Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] never [vb pp] [pron] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1	Catriona had never seen anyone like her .
2	Rhoda had to give up work , and no sickness benefit was available since Ken had never let her succumb to the system and pay national insurance .
3	Jane had never heard him speak with such enthusiasm about anybody before .
4	Ruth had never heard him speak with any seriousness before , had hardly seen him without a smile on his face .
5	Ruth had never seen anyone look so disappointed .
6	Botrytis had taken the trusses before any fruit had set , A.D.A.S. had never seen anything like it .
7	Piper had never seen him look so vulnerable .
8	Granada had never seen anything like it .
9	There was a marble-topped table in the centre of the flagged floor , bearing , like an altar , a symmetrical arrangement of clothes brushes and men 's toiletries that Vic had never seen anyone disturb since he came to Pringle 's .
10	He could smell in imagination what Liz had never let him know in actuality — the smell of sour milk and dirty nappies , could picture the dreadful lack of peace and privacy .
11	Rufus had never seen anyone do that before , though he had seen it in pictures on seaside postcards .
12	Dan had never seen anything like her outside of Berkeley picture house .
13	Carver had never seen him smile .
14	Sarah had never seen anything look so lovely , and she danced from one end of the table to the other to admire it .
15	Libby had never seen anyone eat that way before .
16	The village of Little Coxwell in Oxfordshire has never seen anything like it .

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