Example sentences of "have [adv] see a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AEA has not seen a copy and does not expect to do so . |
| 2 | Absence of such deposits in the late 1980s has not seen a decline in Eurocurrency . |
| 3 | A friend who has just seen a Don Ameche movie informs the local doctor of the plot : ‘ He worked in his basement discovering things . |
| 4 | He has just seen a prospectus in which the Government is offering for sale , shares in British Rail . |
| 5 | I do not think that anyone has ever seen a state wither away quite as fast as the Soviet state has in recent weeks . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Apparently even the Prime Minister has now seen a copy . |
| 8 | ‘ The man says he has n't seen a wallet . ’ |
| 9 | He has n't seen a lot of Deborah and Sarah |
| 10 | And because he has never seen a smile , he has never learned to give one . |
| 11 | They must introduce an unfamiliar subject to an audience which has never seen a watercolour before , and also provide new information of permanent value . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Most likely a first-time father has never seen a person in such pain and it 's also the person he loves most . |
| 14 | Claire has never seen a man in a leopardskin jockstrap before . |
| 15 | And I 'd just seen a colleague come and go in less than three months … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I do n't think he 'd ever seen a woman shop that fast ! ’ |
| 18 | I 'd also seen a probation person . |
| 19 | She 'd never seen a boy so thin and pale-looking . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Anyone would think you 'd never seen a chocolate before ! |
| 22 | He also agreed he 'd never seen a skull fracture caused by a blow to the nose . |
| 23 | I 'd never seen a weapon like that before — only military rifles . |
| 24 | Anyone would think he 'd never seen a Kobold before . |
| 25 | Having rarely seen a doctor before , he needed one three times in a week . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At Southwark in 1705 , the women took exception to the candidacy of a local Tory JP , a bachelor and renowned misogynist , who had once said " that he had rather see a Sow and Pigs , than a Woman and her Children " . |
| 28 | I had only seen a wall there before , and now my heart leapt when I saw , through the Bride and the Bachelors , through the Milky Way and the Chariot and the Grinder and the Sieves - someone moving . |
| 29 | Mr Luck said that the Mail on Sunday 's critic had only seen a rehearsal for the play . |
| 30 | Likewise in ( 36 ) saw evokes not mere visual perception but rather an inference which the speaker has drawn about the character of the people in question on the basis of what he has been able to observe of their behaviour or even of their appearance , and so could be said by someone who had only seen a photograph of them . |