Example sentences of "[adv] have seen [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years earlier , he could not have seen it in quite the way he does , for even in Repton 's modem living room ( Fig. 7b ) the structural features of a room , together with the figures of its occupants , still dominate the furnishings ; these are sparse , and still tend to have their backs against the wall . |
| 2 | They might already have seen her . |
| 3 | ‘ The picture of Liz on the sofa — she was a woman alone in a room ; as only God , I should have thought , could possibly have seen her . |
| 4 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 5 | But its disappearance will be of serious concern to the growing medium-sized business needing a serious injection of equity to continue to fulfil its potential and also the venture capitalist who may always have seen it as a desired exit route for an investment . |
| 6 | I would rather have seen it move to Merthyr Tydfil , Brecon , or anywhere else , because it is an authority for Wales . |
| 7 | But we may well have seen them without registering that fact ; perhaps a film is set in a particular location and we are so involved in the plot that the background scenery enters only our subconscious mind . |
| 8 | The Queen 's visit today , may well have seen them finally marching forward . |
| 9 | As for King Arthur , Tolkien might well have seen him as a symptom of English vagueness . |
| 10 | Anyone passing Belfast 's Europa Hotel on Monday could well have seen it moving to a funky beat — not because of high winds or earthquake , but the first heat of the Coca Cola ‘ 93 Disco Dancing Championships , which are co-sponsored by ‘ Sunday Life ’ . |
| 11 | And there is a high proportion of people who know a good deal about what they are looking at and may even have seen it before . |
| 12 | And they might n't have seen her yet if Ronni had n't spoken , so totally absorbed were they in one another . |
| 13 | He ca n't have seen me , Masklin told himself . |
| 14 | You would n't have seen me , because that idiot was driving far too fast . |
| 15 | Self abuse , wo n't have seen them . |
| 16 | She reminded me of a wasp as she flitted round him , a wasp suddenly aware , in the way wasps have , that there is rotting matter in the vicinity , for she had been upstairs when he arrived by way of the garden and could n't have seen him . |
| 17 | ‘ They ca n't have seen us already , ’ said Rosheen . |
| 18 | I would n't have seen you for another hour . |
| 19 | Once , you would think he , she would n't have seen it or she would n't have |
| 20 | Oh wait a minute the doctor should n't have seen it then should he ? |
| 21 | ROBBIE I could maybe have seen her if you 'd said . |
| 22 | Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them . |
| 23 | But it was quite uncanny — three days earlier it would have been completely covered in snow and they 'd never have seen it : three days later it would have been stripped to a skeleton . ’ |
| 24 | Oh some marvellous performances in it , but really it was Joan Littlewood 's intrinsic concept which was miraculous really , that 's and really I do n't know whether the movie lost a lot as against the play — I think it lost something — the important thing was that millions of people who would never have seen it , had it remained purely as a theatre production , did see what Joan Littlewood had to say , saw her perceptions , her wit , her humanity , and therefore I think it was well worth making . |
| 25 | It may be that he took new insignia after the subjugation of Norway , and that he left his old crown in Winchester , in much the same way that Henry II of Germany had , at his imperial coronation in 1014 , hung his former crown above the altar of St Peter 's , where Cnut would almost certainly have seen it thirteen years later . |