Example sentences of "seen a [noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It says that recent years have seen a transformation in Britain 's manufacturing base , and it condemns those who do not recognise it and continue to run down the achievements of British industry . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | other BES companies , we have seen a school in St John 's Wood , and a company proposing to use investors ' money to breed pedigree mohair producing Angora goats , and to produce an Angora " super goat " through cross-breeding . |
| 5 | I have n't seen a team in Europe that 's a great deal better than England . |
| 6 | ‘ Earlier , I had seen a picture of Farrah in the paper . |
| 7 | Jed had seen a street in Westwood that was called Success Avenue , and he 'd told Mitch about it . |
| 8 | I 've certainly never seen a horse in Dublin . |
| 9 | He has n't seen a lot of Deborah and Sarah |
| 10 | Well seen a jar of Maxwell House |
| 11 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 12 | Dr Gerard fought back , by saying that he had seen a letter from Warburton to the printer , complaining that one half of Scotland 's clergy were fanatics , and the other half were infidels , but Johnson still gainsaid him ; Warburton , he believed , wrote as he spoke — without thinking ; ‘ Sir , the very worst way of being intimate , is by scribbling . ’ |