Example sentences of "ever see the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many ex-servicemen had given up all hope of ever seeing the tribute after the Ministry of Defence warned supplies could dry up following the break-up of the USSR . |
| 2 | If they are , your phone call will merely be a slight irritant , but if there is no appropriate slot at that particular time your call could cause enough irritation to prevent the material ever seeing the light of day . |
| 3 | As for the boy , well , he never lived with his father , never saw him , and Pietr refused ever to see the child . |
| 4 | It will be more difficult than ever to see the composer as he really was , and is . |
| 5 | Both are out of print and according to his publisher ( the wacky John Muir of Todmorden ) are unlikely ever to see the light of day again . |
| 6 | As well as inventing the thin crisp biscuit that bears his name , Sylvester Graham was also the author of one of the most amusing condemnations of sex ever to see the light of day . |
| 7 | You hardly ever seen the screws or nowt . |
| 8 | Arthur Leopold of County Cork had taken the picture , and the first time Ellie had tiptoed into the bedroom she had stood for a long time staring at the photograph , because it was the first time she had ever seen the likeness of her dead mother . |
| 9 | However the Phoenix Guard never divulge their secrets and no one has ever seen the Chamber of Days and lived . |
| 10 | ‘ Have you ever seen the sun 's rays streaking through a stained glass window ? ’ |
| 11 | Have you , have you ever seen the expression on a man 's face when he takes the out , do a crap , stand up and find it 's not there ? |
| 12 | I do n't think I 've ever seen the bathroom there . |
| 13 | Ever seen the film called A Man For All Seasons ? |
| 14 | It was the first time that I had ever seen the inside of a police cell . |
| 15 | Consequently , no-one has ever seen the brain of one of those early mammals . |
| 16 | Have you ever seen the type of thing ? |
| 17 | Have you ever seen the world so clearly ? |
| 18 | Nobody had ever seen the Manager look so pale and tetchy as the morning after . |
| 19 | Have you ever seen the like of these , sir ? ’ |
| 20 | I ca n't remember when I 've ever seen the like of it . ’ |
| 21 | The Marshal could recall no hard and fast rule about it but he could n't think that he had ever seen the pipers during Lent . |
| 22 | Only a few select people have ever seen the mummy of Tutankhamun . |
| 23 | Have you ever seen the effect of that ? |
| 24 | No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles . |
| 25 | I mean , everybody who goes to the RSC by and large only ever sees the piece once , do n't they ? |
| 26 | Thus would be decided whether or not C.N.L. should ever see the documents . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , Katie , that we would ever see the day … . ’ |
| 28 | That I should ever see the day … ’ |
| 29 | Will the world ever see the likes of such a man again ? |
| 30 | But if you swim only during the day , you will hardly ever see the organisms that have created this astounding scene . |