Example sentences of "have see a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The closing of a station intangibly but significantly diminishes the spiritual life of a country and its people , for it brings down the curtain with devastating finality on a stage which has seen a thousand dramas , comic and tragic , played out and has mirrored the changing moods of the nation , has etched itself into the working lives of some , the emotional lives of others . |
| 2 | He 'd seen a hundred funerals . |
| 3 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
| 4 | I 've been family member for twelve years and must have seen a thousand children , and of those , barely fifty had both their natural mother and father ! |
| 5 | The first 10–15 minutes should have seen a few goals in the net for Leeds . |
| 6 | She must have seen a few sights in her time . ’ |
| 7 | Fleischmann and Pons were seeing 25 per cent unaccounted-for heat sometimes and had not yet more than the hope of proving that there were neutrons proving fusion ; Jones claimed to have seen a few neutrons at levels which , while interesting for science and understanding aspects of the Earth , bore no large scale practical benefits — what use is a billionth of a watt ? |
| 8 | After Tomkins had served the second glass , Robins looked at me almost quizzically , and said , ‘ I 've seen a few doctors come and go in the islands , but you do n't seem to fit into the usual pattern . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm sure it 's in Pauline 's garden because I 've seen a few times . |
| 10 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 11 | He watched the young man 's face , now set in the sort of bored , practised , professional expression Grout had seen a hundred times before . |
| 12 | He had seen a few curtains moving in neighbouring houses . |
| 13 | And he says there was sixty , he says , he says he 's seen a hundred horses standing to get shod on a morning . |