Example sentences of "never seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody wants a florid letter from someone they have never seen before but as an actor your style and personality must come through sufficiently — a bare list of parts played wo n't convey much . |
| 2 | I 've never seen such a mess ! |
| 3 | I 'd never seen what people drank before so that was interesting — nor did I realize quite how many of the youngsters smoked ! |
| 4 | However , I have never seen a copy of this circulated at the subdivision level at any location I have worked ; and outside force HQ the availability of any research or analytic literature on policing falls off dramatically . |
| 5 | Lucy paced , rampaged , flung out scads of unrequited ire , impassioned as Jay had never seen her . |
| 6 | Jay 's hand played a sonata she 'd never seen the score for . |
| 7 | There are some people who claim to be able to control an axe kick to the top of the opponent 's head , but I have never seen this done effectively enough to score . |
| 8 | In theory ( I have never seen this done ) you can also slap the incoming punch upwards and then go underneath it with a reverse punch . |
| 9 | I 'd never seen anything like it before . |
| 10 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 11 | Eleanor , Aveling and Liebknecht wrote to another , We have never seen in Europe such wanton interference on the part of the police with the liberty of the subject as we saw today in a country proverbially known as ‘ the land of the free ’ . |
| 12 | The integral construction of bodies , new air-sprung bogies , air conditioning , excellent sound and heat insulation , and a high standard of luxury furnishing and decor for both second and first class , and above ali strength to resist compression and buckling forces in an accident to an extent never seen before , brought a new era to BR coach design and made the HSTs deservedly popular . |
| 13 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 14 | A very young man has shot himself and ‘ we ’ ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ‘ cavalcade ’ ( ‘ our ladies had never seen a suicide ’ ) to view the corpse ; ‘ everything 's so boring ’ — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words — ‘ one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ’ ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new-born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death . |
| 15 | When they lock the man up with Jim and John and Henry and Mary and Dolores and Grace — I hope they will give him access to books , with paper enough for him to go on making translations for us from the classics such as we have never seen except at his hands in our language . |
| 16 | Because of this , he had never seen the Oxford and Cambridge boat race until this year . |
| 17 | Calcavecchia , who defends the Open Championship here next summer , had never seen St Andrews before and he improved with every round . |
| 18 | Hull supporters , who have never seen their side successful at Wembley , have a list of what went wrong on each occasion . |
| 19 | Hills cut him from 10-1 to 6-1 , prompting their representative , Don Payne , to comment : ‘ You expect big market moves before races like this , but I 've never seen anything on this scale . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ The literati had never seen one of them things before , ’ Montague says today . |
| 21 | He knows that he wandered in places which had never seen a plane , a car , or a radio . |
| 22 | They had never seen me so they thought I was white . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |
| 24 | Have you never seen a Welshman eating his dinner , or do you think that I am going bomb-happy ? ’ |
| 25 | It seems very strange to meet people who have passed through the C.B.T.C. who have never seen me before , or marched behind me from Spean Bridge railway station to start their training . |
| 26 | Many of the Officers and other ranks who landed on D-Day have been replaced by faces I have never seen before . |
| 27 | Since 1917 the locals had never seen such a large group of visitors . |
| 28 | He smiled and said ‘ Thank you ’ as if he 'd never seen me before , as did I. I went back to my seat and faced the front again . |
| 29 | He said , ‘ I 've never seen anything like this . ’ |
| 30 | I had never seen water that was that blue . |