Example sentences of "have [adv] seen [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Their need for live practice has since seen them support The Paris Angels and Northside , though they admit they 'd be better or suited to a dance crowd .
2 He has only seen one defeat at the ground .
3 I can guarantee that Wolstenholme has not seen anything like it before .
4 ‘ No one has ever seen anything like that before , ’ Dr Saral said .
5 Olsen has belief in frank , and has also seen him play U21 successfully .
6 As well as protecting domestic firms ' market share , the obvious motivation for the Polish government legislation would appear to be its desire to induce Western firms to invest in the local high-tech industry , a policy that has also seen it pursue interventionist policies in the fields of telecommunications and electronic components — all areas for which Poland was earmarked as a specialist under mechanisms instigated by the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s .
7 The village of Little Coxwell in Oxfordshire has never seen anything like it .
8 It was only towards herself that she 'd ever seen him act meanly .
9 At the US Open at Shinnecock Hills he played the best I 'd ever seen him play — probably even better than he was going to in the British Open .
10 That was a bit embarrassing — I 'd never seen him blush before — so I decided to have a joke .
11 Staring up at him , her stomach in knots , she thought she 'd never seen him look so frighteningly distant and patrician …
12 I was petrified ; I 'd never seen him like this .
13 I 'd never seen him like that .
14 ’ They brought the nurse round because they 'd never seen me like this before .
15 I 'd never seen anything like it before .
16 I 'd never seen anything like it .
17 I 'd never seen anything like it . ’
18 I 'd never seen anything like it .
19 ‘ I could n't believe it — I 'd never seen anything like it before , ’ he said .
20 she 'd never seen anything like it , but I think we had quite a lot of new furniture did n't we ?
21 She 'd never seen anything like it in other people 's houses , or in shops — not even antique shops .
22 It did n't seem right , yet , looking at his face you 'd , she 'd thought he could have come home , but when you lifted the bloody sheets and then she 'd never seen anything like it , and then on the Monday morning , I stayed with him Sunday night and he were on morphine fusions and then on the Monday morning I woke up and mum had gone , when I looked at dad I thought to myself then I thought oh boy you ai n't gon na go now mum nipped home for a bath they said she could and it 'll be alright and they said
23 It was a perfectly appropriate action , but she 'd never seen anyone do it before as a gesture of relief after social effort .
24 She 'd never seen anyone move as fast as he did when he put poor old Dan Pearson on his back .
25 Many players said they 'd never seen anyone suffer so much pain .
26 I 've only seen him kiss your woman , that was what three and a half months ago .
27 She had not seen him arrive at her home , since she had not known who he was when they had encountered each other in the garden — but she had seen him leave .
28 I had not seen him smoke before , and did not know he did .
29 She had no excuse for going into his part of the house and she had not seen him near the servants ’ quarters since that first afternoon .
30 He put his hands on her shoulders and kissed her , then held both her hands and smiled down at her as I had not seen him smile since I mentioned her name that night in the subway .
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