Example sentences of "[conj] they have seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our second bureau is based on or around a traditional typesetting service where they have seen customers moving to in-house production using desktop publishing and want to continue to service the high quality end of the market . |
| 2 | Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm |
| 3 | In the past , as we have seen in earlier chapters , teachers have either confined themselves almost entirely to one or the other of the modes ( using terms like ‘ creative drama ’ in opposition to ‘ theatre ’ ) or they have seen them as separate stages in the child 's education . |
| 4 | Ford dealers Quicks of Altrincham had more potential customers in the few hours after Mr Lamont 's speech than they 'd seen all week . |
| 5 | It all seemed too large , too over-provided-for to feed them and the stunted attendants , even if there were a few more of them than they 'd seen until now ( and they were always complaining about being short-staffed , anyway ) . |
| 6 | If a cat stuck its leg in the air , they all raced off , screaming that they 'd seen something move . |
| 7 | If a cat struck its leg in the air , they all raced off , screaming that they 'd seen something move . |
| 8 | This was purely business , and for all the jolly camaraderie Kate was aware that most of the men she 'd met this evening had grave reservations about her ability to do her job well now that they 'd seen her . |
| 9 | We ran this kind of course by asking the teachers at the beginning of the course to select some device they 'd like to make , that they 'd seen the circuit of in a in a school magazine school science review magazine , and then build that . |
| 10 | It 's strange the way Chinese Whispers start about certain guitars ; by the time the umpteenth person has told you about the amazing instrument that they 've seen , you begin to be very sceptical about whether anything can be as outrageous as described … |
| 11 | A lot of them want to just talk , to feel secure that they 've seen a policeman . |
| 12 | ‘ The ones who come back who are n't mutated to the point of monstrosity say that they 've seen it . |
| 13 | The police say it was one of the worst attacks that they 've seen on a horse . |
| 14 | ‘ When we asked how they knew we were coming , they would solemnly say that they had seen the Little People lighting candles in all the windows . |
| 15 | . When two of my sons were little boys I took them to our old great-uncle Lord Albemarle 's yearly reception on Waterloo Day , that they might hereafter be able to say in their old age that they had seen and spoken to someone who had been at the Battle of Waterloo himself . |
| 16 | Members were pleased when constituents said that they had seen them on the box , and only one Member had received complaints that he had not been seen . |
| 17 | As they talked together , I was distressed to hear them recounting episodes of racial strife that they had seen . |
| 18 | She and her friend Annie Moberley believed that they had seen Marie Antoinette at the Petit Trianon ; they wrote a best-selling book about it , entitled An Adventure , which remains , even today , the subject of dispute . |
| 19 | Amongst new captives brought in were a Maxwell laird and an English under-officer , both of whom testified that they had seen King Edward Balliol riding off eastwards from the camp area , alone , still only in shirt and breeches , presumably making for the Border and Carlisle . |
| 20 | Interlocking would have prevented the signalman putting the signals for the express at ‘ CLEAR ’ yet it is strange that although both footplatemen on the express admitted not having seen the home signal on the approach to Charfield both men were equally emphatic that they had seen the proceeding distant signal and they said it was showing a green light and in the clear position . |
| 21 | His babe in arms would be no more responsive to Lloyd George 's leonine appearance than would an accompanying parakeet in a cage and if both , having seen him , were then carried around the National Gallery , it would be equally valid to claim that they had seen the works of art on display as well . |
| 22 | The point was , however , that Cumberbatch and Bates had named a number of video-nasties that did not in fact exist , and yet the children claimed that they had seen them . |
| 23 | After his death and burial in a far corner of the churchyard , several Dalespeople swore that they had seen George Hodgson walking by moonlight and after the mysterious deaths of a number of them , his body was exhumed and buried by the church porch with a stake through its heart . |
| 24 | But they told their grand father that they had seen the god , and that he had taken them to the mountain-top . |
| 25 | The Pretender nearly gave the game away by holding his skirts too high crossing a stream : ‘ some women whom they met reported that they had seen a very big woman , who looked like a man in woman 's clothes . ’ |
| 26 | She must have sat alone there for a good quarter of an hour , singing to herself , before Henry and Lettice came crashing back through the woods , squealing that they had seen Humphrey and Janet and must take to the skiff at once . |
| 27 | They examined the rope again and , satisfied that they had seen everything , climbed the stone steps back on to the track high on the river bank . |
| 28 | A Reuters report on Feb. 25 , however , said that refugees arriving from Kuwait in al-Ruweished , Jordan , had said that they had seen no evidence of Iraqi troops engaging in systematic atrocities or executing civilians . |
| 29 | This gave credence to the claims of some transferred Sendero women prisoners who told human rights workers that they had seen at least two women surrender who were later officially reported to have died in the fighting . |
| 30 | Matthew Clarke , QC , for TV Licensing , part of the Post Office , maintained that two officers who had called at Mr Guest 's house had genuinely believed that they had seen a flickering light . |