Example sentences of "[vb infin] seen a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some idiot might have seen a well-dressed elderly gent near the railway line and then you could have been questioned . ’ |
| 2 | She must have seen a few sights in her time . ’ |
| 3 | Anyone who has travelled the country lanes around Holt , near Wrexham , may well have seen a tractor working that they could n't quite identify . |
| 4 | The West European chemical industry will probably have seen a 1 per cent increase in GDP in 1991 , Freeman added , compared to a forecast rise of 2.1 per cent . |
| 5 | I think she must have seen a lot of things at that time which had made her the way she was , seen things in the blackout and in the underground stations . |
| 6 | Here you would have seen a great attraction and opportunities to do well in expanding industries . |
| 7 | You may have seen a film of the African tribe , the Masai , running : they run on their toes . |
| 8 | You may have seen a table of life-events which indicates the relative effects of change on stress level . |
| 9 | Wolfram may never have seen a Muslim ; but he preaches , with outspoken conviction , the common humanity , the common place in God 's purpose , of Christian and heathen — ‘ spare God 's handiwork ’ . |
| 10 | You were John Mayall 's longest-serving side man , and must have seen a good few guitarists and drummers come and go … |
| 11 | Police want to interview anyone who was in the wine bar on Wednesday evening who may have seen a woman drinking with a man . |
| 12 | As Charles stood in his doorway and looked around , he must have seen a bustle of activity and a variety of dwellings only possible before the days of clinical town planning . |
| 13 | The early Church , noting that this miracle took place in the wilderness , ‘ a lonely place ’ , would have seen a parallel with the feeding of the children of Israel with manna in the wilderness of the Sinai desert . |
| 14 | Davies may have seen a close tussle between his two scrum halfs , but elsewhere in this gripping battle there was no question the Scarlets were the ones left blushing . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If I could have seen a respectable way to dismiss this appeal I should have been happy to do so . |
| 17 | I 've been family member for twelve years and must have seen a thousand children , and of those , barely fifty had both their natural mother and father ! |
| 18 | I was n't too impressed with this — I 'd rather have seen a film — but Andy thought it was all right , so I did too . |
| 19 | Fanny Burney said to Johnson that Shakespeare ‘ could never have seen a Caliban ’ , and Johnson told her that having seen a man Shakespeare knew how to vary one ; ‘ A man who would draw a monstrous cow , must first know what a cow commonly is ; or how can he tell that to give her an ass 's head or an elephant 's tusk will make her monstrous ? ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He would have seen a judgment in it . |
| 22 | A passenger looking out of the right-hand window of the carriage after the train for Bishop 's Castle had clattered over the pointwork away from the Shrewsbury and Hereford joint line , to curve westwards into the Onny valley , would have seen a small timber platform marking the site of a temporary station that became a permanent feature . |
| 23 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 24 | But now I have , and I see what I should have seen a long time ago , the selfish , arrogant , unscrupulous fixer who has been quietly feathering his nest in London for the past ten years at our expense after turning his back on us as though we were n't good enough for him , who could n't even be bothered to come home during this ordeal but just flew over on a weekend return when the mood took him , when he had nothing better to do , like the tourist he is ! |
| 25 | now some of you will also have seen a form being circulated , asking you to agree that the recordings that are being made of the discussions , can be used as part of a research project . |
| 26 | You may have seen a film , but wish to talk about who did the cinematography or who played a particular character . |
| 27 | ‘ You would have seen a person . |
| 28 | The first 10–15 minutes should have seen a few goals in the net for Leeds . |
| 29 | Each year the amount has gone up by inflation , and yet we see something approaching thirty thousand underspent on previous years , and here we are looking in the first year of this council to a , a , at least a five percent overspend and er , I wonder if we 've erm , excluded the time when there were n't many meetings at the beginning if we would n't have seen a considerably larger overspend . |
| 30 | It shows how well we are conducting the service , in what is an old bedding factory , after all , and if you 've been to Winchester lately , you will have seen a six million pound record office , with with modern architecture in a prominent position in Winchester , er , which I 'm sure they 're conducting a service , but I 'll bet you that pound for pound we 're giving a far better service in Wiltshire , with our dedicated staff , who 've been there a long time . |