Example sentences of "seen the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | seen the chief of police … with a chain saw ? |
| 2 | WE have seen the imposition of charges from so called care groups and the imposition of VAT on private care charges . |
| 3 | However the Phoenix Guard never divulge their secrets and no one has ever seen the Chamber of Days and lived . |
| 4 | The contrast is most marked in the West Midlands , which has seen the percentage of births jump from 8pc to 20pc over the decade . |
| 5 | Kathleen had always seen the sense of things , once they were explained . |
| 6 | Unprovoked by media hysteria , the last two years have seen the issue of values emerge in the staffroom . |
| 7 | I 've seen the type of bairns that go in and out of them . |
| 8 | Instead we have seen the rise of ideas like theme restaurants , where the emphasis has been on the theme and not on the quality of the food . |
| 9 | Since the war had begun , she 'd only seen the enemy on newsreels . |
| 10 | It soon became clear that she might have got the date and the king wrong , that she had n't seen the guinea for years , and so forth . |
| 11 | He 'd seen the face of Hapexamendios Himself , and half-crazed by the sight had been unable to resist the summons , and the binding , when it came . |
| 12 | Has the Prime Minister seen the prospectus from Pathfinders Repossessions plc , which is a company which proposes to buy repossessed homes at auction and then flog them off or rent them at a huge profit ? |
| 13 | At Leeds youth courts — the second busiest in the country — youth justice workers have also seen the number of appearances double since the introduction of the Criminal Justice Act . |
| 14 | Comet 1 , a course for middle managers , has also seen the number of women attending rise from 12.5 per cent in 1990 to 19.3 per cent in 1991 . |
| 15 | Someone with greater political vision might have seen the end of hostilities as the right moment to substitute civilian for military leadership . |
| 16 | The last few months have seen the launch of masses of small workgroup packages and E-mailing and scheduling programs , which are all designed to make it easier for people to chat to one another via their computers , |
| 17 | Lamps of every size sprouted in pairs where no one had seen the need for lamps before , until there were as many as four pairs on the front of a Cadillac , and there were models which carried fourteen lamps as if they were Mississippi riverboats . |
| 18 | The last decade has seen the growth of orchids and other sub-tropical flowers for export . |