Example sentences of "[be] never see " in BNC.
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| 1 | They keep a low profile here , but this person and her colleagues have been chosen to perform some of the most important jobs on the station , though they 're never seen . |
| 2 | In fact : a full-length cinema-scope colour spread of BB on her stomach at the water 's edge displaying a bottom ‘ as bare as a censor 's eyeball ’ said Time ; BB rescued from the sea in a clinging wet dress ; her wedding night concealed behind some strategically tossed bed linen ; and her breasts showing in faint outline through the sheet she is holding up for modesty 's sake ( they were never seen unveiled ) . |
| 3 | He tricked our neighbours to sit on it and they were never seen again . |
| 4 | His ‘ Caesar ’ hair-cut was brilliantined into kiss-curls framing a face that had nasty carved all over it , and rumour had it that people who crossed him were never seen again . |
| 5 | This custom ended suddenly when a witch took the opportunity to kidnap several of the children , who were never seen again . |
| 6 | Thucydides , an acute social historian when he wants to be , remarks that ‘ most of the dealings between the Spartans and their helots were of a precautionary character ’ ( iv.80 ) , and tells a suitably laconic story of two thousand specially manly helots who were garlanded and led round the temples as if they were about to be given their freedom ; they were never seen again and nobody knew what happened to them . |
| 7 | She 'd heard sickening tales of barbarous Gestapo torture , and of prisoners who were never seen again . |
| 8 | ‘ And were never seen alive again ? ’ |
| 9 | Furthermore , while economic historians might assess in retrospect the effects of excise on levels of consumption , or by implication on the level of savings , customs duties in their own time were never seen solely from the point of view of the revenue but always as an important instrument of economic regulation . |
| 10 | Moreover , transient lower oesophageal sphincter relaxations , which are a prerequisite for reflux to occur in the presence of a normal resting pressure of the sphincter , were never seen before or during the non-deglutitive motor activity . |
| 11 | They were never seen waving their scarves , chanting and kicking people with their Doc Martens at any other time of the year . |
| 12 | Giant rectal contractions were never seen in normal subjects . |
| 13 | Their van was found at Manchester Airport the following day and the couple were never seen again . |
| 14 | The brother and sister kissed goodbye , not knowing that they were never to see each other again . |
| 15 | They were never to see each other again . |
| 16 | ‘ What I look forward to is never seeing it again . ’ |
| 17 | A good way to stay out of trouble is never to see nobody . ’ |
| 18 | The oak trees had not yet lost the vivid yellow-green of their late springtime , a colour so bright , so fresh and so unparalleled elsewhere in nature or in art that no one has ever been able to emulate it and it is never seen in paint or cloth or women 's dresses . |
| 19 | There are 8 ‘ corner ’ pieces , 12 ‘ edge ’ pieces , 6 ‘ centre ’ pieces ( which are the centres of the cube faces and might be called ‘ face ’ pieces ) and a central piece that is never seen . |
| 20 | Elvira is possibly the only lady in the world who can not be accused of enlarging her chest by putting tissue paper in her bra ; firstly because she is never seen in one and secondly have you seen the points on her high heels ? |
| 21 | But , as Iago says , ‘ Knavery 's plain face is never seen till used ’ ( Othello , II.i.306 ) . |
| 22 | Fox hunting is a sport that is never seen in the village today , although the fox abounds in the surrounding woods and the disused pits . |
| 23 | The story-line and the characters may seem incredible — like beautiful Remedios who floats up into the heavens while folding the household sheets and is never seen again — but Marquez defies you to disbelieve in them . |
| 24 | It could be that the Pied Piper is never seen , but that all communication with him is by letter or petition — with the teacher writing replies but not actually appearing in the role . |
| 25 | Mr Tholen , who retires at the end of this month as chairman of Darlington Health Authority , is a dapper man of 67 who is never seen without a carnation in his lapel except , he says , when he is shooting or flying . |
| 26 | Vic 's never seen her since . |
| 27 | THIS POOR CHILD IS NINE YEARS OLD AND SHE 'S NEVER SEEN A BARBIE DOLL ! |
| 28 | Maria 's never seen this postman before , but it 's not so strange , they always take new people on at Christmas . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's never seen her look the way she did this afternoon . |
| 30 | He looks like he 's never seen an iron . ’ |