Example sentences of "have see [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody stops learning , but at only 15st I 'm the fastest heavyweight the world has seen in a long time . ’ |
| 2 | Marron told police he 'd been copying what he 'd seen on a pornographic video : Judge Paul Clark said it showed how harmful such videos were . |
| 3 | Martin Browne himself believed that Eliot was too ready to rely upon outworn social and theatrical conventions , but suggested that they " reflect an unconscious reversion to the drama that Eliot must have seen as a young theatregoer before 1914 " . |
| 4 | Even close up the Mad Axe still has an air of quality about it and the finish is one of the best I 've seen on a Korean guitar . |
| 5 | It was the funniest sight I 've seen for a long while , but hardly fair on the birds … . |
| 6 | Inner : one of the best inners I 've seen for a long time . |
| 7 | It 's been the best bit of talent we 've , they 've seen for a long while ! |
| 8 | Nicest bars I 've seen in a long time . ’ |
| 9 | The teaming up of Land 's End Ltd with Rowland Edwards , who seems to have his own unique version of reality , produced one of the choicer pieces of double-speak I 've seen in a long time : a press release announcing a campaign to add fixed anchors and gear to the crags in the interests of the environment and safety . |
| 10 | ‘ All this , with the bonus of an organic approach , makes it one of the most original books on gardening that I 've seen in a long time , ’ says our kitchen garden correspondent , Adam Pasco . |
| 11 | Elland Road was the emptiest I 've seen in a long time , 23,000 of which 4000 were Crewe fans . |
| 12 | It was a hell of a match , one of the best I 've seen in a long while ( live that is ) . |
| 13 | Hell of a good film though , it 's the best film I 've seen in a long time . |
| 14 | An enormous boxer hurled himself on me in delight , clawing at my chest with the biggest , horniest feet I had seen for a long time . |
| 15 | And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them . |
| 16 | Indeed , my father 's face had gone a dull reddish colour , like no colour I had seen on a living being . |
| 17 | It was not until fifty years after the great fire which had swept it all away that Eadmer wrote this description of what he had seen as a small boy of about seven . |
| 18 | He was about to leave the foundry and continue his journey when an apprentice came rushing in with the loveliest girl he had seen in a long while , and his heart seemed to stop . |
| 19 | I wore a suit that Mary had seen in a second-hand shop in Paris and insisted I bought so that at least I had one outfit I could put on for interviews without worrying whether it looked OK or not . |
| 20 | Behind the brunette there stood a man whom Lee had seen in a long-running television serial , playing a detective . |
| 21 | He greeted her calmly and as he turned the ignition key he said , ‘ I have to see to a young leopard and treat the hippo , who , they tell me , is a bit off colour . |
| 22 | Long experience suggests that magnetic disks have seen off a long series of challenges over the past 15 years — but a review of the survival and thriving of the technology gives a very partial and inadequate view . |
| 23 | This — which several British critics have seen as a post-AIDS film — is postmodernist in its mixture of genres : it starts out as a straightforward melodrama and shifts into a horror or ‘ stalk and slash ’ genre . |
| 24 | The same is not true of the West 's other non-Arab ally , Turkey , which some have seen as a potential guardian of the Levant . |
| 25 | Each yoke carries a properly designed and built-in PTT button , unlike some of the Jubilee clipped-on afterthoughts I have seen on a great many Wichita and Lock Haven singles , with the associated ‘ curly cable ’ disappearing behind the lower instrument panel . |
| 26 | ‘ Marcus is the best young athlete and talent I have seen for a long time , ’ said Allison . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This is the highest quality educational package I have seen in a long time and is well worth registering . |
| 29 | As we have seen in a previous chapter , he argued that such an illusory growth could in fact mask a real decline in values and use-values . |