Example sentences of "seen a [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Beyond can be seen a mixture of walkers , mounted and dismounted cyclists and even the occasional moped ( Figure 6.29 ) . |
| 3 | Perhaps you have n't seen a strike for years . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I teach students who are often illiterate , who do not know how to use a hand-held calculator , who have never seen a film with subtitles or read a classic work of literature , and who can not spell even the name of important people in their field ( for example , psychology majors who spell Freud as Frued ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Are we supposed to be using the pre-course questionnaires that I 've seen a couple of times , on all course ? |
| 10 | Says Lt Watts , a Northern Ireland veteran : ‘ Before Bosnia I 'd seen a couple of bodies in road accidents but that was just it . |
| 11 | Prior to erm Uruguay round negotiations , agriculture was always excluded from the negotiations right , whereas manufactured goods have been in there from the start , and as a result we 've seen a reduction in tariffs right , on manufactured goods that 's not to say that erm , protectionism on manufactured goods has fallen , it has in certain cases but not in all cases . |
| 12 | Since then we have seen a host of companies freezing their dividends , with a much smaller proportion cutting them , and then generally under duress . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The 40th anniversary of the first successful attempt on Chomolungma — the Sherpa name for Everest — has seen a glut of books on the subject . |
| 15 | You may have seen a table of life-events which indicates the relative effects of change on stress level . |
| 16 | But the last three weeks have seen a turn-down in numbers . |
| 17 | I was very upset , even though I had seen a lot of birds die before ; I had really thought this one was going to make it . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've seen a lot of accidents ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Ronnie Moran and Roy Evans have been through a lot and seen a lot of players come and go . |
| 20 | I 've seen a lot of companies like that |
| 21 | I think she must have seen a lot of things at that time which had made her the way she was , seen things in the blackout and in the underground stations . |
| 22 | ‘ I have seen a lot of things in my life , Elizabeth Burrows , but I never thought to see this . |
| 23 | We have seen a lot of prayers answered in this area . |
| 24 | I would n't use the word enemy but we have seen a lot of changes in the relationship . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've seen a lot of dogs and sheep and pigs and things , ’ said Lydia , ‘ and a lot of cakes and carrots and scarlet runner-beans , and millions of people , and I want to go home . ’ |
| 26 | The accident was one of the worst on the A420 which has seen a catalogue of crashes and a safety campaign from residents . |
| 27 | Recent times have seen a catalogue of complaints against the teaching profession ; standards of spelling , arithmetic and reading have come under attack from the government and in the media . |
| 28 | Since the lifting of sanctions the last couple of years has seen a flood of wines onto our shelves from the Cape — which has some of the most beautiful winelands in the world . |
| 29 | He had gone on to a party at a rich woman 's house , he explained , and seen a display of drinks such as he had never seen on earth before . |
| 30 | He had seen a number of figures dressed in blue , patrolling the streets . |