Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] [adv] see " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of three comes as an abstraction from many sets of three objects : although no-one has ever seen three , children can see three cars , three people , three umbrellas , three miscellaneous objects , and so on , and eventually they will understand the ‘ threeness of three ’ . |
| 2 | No-one has ever seen said film ( except David Quantick ) . |
| 3 | Consequently , no-one has ever seen the brain of one of those early mammals . |
| 4 | You do n't suddenly go blind for the duration of a ‘ phone call and are , therefore , prey to all sorts of visual distractions — people walking past the window , someone coming in to see you and so on . |
| 5 | I ‘ d have been happier if someone had actually seen the woman down there over the weekend . |
| 6 | In many ways that does tend to be a common occurrence on new shows when nobody has yet seen the type of programme the Producer and Story Editor have in mind . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm afraid nobody has ever seen him in church . |
| 8 | ‘ Because nobody has ever seen the Dark Ireland , and nobody has ever visited it , ’ he said . |
| 9 | After all , nobody had ever seen Jackie Tiptoe cry . |
| 10 | There was a gleam in his eyes nobody had ever seen before . |
| 11 | Another regular said : ‘ Everyone knew about the twins — but nobody had ever seen them . |
| 12 | In Cambridge she quickly established herself as a cult figure of mysterious portent : she claimed to be in love with her brother , whom nobody had ever seen , and went in for gnomic utterances and baroque clutter . |
| 13 | Nobody had ever seen a baby before , and when the mother saw his little body and his little feet and hands , and his little cunning face , she thought ‘ why he just looks like a little man . ’ |
| 14 | Nobody had ever seen the Manager look so pale and tetchy as the morning after . |
| 15 | One looks firstly to see whether irrelevant considerations have been taken into account ; if they have not the decision may still be struck down if it is unreasonable in the substantive sense . |
| 16 | Deacon 's structure involves two complementary shapes joined at right angles ; shapes that one has never seen before but one recognises as familiar . |
| 17 | ‘ No one has ever seen anything like that before , ’ Dr Saral said . |
| 18 | My own view is that scientific theories usually start out by assuming the existence of entities that no one has ever seen or touched — genes , atoms , photons , viruses . |
| 19 | Oceanic crust that no one has ever seen before ! |
| 20 | ( Despite what they may say , everyone DOES believe in invisible things — no one doubts the existence of wind , electricity , love or toothache , even though no one has ever seen any of those things ! ) |
| 21 | RASA : Drink eaten by a rare Talahari tribe that no one has ever seen or found any evidence to prove that they exist . |
| 22 | However the Phoenix Guard never divulge their secrets and no one has ever seen the Chamber of Days and lived . |
| 23 | A further danger to avoid is agreeing in advance to disclose a particular medical report , or indeed any other sort of expert 's report , before one has actually seen it . |
| 24 | But no one looked up to see the dead man hanging from a branch near the top of the 30ft conifer , said police . |
| 25 | One did not see uniformed members of the Partito Nazionale Fascista walking about the streets every day , but from time to time there were parades in which they could easily be identified . |
| 26 | The country houses decay and fall : hardly a week passes when one does not see the auctioneer 's notice of the impending sale and dissolution of some big estate . |
| 27 | " To paint , " she remembered from Proust 's description of fictive Elstir , " that one does not see what one sees . " |
| 28 | The third : the targets are met or exceeded but one does not see the results in the shops . |
| 29 | In other words , unless one is a special scholar or a night watchman , one does not see these collections . |
| 30 | He was also very fond of flowers , and as well as things such as marigolds , pansies , marguerites and wallflowers , he grew a rose one does n't see these days , which was very white when it first came out and then developed a lovely flush of pink . |