Example sentences of "[vb past] seen a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went two stops to where Alice had seen a long low bridge along a main road over railway lines . |
| 2 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 3 | They had seen a tiny marble-topped table in the kitchen , big enough for one person to eat at , perhaps two at a squash . |
| 4 | There was another story about a blind mother , whose son did not return after the battle ; she wept when he did not return , and asked the survivors if they had seen a young and lovely boy lying slain , dressed in delicately embroidered garments of fine silk , and the survivors said No , they had seen no boy , but they had seen a great bearded man dead , and he had worn tied about his waist strange garments , torn and faded and old , which had once been embroidered with flowers . |
| 5 | She told the audience how she had seen a new state-of-the-art ambulance which was only for use by private patients but staffed and paid for by the NHS . |
| 6 | He was familiar with Pound 's writing on Japanese drama , and had been impressed by the first performance of At the Hawk 's Well when he had seen a well-known Japanese dancer take the role of the hawk . |
| 7 | The 19th century had seen a bitter Civil War ( 1861–5 ) , and the victory of the Union armies had prevented the splitting of the USA into two nations . |
| 8 | Yet an American girl came here , who 'd crossed the mountains , and there she had seen a teeny bearded man wearing a black serge suit . |
| 9 | I told her that once , going into church , I had seen a kind young priest christening a very nice baby . |
| 10 | Ahmed had come from that dizzy town to boast that he had seen a bad strange girl leaving Marie Claire 's house and had shouted and thrown stones at her . |