Example sentences of "[verb] never see [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |
| 2 | Angalo had found a pebble that was almost the right shape to attach to a twig with strips torn off his coat ; he 'd never seen a stone axe in his life , but he had a definite feeling that there were useful things that could be done with a stone tied to the end of a stick . |
| 3 | He also agreed he 'd never seen a skull fracture caused by a blow to the nose . |
| 4 | Having never seen a swing bridge before I wondered how the boats were going to get under it but I was soon to find out . |
| 5 | I 've er , thank you , I 've never seen a fox hunt erm I 've er I think once er , once I got along to Cutts Close where the Boxing Day meet occurs and I can well accept that this Boxing Day meet draws a larger crowd of people from Oakham than any other activity through the year . |
| 6 | well I 've never seen a coffee set |
| 7 | I 've never seen a motor bike with a trailer |
| 8 | ‘ I 've never seen a woman fight like that , ’ he began again . |
| 9 | I 've never seen a chewing gum advert for them before |
| 10 | I 've seen a lot o' different things and that like ; but I 've never seen an owd cow dragging a tumbril ! ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had never seen a credit card , and indeed he was not looking at one now . |
| 14 | It is possible that the young Evelyn , who had never seen a Court masque , was easily impressed . |
| 15 | At first she could n't believe it ; she had never seen a man cry before . |
| 16 | We had never seen a soffit ventilator before , and had only a vague idea about dry-verge ridging , but the excellent catalogues and leaflets provided most of the instructions we needed . |
| 17 | I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest . |
| 18 | Amaranth , thank God , looked like the sort of woman who had never seen a vacuum cleaner in her life . |
| 19 | Being as Liverpool had never seen a skate comp before , the atmosphere at Dan-Z 's was riotous — even though it was only a mini ramp . |
| 20 | Melanie had never seen a dog belch before . |
| 21 | He paused in the doorway , because it was rare to see the High Queen without at least a dozen courtiers ; certainly he had never seen the Sun Chamber like this , bathed in the glow from the dying day , alive with the strong , pure magic of the Purple Hour , the huge crystal windows that looked out over all Ireland ablaze with light . |
| 22 | She had never seen the time machine looking so ordinary . |
| 23 | When questioned , Mr Bence said he had never seen the trophy cabinet in his life , and was at a loss to explain how it came to be in the director 's Portakabin . |
| 24 | Phyllis had never seen the check-out girl before . |
| 25 | So customers spent their money on twelve-inch discs instead , and in fact I have never seen a twenty-inch Neophone record . |
| 26 | ‘ I have never seen a rain storm like it — it must have lasted more than 30 minutes . |
| 27 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 28 | ‘ I have been a nurse for ten years but I have never seen a bullet wound . |