Example sentences of "[adv] seen the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The past two years have only seen the start of the process , and in terms of M4 the process has not been started at all . |
| 2 | He said he would like a plant or two of Gale with spleenwort leaves ( i.e. Comptonia peregriaa var. aspleniifolia ) and dried specimens of the male and female plants , having only seen the former . |
| 3 | Those who have only seen the northern stars may not realize how much more dramatic are those of the southern hemisphere . |
| 4 | Since the war had begun , she 'd only seen the enemy on newsreels . |
| 5 | Although they have only seen the creature far away , it is exactly like the hell-hound of the Baskerville story . |
| 6 | For a moment , Folly was taken aback , but then she realised that the policeman had probably only seen the last few seconds of their little drama . |
| 7 | But through the clogging pain in her breast , she could only seen the gaze of Lady Usk — dark and knowing . |
| 8 | Well I 've only seen the back of it . |
| 9 | The man had been in the wood and had perhaps seen the animal cemetery . |
| 10 | They 'd all seen the armada crossing the water . |
| 11 | We have all seen the new jogger in his designer track suit and shoes , puffing and panting along the pavement , joints creaking and heart pounding as though his life depended upon it . |
| 12 | Anathema as it may be to Welsh Rugby Union ears , this was something they realised at Twickenham at least five years ago and we have all seen the felicitous results . |
| 13 | ‘ You have all seen the report from Captain Myeloski . ’ |
| 14 | Our ideas coalesced with those of Ray Cusick in the production of the Dalek itself once we 'd all seen the scripts . |
| 15 | They have all seen the game on TV , they know that if they get to the table they can build big breaks and if you make one mistake they go for your jugular . |
| 16 | The Dutch administration had long seen the need for consular representation in Jedda , the port of Mecca , where the security , health and transport of large numbers of Indonesian pilgrims could be supervised by the Batavian authorities . |
| 17 | Big companies have long seen the advantages of training by computer but have thought technology immature . |
| 18 | The Department had long seen the field as part of Ninian for taxation purposes until this break-through . |
| 19 | This , despite the fact that he had not long seen the evidence of its use with his own eyes , in the shape of the two sprawled corpses at the gas station . |
| 20 | I 'm wide awake now , because I 've suddenly seen the formula 2X35L IX32M appear in my brain , like the glowing green digits on the video , and then softly , effortlessly deconstruct itself into elements of meaning . |
| 21 | ‘ The Duchess had obviously seen the show before , ’ a member of the audience recalls , ‘ because every time a good line was begun by one of the actors she would finish it off quite loudly . |
| 22 | Netwise is eager to bolster the Unix side of its business , but admits ‘ NobleNet has obviously seen the light with RPC technology that the rest of us did n't … they 're going to be tough to beat ’ . |
| 23 | I 'd rarely seen the place as packed as it was when I got there . |
| 24 | I have rarely seen the House so unanimous in warmth and affection , and especially in its understanding of the severe ordeal that one of our colleagues and his family have had to endure for many months . |
| 25 | For example , consider a person who bought a house for £80,000 in 1988 , with a mortgage of £75,000 , who has since seen the price of that property fall to £65,000 . |
| 26 | She had scarcely seen the Mercedes that had swung into the drive just as she 'd been about to go out , but by sheer instinct she had swerved to miss it , sparing only a glance in the mirror to tell her the other car was safe before speeding on her way again . |
| 27 | He had somehow seen the truth . |
| 28 | It is also the most widely used general classification scheme on the Continent of Europe , and this in an environment where libraries have not generally seen the virtue of published classification schemes , preferring to use their own private schemes . |
| 29 | She had soon seen the potential of his drab and neglected establishment , and now they were married the business was doing very well . |
| 30 | ‘ Father of the missing girl over there , talking to the good lady who runs this establishment and who has already seen the body . |