Example sentences of "[vb past] never see a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd never seen a boy so thin and pale-looking . |
| 2 | Angalo had found a pebble that was almost the right shape to attach to a twig with strips torn off his coat ; he 'd never seen a stone axe in his life , but he had a definite feeling that there were useful things that could be done with a stone tied to the end of a stick . |
| 3 | Anyone would think you 'd never seen a chocolate before ! |
| 4 | He also agreed he 'd never seen a skull fracture caused by a blow to the nose . |
| 5 | I 'd never seen a weapon like that before — only military rifles . |
| 6 | Anyone would think he 'd never seen a Kobold before . |
| 7 | He was in fact eighteen , had never seen a battle , and was very nervous of the notorious Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe who was thirty-eight years old and had lost count of all his battles . |
| 8 | She had never seen a dragon before , and now she nearly exploded with joy . |
| 9 | I have run in more than 30 cities , including places that had never seen a runner before . |
| 10 | Dr Richard Kellett said he had never seen a child as badly injured . |
| 11 | Kevin had never seen a nursery before . |
| 12 | Fenella , who had never seen a map quite like this one , had curled up on the floor to listen . |
| 13 | Curiously enough , she had never seen a newt before . |
| 14 | Anabelle had never seen a turtle before , and thought him a kindly creature . |
| 15 | He had never seen a credit card , and indeed he was not looking at one now . |
| 16 | Elizabeth had never seen a ghost in her life . |
| 17 | She had never seen a ghost in her life . |
| 18 | It is possible that the young Evelyn , who had never seen a Court masque , was easily impressed . |
| 19 | As she got closer to them Julia thought that she had never seen a man with such brilliant dark eyes or so saturnine and yet handsome a face . |
| 20 | I had never seen a man deliberately killed before and I was more scared even than I had been before . |
| 21 | At first she could n't believe it ; she had never seen a man cry before . |
| 22 | We had never seen a soffit ventilator before , and had only a vague idea about dry-verge ridging , but the excellent catalogues and leaflets provided most of the instructions we needed . |
| 23 | Of course Nebbins had never seen a tractor before , he wondered what it was . |
| 24 | It so happened that Hazel had never seen a crow . |
| 25 | After all they had never seen a storm being still before . |
| 26 | He knows that he wandered in places which had never seen a plane , a car , or a radio . |
| 27 | I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest . |
| 28 | Vologsky had never seen a need to question Kirov 's authenticity , or to probe him for details of his mother and father . |
| 29 | She had never seen a view so beautiful . |
| 30 | I had never seen a horse breathe like this . |