Example sentences of "[vb past] seen no " in BNC.

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1 He 'd seen no reason to reveal to Morgan and Evans that his helper was a woman .
2 She 'd seen no trace of anyone else in the village , and no sign of anyone along the afternoon 's walk .
3 I 'd seen no sign of Mala , but I had n't expected it , since she 'd been right about us being less obvious if we were apart .
4 President Bush defended his administration 's cautious response , saying he had seen no facts since Tuesday which ‘ would have made me make a different decision ’ .
5 Though the film was running I had seen no staff in the cinema for hours .
6 The next day the Lapp arrived for his drink , but we had seen no evidence of a trail .
7 It was Grizel Huntley 's own view that her brother had not been fooled at all but had been charmed and diverted by a dashing girl thirty years his junior , and had seen no reason at all why she should not have a share of his considerable estate when that left a very decent down-setting for his niece as well .
8 At least I had seen no others .
9 On my visit to Wenceslas Square the evening before , I had seen no sign of the corso , that ritual evening promenade which is found all through the Mediterranean world and up into Northern Italy and Central Yugoslavia .
10 Since coming into the forest she had seen no further sign of the beast .
11 So far during three days and nights they had seen no sign of a human dwelling and since their escape from the verderers had crossed no man-made paths .
12 So far during three days and nights they had seen no sign of a human dwelling and since their escape from the verderers had crossed no man-made paths .
13 So far as she could recall , she had seen no reviews but then , of course , she knew she could easily have missed them in the interstices of choosing wallpaper , driving down to Hillmarden , overseeing decorators , interviewing nannies , buying a layette and all the hundred and one other things with which she was continually being confronted .
14 As the cameras and microphones were trained on him , he told the colonel that HE had seen no evidence of stone-throwing .
15 A third of its men were new recruits who had seen no fighting , almost another third had seen as little as the Colonel , while only the rest , like d'Alembord , had actually faced a French army in open battle .
16 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 .
17 For the past three years they had shared her tedious exile on her father 's estate , where she had seen no one but her brothers and aunts .
18 Gerald Barry had seen no such weapons but had observed single interrupters " being struck on the head , in the stomach , and all over the body with a complete absence of restraint " .
19 They had seen no tracks and sighted nothing in the land below them , which Ratagan said was unusual for deer were not uncommon here as well as hill foxes and hares .
20 I therefore associated towns with tin roofs and thatched huts ; in Jibuti , Berbera and Aden I had seen no memorable buildings .
21 She had seen no reason to abandon it when she came to Medewich two years ago , even though she might now have been able to afford a car .
22 The workers in the 34,000 co-operatives , most of them in rural areas , had seen no benefit from the reforms of the late 1980s and were experiencing deteriorating living standards .
23 A Reuters report on Feb. 25 , however , said that refugees arriving from Kuwait in al-Ruweished , Jordan , had said that they had seen no evidence of Iraqi troops engaging in systematic atrocities or executing civilians .
24 It had to be soon , it had to be quick , and so far he had seen no way of achieving it .
25 He had seen no signs of His existence in his journey with the Doctor .
26 As he had seen no change in her , so she could see little difference in him .
27 Alan Cooksey , deputy chief inspecting officer of railways , told a fatal accident inquiry in Glasgow that when he was first presented with a ‘ thumbnail sketch ’ of the proposed lay-out he had seen no reason to delay it .
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