Example sentences of "[pers pn] never see [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I will try either Lady Jones or Lord Darnford , if they 'll permit you to take refuge with them , for I never saw sweetness and innocence like yours .
2 I never saw Kelling or Salthouse churches , or any sign of the coast at all , and I landed up sailing right over the ridge called Blakeney Overfalls , wind over tide , a filthy sea and virtually nil visibility .
3 Down the decades , I never saw Dignam give a performance that was n't true to his classical text .
4 I never saw Moscow in the heyday of the great parades of May and November .
5 I never saw Laura working at the business .
6 Based on that I have to give it to Mel cos he could also bend the ball around the wall to score — I never saw Lorimer do that ( he did nt have to ! ) .
7 I do n't remember Heighway running down the wing , and I never saw Roger Hunt hit the back of the net .
8 Rhodes , however , dismisses such comparisons : ‘ I never saw Colin Bland , but from everything I 've heard he 'll be one level higher than any other fielder , just like Bradman and the rest when it comes to batting .
9 The pub was a two storeyed building , with a stable at the side although I never saw horses there .
10 I never saw Leeds live in those days ( living in london — being a whippersnapper — and noone else in the family into football ) .
11 I never saw Mme Guérigny in the garden .
12 Would I one day show people this jacket and say that it had been a lovely afternoon in Central Park when he gave it to me and , in closing , would I say that as he disappeared into the trees , I never saw Oscar Wilde again ?
13 No , I never saw lads er , er , the game that seemed most popular with us , I do n't know whether you have , it 's nothing only really hopping across the road .
14 In five years I never saw Harriet the worse for drink .
15 ( Oh , by the way , I never saw Agrippa at these banquets .
16 As for the free kick well I never saw MOTD so I ca n't comment , though I can well believe Speed did f- up , he definitely had an off day .
17 I never saw hands like them .
18 I never saw men with such a small desire to fight . ’
19 These hints were followed up by many gentlemen : and I think I never saw Mr Loudon more pleased than when a highly respectable gardener once told him that he was living in a new and most comfortable cottage , which his master had built for him ; a noble marquess , who said that he should never have thought of it , but for the observations in Mr Loudon 's Gardener 's Magazine , as they made him consider whether the cottage was comfortable or not , and that , as soon as he did so , he perceived its deficiencies .
20 If I do n't put you safely on the outer side of Parfois , may I never see Isabel again .
21 You think I never see junkies in the wards ?
22 Of the last decision he says : ‘ Most of the winter I never see daylight .
23 She said she never saw Newton kick the other player in the face , and she never saw anyone 's boot come in contact with Mr Hallam 's face .
24 She never saw Gazzer last night .
25 She never saw Billy .
26 She certainly needed a break from Glyn , and if she never saw Mr Edmund Clarke again it would be too soon .
27 That night she cried herself to sleep wondering where she had gone wrong and thinking she could not bear it if she never saw Edward again .
28 But , just as she never saw Candy 's baby , Sally was denied that , too .
29 Apart from domino afternoons , she never sees friends , never goes out , never goes to meetings .
30 Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped .
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