Example sentences of "[verb] seen [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They endorsed a culture of learning , and the intervening century has seen a knowledge expolosion . |
| 2 | ‘ Coun Richmond has seen a shopping trolley and complained but that trolley wo n't have been there more than a week , yet when his party were running the council there were ducks nesting in trolleys , ’ said Coun Young . |
| 3 | No one has seen a mountain goat killed in this way , but in Europe , golden eagles regularly knock chamois from cliff ledges in order to feed on their carcasses . |
| 4 | I should like to see the new Techniquest look out across a natural estuary that has seen the tide rise and fall for a million years . |
| 5 | Clinton 's long-time Arkansas-based aide Betsey Wright has seen the alliance work for a dozen years . |
| 6 | FILM director Woody Allen has seen the video tape his former lover Mia Farrow made of his daughter claiming he abused her . |
| 7 | H. On the fish docks at Hull a retired trawler skipper , Mr Grant , tells how he has seen the port change in his lifetime . |
| 8 | The acquirer should refuse finally to settle the terms of the warranties until it has seen the disclosure letter and disclosure material . |
| 9 | 1992 has seen the project list rise to number 60 and the 12 new projects have been varied and interesting . |
| 10 | One of us ( the teacher in role ? ) has seen the reward poster … |
| 11 | Cardiff fumbled to where he 'd seen a light switch , began to reach for it … and then stopped . |
| 12 | She 'd firmly resisted her mother 's oft-repeated efforts to tempt her with the power-packed vegetable which she 'd seen the singing sailor-man so often greedily guzzle straight from the can . |
| 13 | His eyes looked across to Morse 's : ‘ And he said he 'd seen the Torbay Express at Didcot , did n't he ? |
| 14 | I could hardly remember having muffins before , although I 'd seen the muffin man in his white apron , a towel over his arm and a tray of muffins every Sunday afternoon . |
| 15 | HALF WAY through the play you will have seen a walking table , several fast opening doors , the rapid interchanging of numerous couples , and a hotel foyer that is busier than Piccadilly Circus and has more familiar faces than your family tree . |
| 16 | HALFWAY through the play you will have seen a walking table , several fast opening doors , the rapid interchanging of numerous couples , and a hotel foyer that is busier than Piccadilly Circus and has more familiar faces than your family tree . |
| 17 | HALF WAY through the play you will have seen a walking table , several fast opening doors , the rapid interchanging of numerous couples , and a hotel foyer that is busier than Piccadilly Circus and has more familiar faces than your family tree . |
| 18 | You should have seen the way Angy kept it … like a new pin . |
| 19 | In a final hearing it will also have seen the guardian ad litem 's report . |
| 20 | but you must have seen the metal nut in the front ! |
| 21 | Sir you 'll have seen the County Planning Officer 's own report on these matters and you 'll have seen exactly the same comments which I 've made contained in that report . |
| 22 | M I five operates it in Northern Ireland and has got this whole series you may well have seen the television programme recently about these people who work undercover and who work for the intelligence and they they work themselves into the I R A and become members and then they feed the information back to British it 's been very successful and a couple of insiders is risky and we eventually when they are discovered who these people are , they have to be given new identities , plastic surgery and the works . |
| 23 | Trapped and mad as the birds , she 'd have seen the horse chestnut and its thick green kaleidoscope of leaves from her barred window . |
| 24 | Dante would appear to have seen a striking clock at least fifteen years before the Visconti clock of 1335 was installed ; he may have seen the iron clock placed in the campanile of the church of Sant' Eustorgio in Milan in 1309 — the first Italian public clock of which we have knowledge . |
| 25 | Is he aware that there has been at least one case in which , having seen a name badge , a claimant looked in the phone book and traced the Benefits Agency employee to his home . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | having seen the word fork previously |
| 28 | Interlocking would have prevented the signalman putting the signals for the express at ‘ CLEAR ’ yet it is strange that although both footplatemen on the express admitted not having seen the home signal on the approach to Charfield both men were equally emphatic that they had seen the proceeding distant signal and they said it was showing a green light and in the clear position . |
| 29 | Having seen the loan situation from both sides of the fence it is essential that a few rules are followed to keep the arrangement sweet . |
| 30 | I 'd have loved to have seen a database import facility in the software . |