Example sentences of "[vb infin] seen a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | LATE-NIGHT revellers who may have seen a vicious assault have ignored police appeals to come forward . |
| 3 | ‘ Some idiot might have seen a well-dressed elderly gent near the railway line and then you could have been questioned . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You were John Mayall 's longest-serving side man , and must have seen a good few guitarists and drummers come and go … |
| 7 | If I could have seen a respectable way to dismiss this appeal I should have been happy to do so . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | After the night Quigley had kicked my head in , I had finally seen something I should have seen a long time ago . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Here you would have seen a great attraction and opportunities to do well in expanding industries . |
| 14 | Now , if you were out and about at about ten o'clock last night you may have seen a greenish glow in the sky . |
| 15 | She must have seen a few sights in her time . ’ |
| 16 | The first 10–15 minutes should have seen a few goals in the net for Leeds . |