Example sentences of "seen a [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life .
2 There was no tension in him : when he was tense there was a rigidity in his neck muscles , a rigidity I 'd watched from the depths of the crowd during the brief day of his trial and seen a few times since , as at Nottingham .
3 Fleischmann and Pons were seeing 25 per cent unaccounted-for heat sometimes and had not yet more than the hope of proving that there were neutrons proving fusion ; Jones claimed to have seen a few neutrons at levels which , while interesting for science and understanding aspects of the Earth , bore no large scale practical benefits — what use is a billionth of a watt ?
4 She must have seen a few sights in her time . ’
5 One was seen a few miles off Newhaven on 21 September 1936 ; one flew east off Langney Point on 15 October 1948 ; One flew east off Langney Point on 19 November 1950 .
6 The first 10–15 minutes should have seen a few goals in the net for Leeds .
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