Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who has seen a recent Konitz performance wo n't argue with this ; taste , attention to tonal delicacy and a striving after melodic inventiveness are his hallmarks . |
| 2 | Next month he faces another man who has seen better days , Michael Olajade , a Nigerian born in Britain . |
| 3 | Next month he faces another man who has seen better days , Michael Olajade , a Nigerian born in Britain . |
| 4 | THE HONEST old hired hand who has seen it all looks you unwaveringly in the eye . |
| 5 | Although crowds have gathered to watch these beatings , the police are never able to find anybody who has seen anything . |
| 6 | He took the list , that list right there , and he went like this with it — I was sitting across the table — and he said , ‘ For someone who has seen so much war as you have , North , you should understand that I want to end the war on terms that are acceptable to Iran . |
| 7 | It is not that she 's a political animal , just someone who has seen a lot of beautiful places in the world ; feels very fortunate to be in such a privileged position because of her successful TV and recording career , and so wants to put a bit back into a world which has so far been very kind to her . ’ |
| 8 | And he succeeded in making a telescope of the sort familiar to everyone today who has seen an elementary book on optics . |
| 9 | NOBODY who has seen the news on television of late can have remained unmoved by the harrowing pictures of the starvation that is afflicting parts of Africa , especially Ethiopia . |
| 10 | ‘ No officer living who has seen so little service as my Lord Marlborough is so fit for great commands , ’ commented William prophetically after the 40-year-old general had , in the autumn of 1690 , rapidly captured Cork and Kinsale . |
| 11 | Everyone who has seen the Vauxhall commercials featuring Layla will be familiar with the playing of Clem Clempson . |
| 12 | Everyone , without exception , who has seen this guitar has commented on its appearance in not particularly glowing terms . |
| 13 | I have not met the one in possession of my estate , and maybe never will , but I like to think of him as a kindly , white-haired old gentleman with a twinkle in his eye and a bag of humbugs for passing children , a man who has seen the troubles of the world but who remains untainted . |
| 14 | ‘ I just ca n't believe it may all go to waste , ’ says Alison Knapp , a theatre manager who has seen the whole project through since it was first planned in 1983 . |
| 15 | Yesterday they issued a new appeal for information from anyone who has seen the garment . |
| 16 | A lawyer who has seen the writ said last night : ‘ It is a typical dispute between two ex-business partners . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It is a typical dispute between two former business partners , ’ said a lawyer who has seen the writ . |
| 18 | Charlotte , who has seen more than 20 prime ministers come and go in Britain since she was born in 1877 , received her 15th telegram from the Queen . |
| 19 | The Great Mother is like a priestess sitting in the dark temple , an old , old woman , who has seen many seekers come and go , all with their own vital problems and joys . |
| 20 | His face was old and young , sardonic and knowing , amused and handsome ; the face of a man who has seen the world 's wickedness and knows how to match it with his own . |
| 21 | He will be reminded of the saying of Jesus , ‘ ’ He who has seen me has seen the Father . ’ |
| 22 | The play has been presented down the years by impresario Sir Peter Saunders , who has seen all or some of it nearly 500 times . |
| 23 | Former champion and born-again Christian George Foreman — who has seen the sleazy side of life at first hand — warned after Lewis 's brilliant two-round knockout of Razor Ruddock at Earls Court : ‘ Lennox Lewis will win the world title — as long as he does n't get in with the wrong crowd . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Pilots are the most important factor in the treatment of an engine ’ , commented Tony , who has seen several powerplants come back to the care of his team long before they need have done , had they been handled correctly . |
| 25 | IN these times of recession , the advice is DO N'T PUT YOUR CASH INTO CARS — as any classic car owner who has seen his investment crash through the floor will tell you . |
| 26 | ‘ It was , perhaps , appropriate that the bereaved fiancee and husband should find mutual consolation although no one who has seen the beautiful Barbara Berowne could suppose that the marriage was merely a matter of fraternal duty . ’ |
| 27 | Faith , by contrast , approaches Jesus with a radically different attitude , recognising in him the revelation of the invisible God , believing that it is true that ‘ he who has seen me has seen the Father ’ . |
| 28 | Any fishkeeper who has seen the fry 's response to the flicking of the black pelvic fins of their mother will have no doubt that communication is taking place . |
| 29 | ‘ The Brazilian economy is an economy of frights , and mercifully this plan brought no new frights , ’ said Roberto Campos , a former finance minister who has seen it all . |
| 30 | Anyone who has seen the martins and swallows in September , assembling on the telephone wires , twittering , making short flights singly and in groups over the open , stubbly fields , returning to form longer and even longer lines above the yellowing verges of the lanes — the hundreds of individual birds merging and blending , in a mounting excitement , into swarms , and these swarms coming loosely and untidily together to create a great , unorganized flock , thick at the centre and ragged at the edges , which breaks and re-forms continually like clouds or waves — until that moment when the greater part ( but not all ) of them know that the time has come : they are off and have begun once more that great southward flight which many will not survive ; anyone seeing this has seen at work the current that flows ( among creatures who think of themselves primarily as part of a group and only secondarily , if at all , as individuals ) to fuse them together and impel them into action without conscious thought or will : has seen at work the angel which drove the First Crusade into Antioch and drives the lemmings into the sea . |