Example sentences of "see a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seen a lot of shit going on but I think they were impressed with home we coped with it all , ’ enthuses PD to the eager nods of Paul . |
| 2 | Well we 've already talked briefly and we 've seen a video about Gain Multimedia and how that might enable us to address application requirements in a different way . |
| 3 | We will continue to increase the Special Constabulary , which has seen a rise in recruitment this year of 10 per cent . |
| 4 | She had said , her eyes glittering with simulated enthusiasm , that she could hardly wait to get to her cottage , and Betty had said wistfully that it seemed like years since she had seen a blade of grass ( which was silly in itself , because of what else were the lawns of Hyde Park composed ? ) ; so Lydia , unhinged with the shock of bereavement , and further undone by wine , had said she could come too . |
| 5 | Thus we could not claim that an adult must have seen a speck of dust at a range of more than a foot or so , whereas birds could be said to see a small insect at 400 metres . |
| 6 | In his second letter he wrote , ‘ I have never seen a cradle without thinking of a grave ; the sight of a naked woman makes me imagine her skeleton . ’ |
| 7 | If you have seen a mixture of iron and sulphur and the lumps of sulphur did n't have a shiny polished surfaces that belong to iron and you ca n't make a mirror out of non-metal . |
| 8 | Both Sotheby 's and the lawyers for Lord Northampton have assured us that up till now they have not seen a shred of proof . |
| 9 | The warrior Wottolen protested in vain to Looking Glass that he had seen a vision of disaster at this place . |
| 10 | The consequence of that is that we 've seen a continuation of road-building schemes which have caused considerable damage to the countryside , devastated communities and have no real hope of soaking up the so-called demand for new roads . |
| 11 | Have you ever seen a person with cancer of the lung , cancer of the stomach ? |
| 12 | At Barclays de Zoete Wedd , whose report on the sector is due out this week , analyst Jane Anscombe points out that there are currently some worries on the advertising revenue front , and that some television people have seen a bit of pressure . |
| 13 | Compared to previous years 1993 has seen a flurry of activity , with a medley of reports and debates on issues such as the economic impacts of hosting international facilities , returns on research and development spending , and various reviews of government expenditure , including the funding of the Government 's own research facilities ( see related item on Warren Spring , p4 ) . |
| 14 | Over his shoulder I 'd seen a pair of beat coppers walking by . |
| 15 | The past 10 years have seen a revival in interest . |
| 16 | She had met and fallen in love with Peter Shand Kydd , a wallpaper millionaire , seen a chance of happiness , and taken it . |
| 17 | When I had first arrived I had seen a couple of press people milling around , but now there seemed to be a whole platoon of them , cameras at the ready . |
| 18 | I 'd seen a couple of caesarian sections , but I 'd never done one or been shown how . |
| 19 | ACES HIGH at North Weald have seen a burst of activity with ex-Swiss Air Force Vampires , having handled four aircraft in six weeks . |
| 20 | As Charles stood in his doorway and looked around , he must have seen a bustle of activity and a variety of dwellings only possible before the days of clinical town planning . |
| 21 | The economic recession during which this book has been written has seen a reduction in merger mania but one can almost guarantee that this will be a temporary blip in the inexorable progress towards higher and higher profits . |
| 22 | Not that she was n't old enough — she was well old enough to have seen a family through university . |
| 23 | my wife says she 's seen a programme on telly . |
| 24 | He had also been talking for ages to Broadman , and Ymor had seen a piece of paper change hands . |
| 25 | ‘ Better image ’ — Increased police presence in Darlington market place has seen a decrease in crime . |
| 26 | Just then one of the young men said , ‘ Señor Felipe has seen a lot of life , señorita . |
| 27 | Since the former All Blacks ' captain has seen a lot of Back , and still knows the New Zealand scene so well , that opinion , voiced sincerely , should surely not be lightly dismissed . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've seen a lot of horse races but that does n't make me a jockey , does it ? ’ |
| 29 | They have seen a lot of world now — Rome , London , New York and Paris — and like most girls of their age are not yet discontented with this necessarily tourist oriented relationship with the outside world . |
| 30 | Absence of such deposits in the late 1980s has not seen a decline in Eurocurrency . |