Example sentences of "seen [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Attendance at external courses must be justified against training objectives or be seen to acquire for the county library some new or up-date skill/ knowledge/experience which would otherwise be a noticeable gap ’ . |
| 2 | The tiny fry ( about 1.5mm ) will be seen darting around the container and they can be removed by using a pipette or a teaspoon . |
| 3 | A STRABANE man seen to fall into the River Mourne from the Mourne Bridge has been rescued by police . |
| 4 | Later she was seen phoning from the office . |
| 5 | Groups of Muslim demonstrators retaliated by attacking the nearby Holiday Inn with small arms and grenades in an effort to dislodge several snipers who could be seen firing from the hotel 's upper floors . |
| 6 | Even as recently as this summer , for old time 's sake , perhaps , one of them was seen hanging round the campsite . |
| 7 | In line with the general emphasis on blood in the exilic Priestly tradition , tremendous importance was attached to the actual blood of the circumcision , and unless several drops of blood were seen to issue from the wound , the operation was deemed invalid and valueless . |
| 8 | That case can thus be seen to proceed on the same basis as the colore officii cases . |
| 9 | Despite this one Macchi of the 79 a Squadriglia was seen to go into the sea between Gozo and Cap Scalambria possibly due to oxygen starvation of the pilot , Serg.Magg . |
| 10 | To identify people by name can be seen to detract from the objectivity of the report . |
| 11 | The next day Walter Miller of the Edison Company was asked whether all the musical records he sent would have the title on the end of the cylinder , as they had seen arranged at the laboratory the day before , to which he replied , ‘ Yes sir , they will be fixed up that way ’ . |
| 12 | He was seen weeping in the waiting-room at Durham station , and the misery was the giving up of Durham with its epic history , its Bede and Cuthbert , its beauty and its strength , his new friends and his old , the university and the mining communities . |
| 13 | It would be easier to convince senior managers that Unix is a viable platform if all systems were seen to work in the same way , regardless of what was underneath . |
| 14 | Although his body never left the dark realm , the ba-bird 's soul wandered daily amongst men and was often seen perched on the steps of the temple near the busy market-place , the better to observe mankind 's activities . |
| 15 | It is true that the present nature of the threat can be seen to come from the left . |
| 16 | Police helmets could be seen bobbing above the crowd as a small corps of police officers attempted to force their way through to rescue Clasper from the hands of the mob . |
| 17 | Here seals may be seen bobbing in the calm waters . |
| 18 | Mr Browning , of Vicarage Road , Cwm-parc , Mid Glamorgan , is alleged to be the driver of a silver C-registration Renault 25 seen parked on the motorway at the time Mrs Wilks was killed . |
| 19 | They also want information on cars seen parked in the village . |
| 20 | The unemployed 18 year-old had turned to prostitution and was seen soliciting in the Chapeltown area of Leeds on July 9 , 1991 . |
| 21 | Central Television came and made an interview/ documentary film for their weekly current affairs programme Central Lobby , during the course of which I was seen driving around the neighbourhood , first preceding and then followed by the camera crew . |
| 22 | Then Frank and Betty are seen driving in the car at a clifftop beauty spot , where they get out and have a picnic . |
| 23 | The other shows three people who were seen walking along the Sharpness bypass that same morning . |
| 24 | Through the whole of the long night that followed , Boldwood 's dark figure could be seen walking over the hills of Weatherbury like a ghost . |
| 25 | He was regularly to be seen walking through the town with bowler hat and rolled umbrella . |
| 26 | At about 1.40pm cars started to appear and people were seen walking up the road . |
| 27 | She was seen walking near the church . |
| 28 | On other occasions , he had been seen walking in the surrounding countryside at the dead of night , carrying sacks full of rocks . |
| 29 | Mr Allsopp was known to suffer from senile dementia and was often seen walking in the area . |
| 30 | It can thus be seen to stand as the architectural counterpart to the other key artistic expressions of the age , the panoramic canvases of John Martin , Edward John Poynter , and Lawrence Alma-Tadema , toweringly romantic and imaginative recreations of the temples , palaces , baths , and amphitheatres of the ancient world , and the novels of Walter Scott , Harrison Ainsworth , and Bulwer-Lytton which evoked a monumental and teeming past of medieval castles , Tudor mansions , and unbridled Gothic imagination . |