Example sentences of "[v-ing] seen [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He managed this by the spring of 1989 , though the registrar , Claude Brisset , is ‘ 99.9% sure ’ of having seen no further application . |
| 2 | An hour later he was in Chesney , having seen no animate thing but two bumble bees and a rook . |
| 3 | Officers went to Doncaster to interview a lorry driver after he reported having seen a young girl whose appearance was similar to Moira 's , in the company of two other lorry drivers the day after the Lanarkshire schoolgirl disappeared . |
| 4 | His division , having seen a great deal of dogged fighting on and around Ruweisat before the Alamein offensive , had been lightly engaged in the great action itself , though of course , their guns took part in the famous opening barrage . |
| 5 | This should be translated : I personally , off the top of my head sitting in my study , never having visited the Arctic , never having seen a polar bear in the wild , and having been educated in classical literature and theology , have not so far managed to think of a reason why polar bears might benefit from being white . |
| 6 | The boy now gives up his Oedipal wishes because he would rather keep his penis , and he takes the castration threat seriously , having seen a castrated person . |
| 7 | Well having seen a little bit erm was on the other day and I I mean I I must admit I touch shut up you ! |
| 8 | ‘ But you see , since I spoke to her , we have had another witness 's account of having seen a yellow Datsun in the Goring area . |
| 9 | At the Snack Shack , chef Kevin Polson , 24 , admits to having seen a fair bit of violence , ranging from someone pulling a gun on him to rugby fans forming a scrum in his shop and going through the glass counter . |
| 10 | I 'd heard tales about some people having seen an old man down there but not for a long while , he would n't hurt anyone so your lad need n't be scared of him . ’ |
| 11 | She managed to escape to the kitchen on the pretext of having seen an old friend heading in that direction . |
| 12 | Having seen the general place of anthropological material in Marx and Engels 's writing , we can now look in a little more detail at particular works and their contents . |
| 13 | Ideally owners are looking for a snapshot or portrait model but the problem is that the modeller has to work without having seen the live model . |
| 14 | ‘ Fish to fry , ’ she joined with him , and rolled her eyes , having seen the awful pun — typical of Dad — coming just in the nick of time . |
| 15 | It is impossible after having seen the finest lady in the world not to wish to see her again . |
| 16 | I suggested to Ben that he might produce Grimes and Ben , having seen The Bartered Bride and , I think , enjoyed it , agreed . |
| 17 | Having seen the full extent of your naked charms , fair play decrees I reveal my own . ’ |
| 18 | Dealers said both institutional fund managers and private client investors — having seen the latest opinion poll results pointing a much closer finish to the election than previously expected — decided that the potential gains following a surprise Tory victory this morning actually outweighed the risks associated with the formation of a Labour government . |
| 19 | Having talked to James Jonah following his visit and having seen the national reconciliation plan , I am prepared to consider what is necessary . |
| 20 | Earlier generations had already noticed the odd consequences which followed from Aristotle 's having seen the human condition as unquestionably that of an Athenian gentleman , and Kant 's having seen it as that of a Prussian bourgeois . |
| 21 | Having seen the reassured mother smilingly on her way , Lindsey switched off the computer and set about clearing her desk . |
| 22 | I was on holiday when the four-hour , much-acclaimed version of La Belle Noiseuse was released , and having seen the two-hour version , La Belle Noiseuse : Divertimento ( 15 ) , I 'm rather grateful . |