Example sentences of "seen [v-ing] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the right , Age addresses her gaze towards Death , thereby distracting her from cutting the Thread of Life joining Eternity to a representation of Clotho , seen resting on a cloud to the upper right corner of the plate . |
| 2 | The tiny fry ( about 1.5mm ) will be seen darting around the container and they can be removed by using a pipette or a teaspoon . |
| 3 | Later she was seen phoning from the office . |
| 4 | Groups of Muslim demonstrators retaliated by attacking the nearby Holiday Inn with small arms and grenades in an effort to dislodge several snipers who could be seen firing from the hotel 's upper floors . |
| 5 | Even as recently as this summer , for old time 's sake , perhaps , one of them was seen hanging round the campsite . |
| 6 | He was seen weeping in the waiting-room at Durham station , and the misery was the giving up of Durham with its epic history , its Bede and Cuthbert , its beauty and its strength , his new friends and his old , the university and the mining communities . |
| 7 | Police helmets could be seen bobbing above the crowd as a small corps of police officers attempted to force their way through to rescue Clasper from the hands of the mob . |
| 8 | The unemployed 18 year-old had turned to prostitution and was seen soliciting in the Chapeltown area of Leeds on July 9 , 1991 . |
| 9 | Central Television came and made an interview/ documentary film for their weekly current affairs programme Central Lobby , during the course of which I was seen driving around the neighbourhood , first preceding and then followed by the camera crew . |
| 10 | Then Frank and Betty are seen driving in the car at a clifftop beauty spot , where they get out and have a picnic . |
| 11 | The other shows three people who were seen walking along the Sharpness bypass that same morning . |
| 12 | Police appealed for the hitchhiker , seen walking towards a slip-road to Tadcaster , to contact them . |
| 13 | Through the whole of the long night that followed , Boldwood 's dark figure could be seen walking over the hills of Weatherbury like a ghost . |
| 14 | He was regularly to be seen walking through the town with bowler hat and rolled umbrella . |
| 15 | At about 1.40pm cars started to appear and people were seen walking up the road . |
| 16 | She was seen walking near the church . |
| 17 | Mr Allsopp was known to suffer from senile dementia and was often seen walking in the area . |
| 18 | They buried the bodies of those who had died on the boat , but had to leave the others where they were for grypesh could be seen prowling on the bank . |
| 19 | ‘ Someone 's been seen prowling round the house . |
| 20 | Twenty four hours after spawning , the eggs will hatch , and the minute fry can be seen wriggling on the bottom of the tank under the spawning mops . |
| 21 | ‘ Your brother was seen passing through the village , apparently on his way here , at nine this morning . ’ |
| 22 | QUOTE : AS ESSEX 'S fielders lumbered around gifting as many runs as they could , Ilott was seen sprinting around the boundary as if disgusted by the whole charade . |
| 23 | For all their efforts to uncover trends that would serve to unify the history of life on earth , the vast majority were unwilling to explain the trends as the result of natural processes that could be seen operating in the world today . |
| 24 | ‘ On that bloody Russian rust bucket over there , ’ He waved his hand towards the ship 's superstructure which could be seen towering over the dock offices . |
| 25 | In fact there is a direct continuation inland for several miles of the algal mat that can be seen forming on the beach at the present day . |
| 26 | He was occasionally to be seen wandering through the house in his cream linen jacket , college tie — Gonville and Caius , you were meant to know — and flat cap ( in our house a flat cap would have been common ; here it was posh and probably indicated that you used to go beagling ) . |
| 27 | Al Jourgensen is seen wandering around the hotel foyer hugging a wooden duck , used to frighten off local wildlife . |
| 28 | describing Doll Collan here , a whore who is seen wandering around the stage most of the time , she is the most rare scholar and has gone mad with studying Brampton 's works . |
| 29 | One explained : ‘ I have to be careful about what I say publicly because it is just not acceptable to be seen adding to the depression . ’ |
| 30 | When ivy is seen growing throughout the crown of a dying tree it has rarely been responsible for the tree 's decline but has taken advantage of the crown which now lets through enough light for the ivy to grow away . |