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Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] never see the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	I had never seen the church so effortlessly packed .
2	I 've never seen the sea .
3	‘ I 've never seen the church so crowded for a funeral , ’ said William 's nan proudly , though there was a hint of suspicion in the eyes that gazed around the congregation .
4	I 've never seen the play , I have no experience of the production .
5	I 've never seen the film .
6	‘ I 've never seen the point of keeping piles of the stuff , ’ she said .
7	Desmond said , ‘ I 've never seen the lad .
8	‘ I 've never seen the Lad of the Skins … well , I 've never wanted to .
9	I mean , cor blimey , I 've never seen the woman or the kid before in my life !
10	‘ Oh , me dear gawd , ’ gasped the young woman , ‘ I 've never seen the like of that , it 's a gun . ’
11	I 've never seen the President of the D T I look so harassed and frightened for his own future .
12	Although Martin has said that some bass players like to be able to significantly alter their sound while they are actually playing on stage , I 've never seen the need to have all the gubbins on the bass to do that , then have lots more gubbins on the amp to do more of the same .
13	I 've never seen the abbreviation before you see .
14	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 .
15	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 !
16	Even today , I have never seen the bar empty .
17	I have never seen the result of this operation .
18	‘ You are n't afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born ? ’ asked Miss Havisham .
19	That fucking bitch would wish she 'd never seen the book or him or anything to do with it .
20	Jay 's hand played a sonata she 'd never seen the score for .
21	‘ You 've never seen the boy ? ’
22	‘ You 've never seen the pool ?
23	As far as she could remember , she had never seen the man before , he was no friend of Faith 's .
24	And she had never seen the jeep travel so quickly .
25	She had never seen the time machine looking so ordinary .
26	A long and somewhat rambling discussion followed during which the judge effectively tried to persuade the barrister that he must get up before the jury in order to say , ‘ in terms that the remark that you made was a remark which should not have been made and apologise , and you can say in terms that one of the reasons why it was a remark which should not have been made was that you had never seen the document ; you did not know what it contained . ’
27	There are few places on the globe unmapped , but there are millions of people in the world who have never seen the sea , or mountains , or a desert , or a snow-covered landscape , and many of them want to experience such places because the unknown is one of the great pleasures of travel .
28	Even those who have never seen the ocean , who live forever landlocked or are blind , would , according to Wordsworth , still have sight of that immortal sea .
29	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 .
30	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 .