Example sentences of "[noun sg] [modal v] [verb] seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appears from the case decisions on this point that if the court feels that the driver should have seen the signal then the offence will be committed ; |
| 2 | The driver must have seen the prepared patch of ice reflected in the moonlight , for I saw his white face lean close to the windscreen . |
| 3 | The ole cow must 'ave seen me go in there from the winder an' suddenly the law pounces on me . |
| 4 | ‘ Surely the steersman must have seen ? ’ |
| 5 | So whoever it was driving the silent car must have seen them before twisting the wheel , reversing against the dry grass and brambles , and driving away as quietly towards the castle and the village . |
| 6 | ‘ There is much more , ’ said Huy , convinced that Merymose must have seen the other similarities too . |
| 7 | Like all prophecy , the signs were in the eye of the beholder , and perhaps another witness would have seen quite different forms In the blur . |
| 8 | An official at Retix said , ‘ if these companies had taken the entire product , the industry would have seen transaction processing interoperability a lot earlier . ’ |
| 9 | The mechanics of the succession would have seen the convening of the Palestinian parliament-in-exile , the Palestine National Council . |
| 10 | It could be anticipated that the college would have seen the creation of a continuous stream of books and papers generated by the rich source of material which pours through its gates , but this has hardly been the case . |
| 11 | Others besides the agency girl must have seen them leaving together ; she wondered how long it would take for the news to reach Pete . |
| 12 | The official story had always been that Greg was simply a close family friend , but a child could have seen through the pretence and she had not been a child for a very long time , perhaps not since that long-ago night when she was four years old and had stood , unseen , outside a bedroom door … |
| 13 | A child could have seen over them : rows of small children were in fact busy looking over them as she stood there , and looking moreover without disguise at her . |
| 14 | It was a vendetta , any child would have seen that . |
| 15 | Readers of last month 's issue will have seen the appeal for a special home . |
| 16 | The PC has only a limited amount of memory in which to store all the possible patterns , and , in fact , can never ‘ remember ’ the wide variety of shapes that even a young child will have seen . |
| 17 | In fact there were only 12 points between 20th and 6th places , a couple of away wins and a little luck could have seen us finish around 8th . |
| 18 | I only wish Daddy could have seen me in the black lace dress . |
| 19 | Considering the clean wake and the almost dinghy-like responsiveness of the yacht , we were convinced that a reach in a slightly stiffer breeze would have seen her sliding into an easy surf . |
| 20 | Police believe people driving along the busy Old Wolverton Road on Wednesday night may have seen something , and last night they carried out random checks on cars in the area . |
| 21 | He let his eyes roam round the kitchen , seeing it as that pleasant policeman must have seen it , in all its sad decrepitude . |
| 22 | Anyone who has attended a local event will have seen the Red Cross carrying out first aid duties but its work is far wider than most people realise . |
| 23 | The hon. Gentleman will have seen what President Yeltsin said as a result . |
| 24 | As my hon. Friend will have seen in the recent report on the first six months of the NHS reforms , substantial progress is being made by the NHS backed by our reforms and the record resources that we are making available . |
| 25 | The taxi-driver will probably remember picking you up , people on the train may have seen you … and of course they 'll question your friends . ’ |
| 26 | Thus we could not claim that an adult must have seen a speck of dust at a range of more than a foot or so , whereas birds could be said to see a small insect at 400 metres . |
| 27 | Well hidden underneath it was , or either the rogues would have found it when they tipped the load , or else the first who came to carry off timber would have seen it . |
| 28 | Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years . |
| 29 | An observer would have seen a raggedy man with his possessions gathered into a couple of carrier bags , his hair uncombed , and no life in his eyes at all . |
| 30 | The argument would run that the appointing authority would have seen the clause ( as they always ask to do ) before making the appointment , would have taken a fee for making the appointment , that the arrangement was therefore a contract incorporating the clause about suitability , and that an aggrieved party could sue for breach of that term of the contract . |