Example sentences of "have seen [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DSC Communications Corp , Dallas has seen off a shareholder suit brought against the company and some of its officers in 1991 over the problems some of the Baby Bells had with the software for the MegaHub Signal Transfer Point : the suit has been dismissed without prejudice and the motion to certify class action status for it has been declared moot . |
| 2 | But when the citizens of the Association of Futures Brokers and Dealers cast their stones into the pot last week and elected the managing director of Amalgamated Metal Trading on to their council with the biggest number of votes , they elevated the nearest that divided body has seen to a populist . |
| 3 | The White House spokeswoman , Dee Dee Myers , said Mr Clinton would ‘ make one of the most important economic statements this country has seen in a decade ’ in his speech to Congress . |
| 4 | Dana had embraced the dancing and singing lessons with fervour , but Claudia , trailing behind her sister , had been bored to tears by them , and after a time her father had put an end to what he 'd seen as a waste of his money and Claudia 's time . |
| 5 | ‘ Until the blunders it was one of the best games I 'd seen for a while . ’ |
| 6 | The one reduces theology to the Christian 's ‘ way of looking at things ’ , makes evangelism just an open-ended dialogue and articulates faith in a way which previous generations would have seen as a denial of the faith , in need of an answer itself . |
| 7 | What other advantages may the managers have seen for a car assembly industry near Liverpool ? |
| 8 | George you may have seen in a wine bar , often in the company of younger lawyers ; or at the theatre , with a blonde ; or on the steps of the Garrick , with or without a blonde . |
| 9 | Give me a figure , that you might have seen in an advert , when you 're drooling over BMWs and things , Maseratis . |
| 10 | The police say it was one of the worst attacks that they 've seen on a horse . |
| 11 | Well something else I 've seen at a car boot . |
| 12 | ‘ It was a real old-fashioned adventure and one of the best films I 've seen for a while . ’ |
| 13 | Then he would qualify these certainties at the end , once the client had agreed to buy with something like : " of course , you 'll appreciate that , as with any shares , I can make no absolute guarantees , but this is the best opportunity I 've seen for a while . " |
| 14 | Approaching the crags we 've seen for a couple of days . |
| 15 | " It 's worst stoppage ah 've seen for a bit , " said Mr Bailes . |
| 16 | They tend to they tend to be a bit noisier than the others , but actually they are very constructive , and on Banbury School Governors it 's not the political appointees that erm I 've seen as a problem particularly . |
| 17 | I mean we , we clearly do not have a socialist society even at the end of land reform as we , as we 've seen in a sense we 've created a , a private enterprise system which is based on equalities within capitalism . |
| 18 | We 've seen in a number of areas , the development of regional net environmental networks , which we have been directly involved in helping develop . |
| 19 | After the funeral at Golders Green Crematorium , the entire Williams clan — including cousins neither Pat nor Ken had seen for a quarter of a century — assembled for drinks , ‘ a real old Cockney wake , ’ as Pat put it . |
| 20 | ‘ For me , I was in the place which I had seen on a globe as a girl — where the pin went through it ! |
| 21 | Today 's world was one in which five-pound notes gushed benignly from the walls of banks at the touch of a button , in which people had only to scribble their names and anything they wished for was theirs ; a world in which — as she had seen on a television programme — unimaginable sums of money flew about the globe at the whim of shirt-sleeved young men who sat tapping idly at keyboards . |
| 22 | Other than a girl he had seen at a spinning-wheel and singing a song in the Gaelic at Nairn , this was Johnson 's first true contact with the Scots of the west . |
| 23 | The Polytechnic enclosed a small square garden which the architect had seen as a kind of cloister for scholarly pacing . |
| 24 | It rekindles memories of those old-fashioned Hollywood romances of the Thirties and Forties that I had seen as a child . |
| 25 | Until his family was safe , he had declined to make any formal statement , but now he went with them to the American Embassy and swore out an affidavit about what he had seen as a DIA agent assigned to DEA NARCOG , Nicosia . |
| 26 | He was not someone whom Rigby or her classmates had seen as a pin-up type . |
| 27 | That was important , but much more important for me was the message that crofting , which I had seen as a hang-over , an anachronism , had enduring values I had not previously recognised . |
| 28 | It was also an implicit protest at what many in Co-operation had seen as an exercise which at best fundamentally misconceived the Movement 's nature and aspirations , at worst misused them for the purposes of a political performance . |
| 29 | And as I made my way past those bedrooms , I had seen through a doorway Miss Kenton 's figure , silhouetted against a window , turn and call softly : ‘ Mr Stevens , if you have a moment . ’ |
| 30 | Of course Boy had seen inside a lot of different men 's houses , but this was the first man 's life he had ever watched at such close quarters , the first time he had ever seen a man taking care of himself , the first time he had ever seen another man living day after day after day . |