Example sentences of "[verb] never before seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were north of the border recently for the Scottish Music Show , before I 'd had time to look round myself , people were rushing over to describe a monster the like of which they 'd never before seen . |
| 2 | She 'd never before seen a carpet so thick that it showed vacuuming lines , like a lawn . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never before seen a rabbit with either a pocket , or a watch to take out of it , ’ she thought . |
| 4 | I 've never before seen cadaveric spasm in a case of homicidal manual throttling , and it 's interesting . |
| 5 | Faussone talks about ‘ the way we bent our elbows ’ — an expression ( for eating or drinking ) which I have heard spoken in English , but which I had never before seen written down in a book . |
| 6 | We visited Blackwell 's , such a bookshop as I had never before seen , and Vivien left with armfuls of books , and I , happy with one modest Penguin . |
| 7 | She had never before seen or felt such vitality . |
| 8 | Matilda had never before seen a boy , or anyone else for that matter , held aloft by his ears alone . |
| 9 | I had never before seen any Benedict 's sister do that . |
| 10 | I had never before seen such a soft light in those once proud eyes , or felt such a friendly touch of her once cold hand . |
| 11 | His father turned toward him with an earnestness that Jack had never before seen in his face . |
| 12 | Lorrimer had eaten practically nothing , had drunk less , pushing his glass almost petulantly aside and fixing his great smouldering eyes on Domenica as if he had never before seen a woman . |
| 13 | He had never before seen man and woman regard , consider and touch each other as man with man . |