Example sentences of "seen a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Beatrice complained sadly that she had nothing to wear that had n't been seen a hundred times . |
| 2 | It was a movement I had seen a hundred times on television , but never before in real life . |
| 3 | He watched the young man 's face , now set in the sort of bored , practised , professional expression Grout had seen a hundred times before . |
| 4 | And he says there was sixty , he says , he says he 's seen a hundred horses standing to get shod on a morning . |
| 5 | He 'd seen a hundred funerals . |
| 6 | The closing of a station intangibly but significantly diminishes the spiritual life of a country and its people , for it brings down the curtain with devastating finality on a stage which has seen a thousand dramas , comic and tragic , played out and has mirrored the changing moods of the nation , has etched itself into the working lives of some , the emotional lives of others . |
| 7 | I 've been family member for twelve years and must have seen a thousand children , and of those , barely fifty had both their natural mother and father ! |
| 8 | I 'd never seen a white blues band playing so good and this kid , Jimmie Vaughan , was playing some of the most devastating guitar I 've ever heard in my life . |
| 9 | He had seen a few curtains moving in neighbouring houses . |
| 10 | After Tomkins had served the second glass , Robins looked at me almost quizzically , and said , ‘ I 've seen a few doctors come and go in the islands , but you do n't seem to fit into the usual pattern . ’ |
| 11 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
| 12 | There was no tension in him : when he was tense there was a rigidity in his neck muscles , a rigidity I 'd watched from the depths of the crowd during the brief day of his trial and seen a few times since , as at Nottingham . |
| 13 | I 'm sure it 's in Pauline 's garden because I 've seen a few times . |
| 14 | Right , okay , my boudoir , I 've just seen a few things together . |
| 15 | Retention alone is not sufficient for comprehension , but without this mental black-board will be difficult to relate the meaning of one word to the meaning of another seen a few seconds later . |
| 16 | Most potholes can only be seen a few yards ahead , and cars swerving without warning hardly contribute to road safety . |
| 17 | Fleischmann and Pons were seeing 25 per cent unaccounted-for heat sometimes and had not yet more than the hope of proving that there were neutrons proving fusion ; Jones claimed to have seen a few neutrons at levels which , while interesting for science and understanding aspects of the Earth , bore no large scale practical benefits — what use is a billionth of a watt ? |
| 18 | She must have seen a few sights in her time . ’ |
| 19 | One was seen a few miles off Newhaven on 21 September 1936 ; one flew east off Langney Point on 15 October 1948 ; One flew east off Langney Point on 19 November 1950 . |
| 20 | The first 10–15 minutes should have seen a few goals in the net for Leeds . |