Example sentences of "never seen the " in BNC.

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1 Jay 's hand played a sonata she 'd never seen the score for .
2 Because of this , he had never seen the Oxford and Cambridge boat race until this year .
3 As far as she could remember , she had never seen the man before , he was no friend of Faith 's .
4 Even today , I have never seen the bar empty .
5 There are few places on the globe unmapped , but there are millions of people in the world who have never seen the sea , or mountains , or a desert , or a snow-covered landscape , and many of them want to experience such places because the unknown is one of the great pleasures of travel .
6 Even those who have never seen the ocean , who live forever landlocked or are blind , would , according to Wordsworth , still have sight of that immortal sea .
7 ‘ You 've never seen the pool ?
8 During the 30 years I have lived in the US , as a student and university teacher , I have never seen the large carbuncles and boils described by Robert Mandeville ( ’ The natural history of boils ’ , 20 January , p164 ) , although they were common during my school days and army service in England from 1944 to 1952 and I suffered from them myself on three occasions .
9 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 .
10 ‘ Them stuck in there , all they can see is bars , an' us saying ‘ Look at them , are n't they sweet ’ , and them with legs that can run a hundred miles and skin made for boiling heat standing there in cages in rain and snow and hailstorms and having babies that 've never seen the bush and the jungle and the step — ’
11 I had never seen the church so effortlessly packed .
12 There 's so much good stuff that has never seen the light of day .
13 Although Martin has said that some bass players like to be able to significantly alter their sound while they are actually playing on stage , I 've never seen the need to have all the gubbins on the bass to do that , then have lots more gubbins on the amp to do more of the same .
14 Betty had never seen the baby , blamed herself for its death , and was still grieving .
15 He had never seen the interior of a church before .
16 ‘ You 've never seen the boy ? ’
17 Nigel had never seen the film and , as it was shown rather late , we had recorded it and intended to watch it that afternoon .
18 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 …
19 Phyllis had never seen the check-out girl before .
20 And she had never seen the Pacific Ocean .
21 ‘ I 've never seen the other two wearing them , but Kurt always has one on … wonder if he ever changes it ? ’
22 For the Archdeacon , who had , in fact , never seen the Venetian Lido , had been reared in the Close at Salisbury and , making some allowance for scale , had known from childhood exactly what a church should look like .
23 She realized she had never seen the servants before except as part of the backdrop of Summer Lodge , now she saw that they were part of her life , real people with loves and loyalties especially to her and it made her feel suddenly humble .
24 ‘ Oh , me dear gawd , ’ gasped the young woman , ‘ I 've never seen the like of that , it 's a gun . ’
25 Desmond said , ‘ I 've never seen the lad .
26 Sharpe had fought the French for over twenty years , yet he had never seen the Emperor and , all unbidden , a sudden and childish image of a man with cloven tail , sharp horns and demonic fangs stalked Sharpe 's fears that were made worse by the Emperor 's real reputation as a soldier of genius whose presence on a battlefield was worth a whole corps of men .
27 Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high .
28 Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high .
29 The year before , I had never seen the mink I was filming return without an eel , usually within 15 minutes .
30 If you 've never seen the Tan Hill on a bleary winter 's day when winds are driving wet sleet over the hellhole of Sleightholme Moor and the sky and the land are welded together in one sullen , sodden grey , then you 've missed a treat .
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