Example sentences of "[Wh pn] has seen the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday they issued a new appeal for information from anyone who has seen the garment . |
| 2 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |
| 3 | The words are from John Coleman , ICI Fibres ' commercial director , who has seen the Company fight back to success . |
| 4 | Everyone who has seen the Vauxhall commercials featuring Layla will be familiar with the playing of Clem Clempson . |
| 5 | ‘ With a lot of will we could still be building ships there , ’ said 57-year-old Hughie , who has seen the Whitby shipbuilding industry decline so much that there are now just two people making traditional Yorkshire cobles . |
| 6 | A lawyer who has seen the writ said last night : ‘ It is a typical dispute between two ex-business partners . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It is a typical dispute between two former business partners , ’ said a lawyer who has seen the writ . |
| 8 | His face was old and young , sardonic and knowing , amused and handsome ; the face of a man who has seen the world 's wickedness and knows how to match it with his own . |
| 9 | Any fishkeeper who has seen the fry 's response to the flicking of the black pelvic fins of their mother will have no doubt that communication is taking place . |
| 10 | NOBODY who has seen the news on television of late can have remained unmoved by the harrowing pictures of the starvation that is afflicting parts of Africa , especially Ethiopia . |
| 11 | There must be someone who has seen the kings and will tell me which way to go . ’ |
| 12 | I have not met the one in possession of my estate , and maybe never will , but I like to think of him as a kindly , white-haired old gentleman with a twinkle in his eye and a bag of humbugs for passing children , a man who has seen the troubles of the world but who remains untainted . |