Example sentences of "[verb] never seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Odd-Knut has never seen one either , but that is less of a surprise as the noise and smell of his dogs frighten most animals away long before he spots them . |
| 2 | There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge . |
| 3 | Deacon 's structure involves two complementary shapes joined at right angles ; shapes that one has never seen before but one recognises as familiar . |
| 4 | Unfortunately the Irish Republic has never seen fit to look after its battlefields . ’ |
| 5 | However , the grim , vulnerable face staring out of the canvas reveals a side of me which undoubtedly is real enough , but one which I 'm sure Jane has never seen . |
| 6 | 1 small twentieth-century ornamental dinner plate with picture of Scarborough Beach ( this is optional , actually , but I always find it adds spice to a tour of a house if , when interest is flagging , you quietly get it out and prop it up on a table and then say innocently to an attendant : ‘ What 's the story behind that plate ? ’ and then wait to see what sort of explanation is invented by someone who has never seen it in his or her life before ) |
| 7 | As she looks in its direction , she sees in a way she has never seen before : |
| 8 | Meyer has never seen them . |
| 9 | Has never seen or touched — |
| 10 | He 's conscious that safety-critical items such as tyres and brakes must n't be skimped on , but he 's not overly concerned about sticking to the recommended 6000-mile service schedule ; so far the Sierra has on average been serviced every 13,500 miles and has never seen the inside of a Ford dealer 's workshop . |
| 11 | There 's so much good stuff that has never seen the light of day . |
| 12 | The current art editor has never seen his work . |
| 13 | ‘ George is over four months old and my father has never seen him , so I ca n't tell you what he thinks , ’ he told Hello ! magazine . |
| 14 | Fry and Flashman both launched a tirade of abuse against each other following their parting , but now they have shelved their differences and will work together again in a twosome , the like of which football has never seen , or is likely to again . |
| 15 | ‘ she has never seen what is good , how can she be good ? ’ — Vincent quoted from Zola 's L'Assommoir to back up his contention ; or perhaps he had read it there in the first place and appropriated it . |
| 16 | When Karen met Robert , teased by his description of himself as ‘ one of the few people who has never seen the ‘ Sound of Music ’ , she thought ‘ nice … |
| 17 | He has never seen 4-month-old daughter Jennifer but has written : ‘ I am seeking a reconciliation for all our sakes . ’ |
| 18 | And because he has never seen a smile , he has never learned to give one . |
| 19 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |
| 20 | I am entirely convinced that Joseph Kosuth has never seen work by Claudio Parmiggiani either actually or in reproduction . |
| 21 | But she has never seen a real hummingbird . |
| 22 | She has never seen any living animal or bird at all . |
| 23 | This discovery begins a love affair with a woman he has never seen . |
| 24 | Ullman therefore suggests ( contra empiricists and Piaget ) that a baby — or , one might add , a kingfisher — can see that two appearances are views of one and the same object even if it has never seen that sort of object before , and even if it has no tactile or manipulative evidence suggesting that they pertain to one and the same thing . |
| 25 | They must introduce an unfamiliar subject to an audience which has never seen a watercolour before , and also provide new information of permanent value . |
| 26 | He has two or three bidets in his house in Beverly Hills , but he has never seen them used in this way , with gusto . |
| 27 | If , meanwhile , another blackbird saw a species it has never seen before , it would rapidly associate this species with the mobbing calls made by its fellows . |
| 28 | For some time before 5 p.m. her mother was alone with Miss T. What passed between them we do not know , because Miss T. has never been able to say and the mother , although a party to the proceedings , has never seen fit to give evidence . |
| 29 | ‘ You are n't afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born ? ’ asked Miss Havisham . |
| 30 | She was so angry that she ordered my father straight out of the house , and he has never seen her since . |