Example sentences of "[verb] never see [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most likely a first-time father has never seen a person in such pain and it 's also the person he loves most . |
| 2 | Claire has never seen a man in a leopardskin jockstrap before . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There 's so much good stuff that has never seen the light of day . |
| 5 | I 'd never seen a weapon like that before — only military rifles . |
| 6 | Jay 's hand played a sonata she 'd never seen the score for . |
| 7 | And saying that , in the last three years I since discovered , and it was quite difficult to , which I did find , that there was alternative erm therapists , which was lots of groups that were going on and once I got into it erm the , it opened up a new , you know I ne I 've never saw the light at the tunnel that is shining brightly now ! |
| 8 | ‘ I 've never seen a scene like it and never want to again , ’ said Mr Yoxall as he surveyed the carnage . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've never seen a sky like that in my life before , ’ Susan said softly , wonder in her voice . |
| 10 | Now I 've never seen a provision like that put forward for legislation before . |
| 11 | And I 've never seen a case in which there was a fist fight in front of the cinema and they pulled the movie because of it . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've never seen a lugworm like it ’ |
| 13 | Was it you probably wo n't believe this but I 've never seen a programme of Spitting Image . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've never seen a report like this . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I 've never seen an android like that before . |
| 16 | I 've never seen the sort of breathtaking squalor I witnessed there but give them a day when their neighbourhood is shown to be worth the world running through it , gratefully accepting water and candy from them at the roadside , and it 's amazing the way mutual mistrust can disappear . |
| 17 | I 've never seen the President of the D T I look so harassed and frightened for his own future . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've never seen the Lad of the Skins … well , I 've never wanted to . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've never seen the point of keeping piles of the stuff , ’ she said . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , me dear gawd , ’ gasped the young woman , ‘ I 've never seen the like of that , it 's a gun . ’ |
| 21 | Elizabeth had never seen a ghost in her life . |
| 22 | She had never seen a ghost in her life . |
| 23 | As she got closer to them Julia thought that she had never seen a man with such brilliant dark eyes or so saturnine and yet handsome a face . |
| 24 | A creature who had never seen a world outside this Castle . |
| 25 | For one thing , the score was by Rodgers and Hammerstein who had never seen a pantomime in their lives — such things were totally unknown on the other side of the Atlantic — and wrote music and lyrics for the show which fitted very well indeed in their repertoire that began with Oklahoma ! and went on , via such epics as South Pacific and The King And I , all the way to The Sound of Music . |
| 26 | ‘ The Black fellows of the Upper Hunter told me ’ , wrote Gould in a letter to E. P. Ramsay in Sydney in 1866 , ‘ that the little Melopsittacus undulatus had come to meet me , for they had never seen the bird in that district until the year I arrived . ’ |
| 27 | She felt intensely sorry for poor Brian , living as he did with anxiety and insecurity , and had never seen the necessity of channelling any of her pity back into her own parched reserves . |
| 28 | He had never seen the interior of a church before . |
| 29 | They yeah we used to call in Tex and he , he could n't believe that there were old people living in Walsall at the time in this country the size of England , and people living in Walsall that had never seen the sea in their lives , and this guy coming from America could n't believe this . |
| 30 | He had never seen the like of it . |