Example sentences of "only ever seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kitchen , which Mungo had only ever seen full of people , seemed incomplete ; waiting for human activity to bring it to life . |
| 2 | I had only ever seen them in a tank or on a slab and this was totally different . |
| 3 | I have only ever seen this once . |
| 4 | Tom adds however that he has only ever seen a maximum of two wolf teeth grown in the upper jaw ; four wolf teeth are extremely rare . |
| 5 | A creature only ever seen on the magical Isle of Man , Jimmy Squarefoot has a formidable appearance , with the head and tusks of a large boar , the body of a man , and large square feet swathed in calico bands . |
| 6 | Her lot had not been a happy one : the husband whom she had only ever seen for a few precious weeks in all since their marriage had now left her a widow , without support and with a child and step-children to fend for . |
| 7 | His house was full of things she had only ever seen in old films with Rock Hudson and Doris Day : a vacuum cleaner , which did the work of a suckerdrone ; a gramophone , which played unwieldy round black musidiscs with added scratch and hiss as part of the music ; an electric kettle that took ages , maybe two minutes , to heat up enough water for a cup of recaff , and did n't do anything about the impurities and pollutants . |
| 8 | There were no stores like the ones she could now see flashing past the cab window , fine jewellers and milliners , bookshops and department stores , their windows displaying a variety of goods Ellie had only ever seen in the pictures of second-hand magazines . |
| 9 | Again , she had only ever seen pictures of rooms like this in magazines , in the homes of film stars : enormous chambers furnished as this one was with deep wing chairs and buttoned leather chesterfields , warmed by a huge log fire blazing in the grate , and with every wall hung with various and ornately framed oil paintings . |
| 10 | The pack animals were large tawny-coloured beasts of a kind that Rostov had only ever seen in illustration . |
| 11 | These are Houseparties that move by motor from one idyllic anchorage to another , often visiting places only ever seen by yachtsmen . |
| 12 | I 've only ever seen you a couple of times , with your dad at matches . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've only ever seen them from a distance , ’ the old man whispered . |
| 14 | As he turned , the leg was straight up in the air , a position I 'd only ever seen Springsteen get into voluntarily . |
| 15 | However , I would suggest that this score is inflated by " Terra " , a proper name that I have only ever seen in a science fictional context to refer to the planet Earth . |
| 16 | I 've only ever seen one and the one that , the recent one is called just Cher and that 's got all the last , the last few top ten hits on it . |
| 17 | I 've only ever seen part of it I mean where they get it rigged up and the hit man keeps coming back and he , he keeps seeing him and he 's , he 's walking round the place and |
| 18 | I I 've only ever seen the first film of it . |
| 19 | I 've only ever seen one before right , I watched it last night and it 's the same fucking one . |
| 20 | A very young kid goes out for a walk with his parents he 's only ever seen cats and dogs before they go |