Example sentences of "[verb] never see a [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 | I 'd never seen a weapon like that before — only military rifles . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've never seen a scene like it and never want to again , ’ said Mr Yoxall as he surveyed the carnage . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've never seen a sky like that in my life before , ’ Susan said softly , wonder in her voice . |
| 6 | Now I 've never seen a provision like that put forward for legislation before . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've never seen a lugworm like it ’ |
| 9 | Was it you probably wo n't believe this but I 've never seen a programme of Spitting Image . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've never seen a report like this . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , I 've never seen an android like that before . |
| 12 | Elizabeth had never seen a ghost in her life . |
| 13 | She had never seen a ghost in her life . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A creature who had never seen a world outside this Castle . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In his second letter he wrote , ‘ I have never seen a cradle without thinking of a grave ; the sight of a naked woman makes me imagine her skeleton . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I have never seen a fracture of the anterior fossa of the skull due to a blow on the nose … |
| 19 | I teach students who are often illiterate , who do not know how to use a hand-held calculator , who have never seen a film with subtitles or read a classic work of literature , and who can not spell even the name of important people in their field ( for example , psychology majors who spell Freud as Frued ) . |
| 20 | We agree with MacGowan and Reeves that the half life may be inaccurate if it is calculated from only two values ; but perhaps that is why they have never seen a patient with normal renal function in whom the half life is as long as 7.6 hours , since in clinical practice two measurements are all one has to go on . |
| 21 | I have never seen a hunt in progress , although I recall vaguely as a child being taken to watch a Meet when I was visiting relatives in Piercebridge . |
| 22 | You have never seen a woman in her peignoir before ? ’ |
| 23 | It 's the same as that place in Australia where they have n't seen rain for seventeen years , I mean there 's children who are grown up now at college have never seen a spot of rain , I 'd hate that I 'd rather have our , sometimes dismal climate . |
| 24 | However , I have never seen a copy of this circulated at the subdivision level at any location I have worked ; and outside force HQ the availability of any research or analytic literature on policing falls off dramatically . |
| 25 | ‘ I have never seen a cut in education spending , ’ he said . |
| 26 | I have never seen an avocet in Cornwall , but I 'm told that this rare and unique bird has been spotted on these marshes . |