Example sentences of "he have seen a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ This copper said 'e used ter be on the Tunnel beat an' 'e 'd seen a bloke who looked like me knockin' around wiv 'em . |
2 | " For young Gedge to say , " he said quietly , " that he has seen a person watching boys playing rounders hardly makes that person a homosexual . |
3 | He has seen a rise in the numbers of wild species in the area , including butterflies and birds snipe , curlew , green plover , skylark , merlin and kestrel . |
4 | This illustrates another rare story : the seer Polyeidos shut in the tomb with Minos 's dead child Glaukos , and reviving him by means of a leaf with which he has seen a snake revive its mate which he had killed . |
5 | It is not likely that he has seen a pixie for himself . |
6 | If he wept because he saw another world beyond sensible things , that , after all , is called ‘ Water of the Eyes ’ , then he has seen a thing which is a congener and perfecter of prayer , that is the object of prayer and his prayer is in order and even more perfect . |
7 | He 'd seen a bit of that kind of thing going on in the last hospital he was in . |
8 | He 'd seen a film about it and he could remember it very well . |
9 | You 'd have thought he 'd seen a ghost ! — He hopped it , then . |
10 | He 'd seen a kid walking excitedly away from Coffin Corner with a fragment of the Bradshaw cradled in his arms . |
11 | ‘ He told me he 'd seen a UFO himself in 1967 … ’ |
12 | ‘ Streuer was behind us and he thought he 'd seen a gap , but Steve cut across . |
13 | Cardiff fumbled to where he 'd seen a light switch , began to reach for it … and then stopped . |
14 | Another neighbour told the inquest he 'd seen a car with two occupants drive away from the farm just before the barn caught fire . |
15 | At his trial in December , Eamonn Melaugh , a prominent Derry republican , testified that he had seen a demonstrator struck in the groin . |
16 | He had seen a friend fifty yards away . |
17 | One day , Jimmy Coutts cycled in to work ( he ‘ lived out ’ with his wife and young family in a village near Cambridge ) , and said that he had seen a telegraph boy delivering a telegram at a house opposite his , where he knew the wife of one of the air crew officers at Oakington lived . |
18 | The warrior Wottolen protested in vain to Looking Glass that he had seen a vision of disaster at this place . |
19 | It was also felt that it was a company which nobody could attack on the grounds of political bias in favour of the project — if anything , thought Walsh , the other way round , after he had seen a portrait of Margaret Thatcher prominently displayed in its Ealing headquarters . |
20 | The last evidence of the day came from a man called Povey , a coalman , who said that between 5.05 and 5.25 , he had seen a man who he identified as Drew , drunk as a sack in Broad Street ( adjacent to Cross Street ) . |
21 | The deadening sense of obligation with which Coleridge had returned to Bristol was now swiftly transformed , until , as a ‘ neutral spectator ’ ( perhaps Cottle ) told Thomas De Quincey , ‘ if ever in his life he had seen a man under deep fascination , and what he would have called desperately in love , Coleridge , in relation to Miss F , was that man ’ . |
22 | He had seen a man being chased by two Riotsville hoodlums . |
23 | He also felt rather sick when he recalled how in the ale house he had just left , he had seen a hen roosting on the brim of an uncovered beer tub . |
24 | He had seen a row of black faces staring at him from the platform of one of the Red Sand Towers in the Nore approaches . |
25 | Once he had seen a girl set upon by a gang of other girls on a descending escalator . |
26 | Stephen told them how that morning he had seen a girl out on the moor alone . |
27 | I got the impression that he was frightened , as if he had seen a ghost . |
28 | Gurder was looking as though he had seen a ghost . |
29 | We came to the Tower as Ralph 's guests for Yuletide , supping as usual at the Golden Mitre in Petty Wales , but when we met Sir Ralph that particular time , he looked as if he had seen a ghost . |
30 | ‘ Well , three years ago Whitton was disturbed , agitated , as if he had seen a ghost . |