Example sentences of "see a [noun] [prep] " 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 | Well we 've already talked briefly and we 've seen a video about Gain Multimedia and how that might enable us to address application requirements in a different way . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never seen a sky like that in my life before , ’ Susan said softly , wonder in her voice . |
| 4 | Now I 've never seen a provision like that put forward for legislation before . |
| 5 | The nineteenth century had seen a variety of ad hoc political bodies . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We will continue to increase the Special Constabulary , which has seen a rise in recruitment this year of 10 per cent . |
| 8 | Full-time employed workers in Spain have seen a rise in their living standards . |
| 9 | He has seen a rise in the numbers of wild species in the area , including butterflies and birds snipe , curlew , green plover , skylark , merlin and kestrel . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The deadening sense of obligation with which Coleridge had returned to Bristol was now swiftly transformed , until , as a ‘ neutral spectator ’ ( perhaps Cottle ) told Thomas De Quincey , ‘ if ever in his life he had seen a man under deep fascination , and what he would have called desperately in love , Coleridge , in relation to Miss F , was that man ’ . |
| 12 | Have n't seen a man for a week . ’ |
| 13 | Perhaps you 've seen a man with large plates in his hair , or a brusie on his arm . |
| 14 | They radioed that , at the Bunbeg bus turn-about and taxi stand on the Glen Road , they had seen a man with a revolver accompanied by two other men , one of whom was looking at the nearby mountain through binoculars . |
| 15 | As she got closer to them Julia thought that she had never seen a man with such brilliant dark eyes or so saturnine and yet handsome a face . |
| 16 | In the other quotation ( 2.21.6 ) he appears to have taken the Gorgon Medusa killed by Perseus as a member of a wild Libyan race : " he ( Procles ) had seen a man from this race brought to Rome " . |
| 17 | A woman had also seen a man in a boat sailing away from the beach . |
| 18 | Claire has never seen a man in a leopardskin jockstrap before . |
| 19 | So the 1980s has seen a betrayal of primary health care at the very same time as more and more lip-service has been paid to the idea . |
| 20 | I have never met or even seen a member of the Royal Family . |
| 21 | Not everyone here is committed , but the majority are(I 've also seen a member of staff put his papers in . |
| 22 | The big fish had been making for deep water all afternoon and Trent had n't seen a bird for the past hour . |
| 23 | No human eye had ever seen a hound like this one . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We agree with MacGowan and Reeves that the half life may be inaccurate if it is calculated from only two values ; but perhaps that is why they have never seen a patient with normal renal function in whom the half life is as long as 7.6 hours , since in clinical practice two measurements are all one has to go on . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In his second letter he wrote , ‘ I have never seen a cradle without thinking of a grave ; the sight of a naked woman makes me imagine her skeleton . ’ |
| 29 | Like all other areas of Great Britain which are involved in agriculture , Scotland has seen a slump of 10 per cent . |
| 30 | Beyond can be seen a mixture of walkers , mounted and dismounted cyclists and even the occasional moped ( Figure 6.29 ) . |