Example sentences of "[verb] never see a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she has never seen a real hummingbird . |
| 2 | I never went to one , I 'd never seen a live band that actually wrote their own stuff . |
| 3 | She 'd never seen anyone so transfixed , but then he 'd never seen a naked woman before . |
| 4 | It was as if he 'd never seen a naked woman . |
| 5 | On 24 May 1988 , the last bit of meat went out the door , and an hour later I felt I 'd never seen a T-bone steak ! ’ |
| 6 | I put my hands over my eyes to shut out my fears : I 'd never seen a dead person before . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've never seen a real cow , ’ he said to himself . |
| 8 | Rumour has it he 's getting wilder and wilder as time goes on — and I 've never seen a wild man before . |
| 9 | ‘ You know I 've never seen a dead body before , ’ Laura murmured . |
| 10 | He took to pacing the streets of London , very often in the poorer areas , in all weathers , alone , seldom speaking to anyone but staring , staring as if he had never seen a poor person in his life before . |
| 11 | I had never seen a happy jogger and I was not ill . |
| 12 | Many of the 2,000-plus troops were teenagers who had never seen a dead body before , let alone large-scale massacres . |
| 13 | In Jamaica I had never seen a white person ; to us youngsters they were an unknown quantity . |
| 14 | Lucien had never seen an Ixmaritian priestess in the flesh before , but he recognised her robes from illustrations in the sacred texts of Paradouze : a long green gown of soft linen covered by a darker green tunic of embroidered , stiffened cotton . |
| 15 | To see that this is the case , annotate each term below to say whether it belongs to the typical register of the birthday card or the register of the legal contract ( even if you have never seen a legal contract you can probably do this ) . |
| 16 | I have never seen a male manager in tears . |