Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] see a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A friend who has just seen a Don Ameche movie informs the local doctor of the plot : ‘ He worked in his basement discovering things . |
| 2 | He has just seen a prospectus in which the Government is offering for sale , shares in British Rail . |
| 3 | I do not think that anyone has ever seen a state wither away quite as fast as the Soviet state has in recent weeks . |
| 4 | 1 How many ghost stories can you think of ? 2 Do you believe in ghosts ? 3 Do you know anybody who has ever seen a ghost ? 4 Think of one ghost story that you can remember — or make one up . |
| 5 | The year has also seen an advance by the Bar 's Video Conferencing Studio in the range of work undertaken . |
| 6 | Apparently even the Prime Minister has now seen a copy . |
| 7 | The Home Office has reportedly seen an increase of more than 40 per cent in the number of young people sentenced to young offender institutions . |
| 8 | He wondered whether there had been others , also tucked out of sight , and he tried again to see a connection between the recipients he knew of . |
| 9 | And because he has never seen a smile , he has never learned to give one . |
| 10 | They must introduce an unfamiliar subject to an audience which has never seen a watercolour before , and also provide new information of permanent value . |
| 11 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |
| 12 | Most likely a first-time father has never seen a person in such pain and it 's also the person he loves most . |
| 13 | Claire has never seen a man in a leopardskin jockstrap before . |
| 14 | And I 'd just seen a colleague come and go in less than three months … |
| 15 | I went to see the semi-finals of the Midland Bank Championships in Brighton — the first time I 'd ever seen a tennis match live . |
| 16 | I do n't think he 'd ever seen a woman shop that fast ! ’ |
| 17 | I 'd also seen a probation person . |
| 18 | She 'd never seen a boy so thin and pale-looking . |
| 19 | Angalo had found a pebble that was almost the right shape to attach to a twig with strips torn off his coat ; he 'd never seen a stone axe in his life , but he had a definite feeling that there were useful things that could be done with a stone tied to the end of a stick . |
| 20 | Anyone would think you 'd never seen a chocolate before ! |
| 21 | He also agreed he 'd never seen a skull fracture caused by a blow to the nose . |
| 22 | I 'd never seen a weapon like that before — only military rifles . |
| 23 | Anyone would think he 'd never seen a Kobold before . |
| 24 | He was wearing a disreputable pair of jeans that looked as though they 'd never seen an iron , and a grey shirt , the sleeves rolled back as if it were summer . |
| 25 | And Ive never seen a ball hit from that far out , rise in a straight line ( showing the power behind it ) . |
| 26 | I tricked him , but I had to , I remember once seeing a mosaic , a Roman mosaic . |
| 27 | Having rarely seen a doctor before , he needed one three times in a week . |
| 28 | With his video recorder still running , he dashed outside to see a youth sprinting down Kingston Street in the Corporation Road area . |
| 29 | Having never seen a swing bridge before I wondered how the boats were going to get under it but I was soon to find out . |
| 30 | The doctor wished to remove a lymph gland for examination , to verify HTLV3 , but I refused to allow this despite considerable pressure and went instead to see a homeopath . |