Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] see [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was coming at me like a bullet , head shaking , lips curled back , teeth long and yellow and by far the biggest I 'd ever seen on a rabbit , live or dead . |
| 2 | A number of black children , particularly boys , seem to lose interest in the school 's aims ( unless they are good at games , then they dissociate that from the rest ) in the third year and , from then , become increasingly seen as an anti-culture … probably the most striking manifestation of West Indian pupils , is just that group of large boys , and the sort of threatening physical presence , which you can see consistently around the school . |
| 3 | There before him stood one of the tallest , thinnest men he had ever seen outside a circus . |
| 4 | She wore new black button-up boots and on her head was perched the largest black hat I had ever seen with a black bird on top . |
| 5 | And I have to say that this is the minimum I 've ever seen for a sales person to have to do . |
| 6 | It is n't much like any document I 've ever seen in a Civil Service file before . |
| 7 | What 's the weirdest thing you 've ever seen in an audience when you 've been onstage ? |
| 8 | He realized with a shock that they reminded him of steers he had once seen in a railroad siding back home in Richmond , Virginia , crowded uncomprehendingly in trucks bound for the slaughterhouse . |
| 9 | His mouth turned sullenly down at the corners , like the mouth of a joke mug Melanie had once seen in an antique shop . |
| 10 | I have just seen in a saleroom catalogue a single manuscript leaf from an early fourteenth century Bible , patiently and diligently written by a scribe in Southern France , illuminated , historiated and decorated' in gold , red and blue . |
| 11 | All of his six feet six foot three of smouldering sexuality he 's probably the best looking man you have ever seen with a bo body he looks every inch the top model he once was . |
| 12 | The Fractal Geometry of Nature reminds us that mathematics can surprise us with insights into the world in which we live ; it has the most beautiful graphics 1 have ever seen in a mathematics book . |
| 13 | Hourcade also saw as a second feature of Cubist painting the organization of the whole surface in terms of interpenetrating or interacting planes : ‘ The fascination of the paintings lies not only in the presentation of the main objects represented , but in the dynamism which emerges from the composition , a strange , disturbing dynamism , but one that is perfectly controlled . ’ |
| 14 | The autumn statement contains something that I have never seen in an autumn statement before — a chart designed to show not figures showing what might happen in the economy but estimates of consumer confidence based on Gallup poll evidence . |