Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] never see a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Anabelle had never seen a turtle before , and thought him a kindly creature . |
| 3 | It so happened that Hazel had never seen a crow . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Most likely a first-time father has never seen a person in such pain and it 's also the person he loves most . |
| 6 | Kevin had never seen a nursery before . |
| 7 | Of course Nebbins had never seen a tractor before , he wondered what it was . |
| 8 | A very young man has shot himself and ‘ we ’ ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ‘ cavalcade ’ ( ‘ our ladies had never seen a suicide ’ ) to view the corpse ; ‘ everything 's so boring ’ — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words — ‘ one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ’ ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new-born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death . |
| 9 | Claire has never seen a man in a leopardskin jockstrap before . |
| 10 | Mr Dods , 30 , said : ‘ Some of these children have never seen a cow being milked or anything on a farm . |
| 11 | Melanie had never seen a dog belch before . |
| 12 | It was a fascinating glimpse of a people who in the sixteenth century had never seen a wheel or a sea-going ship , had never faced an armoured knight on horseback or the fire power of crossbows and guns , but whose roads and lines of communication through the incredible terrain of the Andes , whose methods of agriculture by irrigation and whose whole political set-up , so close to what we know as Communism , was in some ways more advanced than that of their conquerors . |
| 13 | Elizabeth had never seen a ghost in her life . |
| 14 | Vologsky had never seen a need to question Kirov 's authenticity , or to probe him for details of his mother and father . |