Example sentences of "[verb] been seen [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many a person has been seen hastening into their house on a fine summer 's day by this bit of imitation . |
| 2 | The Def Jam supremo has been seen clubbing around LA with the aged Rolling Stone . |
| 3 | Mr Rowse refused to see Rhoda any more because she 'd been seen talking to Young Catholics Against Witchcraft . |
| 4 | This was the time when a younger Jason Lunn and Pete Dossett would have been seen skating at Farnborough . |
| 5 | ‘ I hear you have been seen going into the House of Oliver , ’ she said , her immaculately painted lips tight with fury . |
| 6 | The man , who was wearing a rucksack , is thought to have been seen running along the lane by motorists . ’ |
| 7 | A correspondent of the Federal Government 's News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN ) reported that the Benin flag had been seen flying at places within Nigeria and beyond the recognised border . |
| 8 | It was such a ‘ whisperer ’ who had informed Jack that men answering the brothers ' description had been seen drinking in an alehouse on Winkfield Plain , not five miles from Maidenhead , the day after the robbery . |
| 9 | Counsel 's second argument was that all the evidence presented to the court was that the defendant had been seen engaging in actual violence , but not threatening it , as the section requires , On this submission the Court concluded that there was sufficient evidence in the narrative presented to the jury from which they were entitled to conclude that there was threatening behaviour . |
| 10 | On other occasions , he had been seen walking in the surrounding countryside at the dead of night , carrying sacks full of rocks . |
| 11 | Now that Coleman had been seen working with DEA agents in Cyprus , there was a clear risk that he might also have been identified by one of their Beirut informants as a friend of Tony Asmar 's . |
| 12 | Cars had been seen dodging through the lay-by to avoid red lights , it was said , and the pedestrian refuge between the road and lay-by was not wide enough to stand with a pram . |
| 13 | Bottlenose and hump-backed dolphins have been seen chasing off shark predators and even killing them , but packs of killer whales can encircle and trap a school of dolphins with a curtain of sound , before selecting a few hapless victims . |
| 14 | Lalande wrote of him in 1763 : ‘ Sisson has been several times in prison for failing to pay his workmen [ of whom Jesse Ramsden , q.v. , was one ] ; he starts many things and finishes nothing : he takes his instruments to the pawnbroker , where they have been seen selling for a tenth of their value . |
| 15 | ‘ Someone 's been seen prowling round the house . |