Example sentences of "see a [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Have n't seen a man for a week . ’ |
| 3 | They radioed that , at the Bunbeg bus turn-about and taxi stand on the Glen Road , they had seen a man with a revolver accompanied by two other men , one of whom was looking at the nearby mountain through binoculars . |
| 4 | A woman had also seen a man in a boat sailing away from the beach . |
| 5 | Claire has never seen a man in a leopardskin jockstrap before . |
| 6 | I have never met or even seen a member of the Royal Family . |
| 7 | The big fish had been making for deep water all afternoon and Trent had n't seen a bird for the past hour . |
| 8 | An hour or so ago , she had seen a stone of the right size and shape lying on the edge of a garden , and had put it into her pocket . |
| 9 | But first John Major 's , and now Norman Lamont 's , tenure at the Treasury has seen a resumption of a policy that is inimical to both the industry 's and the Government 's long-term interests . |
| 10 | The '80s have seen a return to a more stable market , with demand and supply in a measure of equilibrium . |
| 11 | I had noticed the name on the map ; it seemed very remote but I had seen a reference to an inn there . |
| 12 | Luke was like someone who 'd seen a vision of the Holy Grail — completely obsessed . ’ |
| 13 | Mr Kinnock arrived in the Tory-held marginal seat of Hyndburn to be greeted by the Labour candidate , Mr Greg Pope , and a local joke at the expense of the former MP , Mr Ken Hargreaves , who courted the headlines last year after claiming to have seen a vision during a visit to the religious shrine at Medugorje in Yugoslavia . |
| 14 | The past 30 years has seen a continuation of the break-up of the old landlord and tenant system . |
| 15 | Like Samuel stated , in a woman suffered strokes , seventy eight percent will survive at least one , have you ever seen a person with a stroke ? |
| 16 | Have you ever seen a person with a stroke ? |
| 17 | Franca had once seen a film of a burial at sea , how the coffin slid with a curious slowness down toward the waves and entered them without a splash . |
| 18 | You may have seen a film of the African tribe , the Masai , running : they run on their toes . |
| 19 | Mr Luck said that the Mail on Sunday 's critic had only seen a rehearsal for the play . |
| 20 | ‘ I have never seen a fracture of the anterior fossa of the skull due to a blow on the nose … |
| 21 | Wait a minute — out of the corner of my eye at Temple Meads Station , when I 'd blinked away the vision of Mum swallowing mud , I 'd seen a sign on the window of the buffet : Vacancies . |
| 22 | It was the first time that Jehan had ever seen a Sechem at a loss for words . |
| 23 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 24 | She had seen a phone in the big hall they called the vestibule . |
| 25 | He had once seen a naturalist on the television who seemed to him to be an analogue of himself . |
| 26 | I 've often seen a cat without a grin , ’ thought Alice , ‘ but never a grin without a cat ! ’ |
| 27 | Once Dot had seen a canary in a bent cage pulled out , black like a little sparrow from the ashes and soot , yet still singing even though its owner was gone . |
| 28 | We have n't set the world alight , but we have seen a selection of the many kinds of birds and animals which choose to make Shetland their home . |
| 29 | With that burden around us we have seen a reduction in the number of full-time officers being appointed by the union and which in turn has without any doubt had a detrimental effect upon the members who we serve . |
| 30 | I mean what you 're looking for is a reduction or what you would have liked to have seen a reduction in the land allocation for employment needs , and yet in the other breath you are saying to North Yorkshire , you should really cater for one hundred percent migration . |