Example sentences of "see a [noun] of [noun] " 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 | By the time the Ashleys bought the twenty-two-room château , it had seen a variety of owners and fortunes , yet although remarkably close to the battlefront in both World Wars , had escaped any major damage . |
| 3 | Not everyone here is committed , but the majority are(I 've also seen a member of staff put his papers in . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Beyond can be seen a mixture of walkers , mounted and dismounted cyclists and even the occasional moped ( Figure 6.29 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Both Sotheby 's and the lawyers for Lord Northampton have assured us that up till now they have not seen a shred of proof . |
| 10 | It is easy to sympathise with a traveller who writes : ‘ I have seen a quantity of things here — churches , palaces , statues , fountains and pictures ; and my brain is at the moment like the portfolio of an architect , or a print-shop , or a common-place book . ’ |
| 11 | The warrior Wottolen protested in vain to Looking Glass that he had seen a vision of disaster at this place . |
| 12 | Born in Brittany , the son of a Jewish tailor and antique dealer , Max Jacob had seen a vision of Christ on the wall of his little room in the Rue Ravignan . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On other pages , she had seen a village of huts set in the lee of a bluff , where mothers — Italian mothers with babies on their laps — were sitting in the sun on chairs , just like at home . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | I saw a pair of shoes , if my grey shoes do n't go with this dress , I 've seen a pair of shoes that I like . |
| 18 | Over his shoulder I 'd seen a pair of beat coppers walking by . |
| 19 | Fucking I tell you you 've never seen a pair of hands on this like them . |
| 20 | She had met and fallen in love with Peter Shand Kydd , a wallpaper millionaire , seen a chance of happiness , and taken it . |
| 21 | Dai Hudd said : ‘ We would have much preferred that this initiative happened before the downturn in defence markets , which has seen a haemorrhage of jobs from the North-West . |
| 22 | The TV is on , the sound is low , it 's some not-half-cheeky detective rubbish starring George Segal that I 've seen a couple of times before , just the way I like it . |
| 23 | Are we supposed to be using the pre-course questionnaires that I 've seen a couple of times , on all course ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I 'd seen a couple of caesarian sections , but I 'd never done one or been shown how . |
| 26 | Says Lt Watts , a Northern Ireland veteran : ‘ Before Bosnia I 'd seen a couple of bodies in road accidents but that was just it . |
| 27 | ACES HIGH at North Weald have seen a burst of activity with ex-Swiss Air Force Vampires , having handled four aircraft in six weeks . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Since then we have seen a host of companies freezing their dividends , with a much smaller proportion cutting them , and then generally under duress . |
| 30 | Appearing during a period that has seen a stream of reassessments of the discovery and development of penicillin , Gordon 's work is his fictional version of the same episode — together with some real events and characters . |