Example sentences of "[vb base] never [vb pp] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've never set eyes on him . |
| 2 | ‘ I hardly feel that I 'm the person to answer that particular question , ’ offered Mr Palmer , ‘ as I 've never set eyes on the lady before yesterday . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ We 've never taken odds on the Hartlepool constituency , and wo n't be , ’ says a lady at John Joyce . |
| 4 | And I 've never laid eyes on Vera . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've never laid eyes on 'em before , ’ he replied , ‘ but I 'll never ferget the bloke who laid me out . |
| 6 | " I 've never laid eyes on him , " Mrs. Butler said . |
| 7 | ‘ I have never seen Soho on the screen , ’ wrote Ernest Betts in 1928 and then he added that he had never seen Southend , Birmingham , Chelsea , Bloomsbury , or London suburbia either . |
| 8 | And the new stars , often college graduates who have never set foot on a farm in their lives , have played it for all they are worth . |
| 9 | ‘ To my certain knowledge , Wendy , I have never set eyes on anyone called Margot Iverson in my life before . ’ |
| 10 | As such , it was able to produce ‘ a more wonderful miracle than the greatest achievement of science ’ , for ‘ it enables millions who have never set eyes on one another to act together in peaceful and mutual co-operation and makes them glad and proud to do so ’ ( p. 8 ) . |