen the advantages of training by computer but have thought technology immature . |
| 14 | The Dutch administration had long seen the need for consular representation in Jedda , the port of Mecca , where the security , health and transport of large numbers of Indonesian pilgrims could be supervised by the Batavian authorities . |
| 15 | Netwise is eager to bolster the Unix side of its business , but admits ‘ NobleNet has obviously seen the light with RPC technology that the rest of us did n't … they 're going to be tough to beat ’ . |
| 16 | For example , consider a person who bought a house for £80,000 in 1988 , with a mortgage of £75,000 , who has since seen the price of that property fall to £65,000 . |
| 17 | It is also the most widely used general classification scheme on the Continent of Europe , and this in an environment where libraries have not generally seen the virtue of published classification schemes , preferring to use their own private schemes . |
| 18 | She had soon seen the potential of his drab and neglected establishment , and now they were married the business was doing very well . |
| 19 | Sightless , she smiled thinly and inhumanly ; she who had not seen a smile with which to compare since her girlhood , nor a mirror either . |
| 20 | THERE are very few middle-aged men who have not seen a vision of youthful loveliness and longed to possess it . |
| 21 | Both Sotheby 's and the lawyers for Lord Northampton have assured us that up till now they have not seen a shred of proof . |
| 22 | I 've not seen a lot of it actually , so far . |
| 23 | Absence of such deposits in the late 1980s has not seen a decline in Eurocurrency . |
| 24 | Now how many people have not seen a list of the |
| 25 | Ten out of 23 ( 43 per cent ) children and adolescents had not seen a dentist since their last review . |
| 26 | She had not seen the building for three years and the projecting , metal construction offended her as impetigo would , sprouting from the face of a beautiful woman . |
| 27 | ‘ I am convinced that if the people of Cheltenham had been blind and not seen the colour of John Taylor 's skin he would have been elected , ’ said Mr Nick Leach , secretary of a Cheltenham Tory ward . |
| 28 | He hardly knew a thing about the world and had not seen the sun for twenty-five years . |
| 29 | He had not seen the correspondence about the lines through Denbigh , as his men no longer worked over , nor signed the road to Denbigh . |
| 30 | Although some US rugby enthusiasts were able to tap into these satellite transmissions to view the matches live , the majority have not seen the heroics of the best players in their sport . |