Example sentences of "never [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the ‘ sting ’ ( never easily seen from England and the northern United States , and not at all from Scotland ) Lesath and Shaula give the impression of being a very wide pair , but they are not associated ; of the two Lesath is much the more luminous and remote . |
| 2 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 3 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 4 | He realized with a stab of regret he had never once seen her face clearly , and if he went back to seek her out he would n't know her for sure among the many daughters of the chief . |
| 5 | She had never once seen him cry , not even when the baby died . |
| 6 | I never once saw her drunk and think it may have been water in the evenings too , half the time . |
| 7 | ‘ I never once saw him get upset or angry ’ , said Ken Bradshaw , one of his circle of disciples . |
| 8 | Apart from my fourpence a week , his brothers likewise never ever saw a penny from him . |
| 9 | Well when you all went , as you all left , when the last lot of redundancies were made , I said I 'm not paying no more union , Judith come over about the union meeting , I said I 'm not going to the meeting Judith and I said I want to come out of the union I 'm not paying any more , I said I ca n't afford ten pound a month for crap , well me and Jan had a big barney over it cos I never got on with her anyway and we had a big fucking row about it , she said the union this , the union that , I said where were the unions with my mates , they were n't in damn site , they were never there , we never saw one union representative from the day Audrey got done and we never ever saw erm till the last one got done , I said so do n't you tell me about the union I said they did fuck all , they were n't even here , so I said I do n't want to pay the union , and I said do n't tell me what to do Jane , I said what I do with me money is up to me I said get me out the union and get me out now , and then they all started , they all wanted to come out of it then , oh Maureen I think I might but what would Debbie say , I said Maureen do you ask her for a shit ? |
| 10 | They had never ever seen that in all their lives before . |
| 11 | They had never ever seen it ! |
| 12 | never ever seen it like this |
| 13 | Are there events taking place that we will never ever see because they 're so far away , or maybe they 're taking place in such a way that they 're moving away faster than the light is travelling in our direction ? |
| 14 | se , we never ever see a policeman . |
| 15 | Faussone talks about ‘ the way we bent our elbows ’ — an expression ( for eating or drinking ) which I have heard spoken in English , but which I had never before seen written down in a book . |
| 16 | The sense of its otherness , he wrote , just as I wanted it , an alien object , one never before seen on our planet , not quite animal , not quite mineral , not quite vegetable , yet familiar , familiar . |
| 17 | We visited Blackwell 's , such a bookshop as I had never before seen , and Vivien left with armfuls of books , and I , happy with one modest Penguin . |
| 18 | ‘ BMS 's intercooled turbo diesel engine combines economy , performance and refinement in a way never before seen in a diesel ’ |
| 19 | When we were north of the border recently for the Scottish Music Show , before I 'd had time to look round myself , people were rushing over to describe a monster the like of which they 'd never before seen . |
| 20 | She had never before seen or felt such vitality . |
| 21 | Matilda had never before seen a boy , or anyone else for that matter , held aloft by his ears alone . |
| 22 | I had never before seen any Benedict 's sister do that . |
| 23 | Its great attraction is that , because it was organised in conjunction with the Tretyakov gallery in Moscow and the Russian museum in St Petersburg , it contains many works never before seen in the West , some from far-flung areas of the CIS . |
| 24 | She had been truly moved by herself , by her own watery image , by her grotesquely elongated legs , her tapering waist , and above all by the undersides of her breasts , never before seen . |
| 25 | You may think as I often do : has the client never before seen his consumers ? |
| 26 | ‘ I 've never before seen a rabbit with either a pocket , or a watch to take out of it , ’ she thought . |
| 27 | I had never before seen such a soft light in those once proud eyes , or felt such a friendly touch of her once cold hand . |
| 28 | His father turned toward him with an earnestness that Jack had never before seen in his face . |
| 29 | I 've never before seen cadaveric spasm in a case of homicidal manual throttling , and it 's interesting . |
| 30 | Lorrimer had eaten practically nothing , had drunk less , pushing his glass almost petulantly aside and fixing his great smouldering eyes on Domenica as if he had never before seen a woman . |