Example sentences of "[vb base] never see a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've never seen a blacker car in my life ! |
| 2 | ‘ I 've never seen a real cow , ’ he said to himself . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never seen a quicker boy . |
| 4 | Rumour has it he 's getting wilder and wilder as time goes on — and I 've never seen a wild man before . |
| 5 | The XJ speeds north over the road-bridge , no lights or siren on but we clip along and it 's the smoothest fucking motorway journey I 've ever had ; just a total hassle-free zone creaming along around the ton with no worries about unmarked police cars and hoo-wee the traffic in front of us just fucking evaporates ; man , just brakes ( and wobbles sometimes as the guy probably gets the cold sweats and the wo-where'd-my-stomach-go ? feeling ) , swings meekly left and brakes again ; you 've never seen a beefy BMW 5-series duck in so fast in your life ; might as well all be driving 2CVs . |
| 6 | ‘ You know I 've never seen a dead body before , ’ Laura murmured . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | I have never seen a male manager in tears . |