Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] never see " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's so much good stuff that has never seen the light of day . |
| 2 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |
| 3 | Many of the residents in homes for the elderly have no family , and many that do never see them from one year to the next . |
| 4 | ‘ Them stuck in there , all they can see is bars , an' us saying ‘ Look at them , are n't they sweet ’ , and them with legs that can run a hundred miles and skin made for boiling heat standing there in cages in rain and snow and hailstorms and having babies that 've never seen the bush and the jungle and the step — ’ |
| 5 | I have run in more than 30 cities , including places that had never seen a runner before . |
| 6 | He was oddly sluggish and lazy , more like a leery veteran than a horse that had never seen a racecourse . |
| 7 | They yeah we used to call in Tex and he , he could n't believe that there were old people living in Walsall at the time in this country the size of England , and people living in Walsall that had never seen the sea in their lives , and this guy coming from America could n't believe this . |
| 8 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 9 | He 's conscious that safety-critical items such as tyres and brakes must n't be skimped on , but he 's not overly concerned about sticking to the recommended 6000-mile service schedule ; so far the Sierra has on average been serviced every 13,500 miles and has never seen the inside of a Ford dealer 's workshop . |
| 10 | So the women got Anna to open her door and the prince was pushed forward and asked her pardon and promised never to see the French girl again and they had a great drama and Anna consented to be reconciled . |
| 11 | And Ive never seen a ball hit from that far out , rise in a straight line ( showing the power behind it ) . |
| 12 | She felt intensely sorry for poor Brian , living as he did with anxiety and insecurity , and had never seen the necessity of channelling any of her pity back into her own parched reserves . |
| 13 | It was new to these parts and had never seen nomes before . |
| 14 | Mrs Swales 's friends Liz Metcalfe and Gail O'Keefe said they were with her on the night and had never seen her assaulting Mrs Wilson . |
| 15 | Everyone was shown what went on inside this large factory — familiar to us but a curiousity to those whose relations work here , and have never seen it before . ’ |
| 16 | He had been born and bred on the river , but had never seen anything like it before . |
| 17 | Since then she had sometimes looked for the moon again in that dark , usually empty space but had never seen it . |
| 18 | That winter there was another sinister addition to the Germans and the Repubblichini in Fontanellato : Mongols — a people we had heard of but had never seen — who had been taken prisoner on the Russian front and were now attached to the German army . |
| 19 | Mr Hill said : ‘ He had six years experience as a mental nurse but had never seen anybody so violent as the defendant . ’ |