Example sentences of "[pers pn] have seen [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept my fingers crossed figuratively during the first few months of our acquaintance that neither of us would be sent elsewhere on a permanent posting — permanent until demob , that is — because I had seen quite a few promising romances nipped in the bud by one or the other partner being whipped away by the unfeeling powers-that-be , and when a relationship is developing you do need a few weeks of togetherness to allow it to mature . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've seen just the same in the police , ’ murmured Blanche . |
| 3 | I 've seen quite a few er in the so well you see we belong wi the Guild is fit into three tiers . |
| 4 | Over the past twenty years I have seen about a dozen performances of Hamlet , a play which was also constantly revived in the early seventeenth century . |
| 5 | ‘ I have seen quite a few races on television and the competition is really good . ’ |
| 6 | He was n't allowed to work that day , so people turned up in a white shirt and tie and looking smart , they had to wear uniforms even a cap but unfortunately nowadays , although a lot of the I have seen quite a few people their uniform has changed since I left , but erm they do come to work in very very casual work now . |
| 7 | ‘ You will remember that although I was born a vicar 's daughter , I have seen quite a different level of life since then . |
| 8 | The note had made her giggle and she 'd seen absolutely no harm in going . |
| 9 | And I 'm sure you 've seen where the chief constable says he wants more bobbies on the beat , well perhaps this is a way to a to achieving that . |
| 10 | Now , the profits , the profits you 've seen where the profits came down , let's look at it another way and that is really to see er , the impact per the year before . |
| 11 | But sometimes she had seen just a glimpse , a fragment , of an unknown person , deep and inward-looking , complex , full of contradictions . |
| 12 | I think you have seen already the EOC 's concern expressed about what is happening in things like women 's centres . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've seen quite a lot of completely sterile ears in winter barley , which is due to frost on secondary tillers . |
| 14 | We 've seen quite a lot of you lately . ’ |
| 15 | We 've seen quite a dramatic increase this year . |
| 16 | Peach and cherry trees are out in blossom , and we 've seen quite a few birds . |
| 17 | It was the bus that we had seen twice every day for the last three days , making its regular coastal run between Bulukumba and Makassar . |
| 18 | We have seen exactly the same psychological process in palaeontology , where the fashionable fixation for homoeomorphy in many groups brainwashed many of us into thinking : " if they look alike they ca n't be related " ! |
| 19 | Although as we have seen earlier the decorative qualities of gold could be explored by direct hammering , the archaeological record shows that goldsmithing of a sophisticated kind in fact developed in communities which practised copper or bronze metallurgy . |
| 20 | As my right hon. Friend the Member for Sparkbrook said earlier , we have seen only a few small and rather insignificant measures that do not add up to a large impact on our criminal justice system , which is crying out for fundamental change . |
| 21 | As we have seen only the papers relevant to the subject of our review , we are not able to judge how the assessment machinery deals with areas of higher priority , but we believe that , in dealing with Argentina and the Falkland Islands , it was too passive in operation to respond quickly and critically to a rapidly changing situation which demanded urgent attention . |
| 22 | In Chapter 1 , and along the way , we have seen how a characteristic feature of seventeenth-century thought was its anti-Aristotelianism . |
| 23 | We have seen how a conversation between a sergeant and a private might proceed by reference to each of the felicity conditions for an order and a challenge to each of them in turn , before becoming more explicit with the use of a direct order and an outright refusal . |
| 24 | We have seen how a couple of strands of consonant voices can be turned into mild or harsh dissonance , or vice versa — how dissonant voices can be turned towards consonance . |
| 25 | We have seen how the off-farm job could place some restrictions on the farm and vice versa but there were also benefits to the farm from the off-farm employment . |
| 26 | In previous chapters we have seen how the ancient manor of Combsburgh had been partially enclosed as early as the fourteenth century , especially in the areas close to the market town , and how the bulk of the field structure had been established by the late sixteenth century . |
| 27 | We have seen how the form of the relations between body size and the size of organs or of territory can be used to generate and test hypotheses . |
| 28 | We have seen how the interaction of environment and genes has had a feedback effect , and how the fossils of primitive horses show they were little more than the size of large dogs . |
| 29 | We have seen how the findings of Barry Hall and John Cairns have suggested that some genetic codes occur more often when they are useful than when they are not . |
| 30 | We have seen how the impersonalism of public life and changes in the structure and functions of the family have led to an emphasis on self-fulfilment as something that belongs in the private sphere . |