Example sentences of "never seen [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact it had been blown away on a gust of wind as soon as the crate was opened in Liverpool and was never seen again . |
| 2 | Armadail Swift , your great grandfather , went there too , before he took that trip in the giant balloon and was never seen again . |
| 3 | He tricked our neighbours to sit on it and they were never seen again . |
| 4 | Tricot had investigated intelligence fiascoes before including the kidnapping by French intelligence agents in 1965 of Ben Barka , an Algerian left-winger , who was never seen again and was presumably murdered by them . |
| 5 | The Emperor was never seen again . |
| 6 | He was never seen again . |
| 7 | She took one step forwards and shouted , ‘ Yes , I 'm in the middle of my ball period , if you want to know , ’ and the brandy slopped out of her glass and dropped into the part of the carpet that was orange and was never seen again . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This custom ended suddenly when a witch took the opportunity to kidnap several of the children , who were never seen again . |
| 10 | After phoning his wife Sheila to tell her he had arrived safely , the computer boss was never seen again . |
| 11 | Nicola was never seen again . |
| 12 | Adam , among his computers , reflected on the coypu man , whose bill he had later paid , but whom he had never seen again . |
| 13 | Snowy was never seen again . |
| 14 | Would it not be convenient for you if he was never seen again ? ’ |
| 15 | A VET clipped the wings of a valuable parrot to stop it escaping — but when the owner got it home it flew off and was never seen again . |
| 16 | Those who seek power for power 's sake are never seen again . |
| 17 | Needless to say , it was never seen again . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She 'd heard sickening tales of barbarous Gestapo torture , and of prisoners who were never seen again . |
| 20 | Then she sank out of sight and was never seen again . |
| 21 | As for the mysterious little girl , she was never seen again . |
| 22 | Narcissus was never seen again . |
| 23 | The Rebecca Sims returned safely , but the other ship was never seen again . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They would be taken away one day , like the seven hundred cans of dogfood , or the fifty television sets , and never seen again . |
| 26 | He was never seen again . |
| 27 | Their van was found at Manchester Airport the following day and the couple were never seen again . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , some are never seen again . ’ |
| 29 | I 've never been to Germany since , never seen anymore of it than I saw from the air that day in 1945 , and I ca n't say I 've ever wanted to . |
| 30 | It occurred to Wycliffe with a sense of surprise that of the three brothers he had spoken only to one ; he had never seen either Matthew or Alfred in life , yet he needed to know them . |