Example sentences of "[verb] never [adv] seen a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd never before seen a carpet so thick that it showed vacuuming lines , like a lawn . |
| 2 | ‘ We do n't say it 's impossible for anybody to add new motivated abilities in later life , ’ he says , ‘ but in all our research we 've never yet seen a completely new direction emerge . ’ |
| 3 | Again , this is a rule that can be broken , but I 've never yet seen a design with more than two needles tucking side by side . |
| 4 | Well , I 've never even seen a dead body before — imagine , what with the bones , the shroud and the flies ; if I had n't had the camera between me and it , I do n't think I could have looked . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've never even seen a creature like that in my life ! ’ |
| 6 | Ricci , that 's bleeding horses — I 've never even seen a horse , dear , except with a policeman underneath or on My Friend Flicka , and I do n't care WHAT they wear at the wretched Olympics . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've never before seen a rabbit with either a pocket , or a watch to take out of it , ’ she thought . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been around certain bands and been in bands and I 've never actually seen a groupie . |
| 9 | I 've never actually seen a horse until yesterday . ’ |
| 10 | I 've seen the odd snip of it like on telly , but I 've never actually seen a programme . |
| 11 | I had never even seen a Muslim — apart , of course , from on the television , and the ones I had seen there — I will be absolutely frank — did not seem a particularly inspiring bunch ! ’ |
| 12 | Most of the children had never even seen a banana before let alone tasted one . |
| 13 | Matilda had never before seen a boy , or anyone else for that matter , held aloft by his ears alone . |
| 14 | Lorrimer had eaten practically nothing , had drunk less , pushing his glass almost petulantly aside and fixing his great smouldering eyes on Domenica as if he had never before seen a woman . |
| 15 | Many have never even seen a Norfolk long-spade and many others have become too reliant upon the locator . |
| 16 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 17 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |