Example sentences of "[verb] never seen the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are n't afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born ? ’ asked Miss Havisham . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There 's so much good stuff that has never seen the light of day . |
| 4 | Miss Debrace has never seen the place . |
| 5 | That fucking bitch would wish she 'd never seen the book or him or anything to do with it . |
| 6 | Jay 's hand played a sonata she 'd never seen the score for . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've never seen the church so crowded for a funeral , ’ said William 's nan proudly , though there was a hint of suspicion in the eyes that gazed around the congregation . |
| 8 | I 've never seen the sea . |
| 9 | I 've never seen the film . |
| 10 | Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high . |
| 11 | Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high . |
| 12 | I 've never seen the play , I have no experience of the production . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've never seen the boy ? ’ |
| 14 | I 've never seen the sort of breathtaking squalor I witnessed there but give them a day when their neighbourhood is shown to be worth the world running through it , gratefully accepting water and candy from them at the roadside , and it 's amazing the way mutual mistrust can disappear . |
| 15 | I 've never seen the President of the D T I look so harassed and frightened for his own future . |
| 16 | Desmond said , ‘ I 've never seen the lad . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've never seen the Lad of the Skins … well , I 've never wanted to . |
| 18 | I 've never seen the abbreviation before you see . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've never seen the point of keeping piles of the stuff , ’ she said . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 — ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , me dear gawd , ’ gasped the young woman , ‘ I 've never seen the like of that , it 's a gun . ’ |
| 22 | I mean , cor blimey , I 've never seen the woman or the kid before in my life ! |
| 23 | ‘ You 've never seen the pool ? |
| 24 | Although Martin has said that some bass players like to be able to significantly alter their sound while they are actually playing on stage , I 've never seen the need to have all the gubbins on the bass to do that , then have lots more gubbins on the amp to do more of the same . |
| 25 | Nigel had never seen the film and , as it was shown rather late , we had recorded it and intended to watch it that afternoon . |
| 26 | He paused in the doorway , because it was rare to see the High Queen without at least a dozen courtiers ; certainly he had never seen the Sun Chamber like this , bathed in the glow from the dying day , alive with the strong , pure magic of the Purple Hour , the huge crystal windows that looked out over all Ireland ablaze with light . |
| 27 | She was a strange , skinny woman always dressed in dark clothes , and her face looked as if it had never seen the sun . |
| 28 | ‘ The Black fellows of the Upper Hunter told me ’ , wrote Gould in a letter to E. P. Ramsay in Sydney in 1866 , ‘ that the little Melopsittacus undulatus had come to meet me , for they had never seen the bird in that district until the year I arrived . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He had never seen the interior of a church before . |