Example sentences of "seen [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | There is perhaps no better assurance of the reality of a fundamental drive than when it is seen to flourish in the most difficult and primitive circumstances . |
| 32 | The tracers were seen bouncing off the other breakwater , which by this time was also firing at the aircraft with similar results . |
| 33 | This relatively explicit form can be seen to modulate into the process of association of particular works with particular powerful names : the patron , in effect , as dedicatee . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | ‘ Someone 's been seen prowling round the house . |
| 36 | As he reflected on the brutality of what he had seen done in the name of religion in the Civil War , Taylor asked himself , ‘ If persons be Christians in their lives and Christians in their profession , … why should I hate such persons whom God loves and who love God , because … they have not the same opinion as I have ? ’ |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | ‘ Your brother was seen passing through the village , apparently on his way here , at nine this morning . ’ |
| 39 | These giraffes were first seen positioned against the sky . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | At the top of the list is a European Neutron Source , a successor to the Nuclear Structure Facility at Daresbury that was closed down last month , which many physicists would like to seen built at the Science and Engineering Research Council 's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory . |
| 43 | Coffin was still pondering on the significance of what he had seen written on the piece of paper from Place 's jacket . |
| 44 | ‘ 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 . |
| 45 | In vertebrates , shortly after gastrulation , the brain can be seen forming at the anterior end of the embryo . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | 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 ) . |
| 48 | Al Jourgensen is seen wandering around the hotel foyer hugging a wooden duck , used to frighten off local wildlife . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | 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 . ’ |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | One year a thunderstorm washed out a lot of buttercup petals , so at 8am one Sunday morning , ladies were to be seen heading for the well to make running repairs before the blessing of the well took place in the afternoon . |
| 53 | The boat slipped through shadow and then could be seen heading across the lake , already slightly obscured by the tenuous mist . |
| 54 | This I had seen happen in the lives of others , resulting in the despairing situation of looking on hopelessly at all the work and tender loving care lavished on a place being relentlessly returned to rampaging nature , and unable to muster the physical strength and mental resolve to do anything about it . |
| 55 | At nine o'clock on November 2 , two men were seen clambering over the gates of a warehouse in Tamworth Road , Croydon … |
| 56 | Now his lifesize copies of himself can be seen clambering over the school buildings . |
| 57 | However , the imminent arrival of the railway was foreshadowed by an appearance of a spectral train whose large black locomotive was seen rushing along the lonely Highland road with headlights blazing before suddenly veering off into the hills . |
| 58 | Cars had been seen dodging through the lay-by to avoid red lights , it was said , and the pedestrian refuge between the road and lay-by was not wide enough to stand with a pram . |
| 59 | In writings about the Renaissance , its beginning may be seen to waver from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century . |
| 60 | Or those voracious fish-eaters , otters , have been seen to play in the same pool as the salmon , fish who would normally flee from the presence of such a competent and fearsome predator . |