Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [pron] have seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turned out that her son was a great friend of the paraquat-wielding monk I had seen at the monastery farm near Roscrea . |
| 2 | This Easter we have seen the groundswell of demand all over the world that the arms race be brought to a standstill . |
| 3 | Certainly in this Parliament we have seen that happen . |
| 4 | Then the old porter I 'd seen on my first visit shambled across the hallway , teapot with no lid in one hand and a bottle of milk in the other . |
| 5 | It 's the worst offence of this kind I 've seen while working in South Gloucestershire . |
| 6 | The marked language of the Miller 's Tale , swyve and pisse , is found again in the Reeve 's Tale ; fartynge is not named as such in the Reeve 's Tale , but is included with a circumlocution that uses a marked term we have seen in the Shipman 's Tale : The miller 's boast : is no doubt intended to be simply proverbial , but has a richly ironic meaning in light of the " beard " that Absolon finds upon obtaining his kiss from Alison ( 3730 – 43 ) . |
| 7 | On the other hand , a ridden horse with his ears pricked forward is probably concentrating on an object or another horse it has seen , which could result in a shy or other forms of misbehaviour . |
| 8 | Look whoever 's editing this tape you 've seen the cunt . |
| 9 | In this chapter we have seen that growth is an inherent characteristic of both the Kingdom and the Church . |
| 10 | This is the first proper daylight I 've seen for two months . |
| 11 | Once again McNab paid tribute to the old guard who have seen Tranmere soar into third place in the First Division the highest placing in the club 's history . |
| 12 | The old lady who had seen something from her window , all those years ago . |
| 13 | The historical period which has seen its political devaluation is one in which political optimism has become unfashionable , which perhaps is one way of explaining the retrospective or merely historicist character of the Situationist exhibition , and the books I have reviewed . |
| 14 | Here , at close quarters , the fitful , elusive silver congealed into the turgid brown flood she had seen upriver , a silent surge of water looking almost solid in its power , sweeping along leaves and branches and roots and swathes of weed in its eddies , gnawing away loose red layers of the soil along this near bank , and eating at the muddy rim of the path . |
| 15 | This evening we have seen the old familiar Labour party of intervention , protectionism and high prices . |
| 16 | ‘ We were wondering about that charming old gentleman we 've seen you with in Mondano . ’ |
| 17 | A distant nephew of our chairman , ‘ Hani ’ is the most exciting prospect I have seen this week . |
| 18 | Every week , for one reason or another , there was a man about the place , looking for some creature I 'd seen , or thought I 'd seen . |
| 19 | This season I 've seen Hampshire go to the top of the table and then stumble off again . |
| 20 | in the day of high technology , is n't it possible to devise some scheme where they can go round and spray camp which leaves an invisible but detective in a way of magnetic or something er marking on the pavements , in New Master this week we 've seen a eruption of white , yellow , green and blue erm spray paint on the pavements , all by different contractors or |
| 21 | On Central News this week we 've seen how firms from the region are surviving in the American market place . |
| 22 | Will the Secretary of State make clear to the summit that after fourteen years of this government we have seen unemployment treble to three million unemployed . |
| 23 | Next month he faces another man who has seen better days , Michael Olajade , a Nigerian born in Britain . |
| 24 | Next month he faces another man who has seen better days , Michael Olajade , a Nigerian born in Britain . |
| 25 | I recalled an old man I had seen that afternoon , standing by a well . |
| 26 | On this path we have seen the rise of the congress of South African trade unions and the African National Congress , to positions where they claim their rightful places in the future democratic , non-racist , non-sexist South Africa . |
| 27 | Athelstan had talked to another friar who had seen Wallingford 's ingenious clock , the wheels within it fixed as if by magic , which not only measured the hours but indicated the states and signs , the phases of the moon , the position of the sun , the planets and the heavens . |
| 28 | If you saw it over the weekend I mean there was I think it was group sex er it was it wa was gay sex and it was all going on I mean it was all I thought it was the most exciting thing I have seen for a long time to be quite honest . |
| 29 | In the first quarter of this year we 've seen more moderate growth in those geographical areas but in nineteen eighty nine nearly forty percent of Pearson 's trading ca profit came from economies outside the U K and North America and we expect our activities in these other areas to continue to grow at a satisfactory rate . |
| 30 | This year we have seen the Griffiths report . |