Example sentences of "never before see " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faussone talks about ‘ the way we bent our elbows ’ — an expression ( for eating or drinking ) which I have heard spoken in English , but which I had never before seen written down in a book . |
| 2 | The sense of its otherness , he wrote , just as I wanted it , an alien object , one never before seen on our planet , not quite animal , not quite mineral , not quite vegetable , yet familiar , familiar . |
| 3 | We visited Blackwell 's , such a bookshop as I had never before seen , and Vivien left with armfuls of books , and I , happy with one modest Penguin . |
| 4 | ‘ BMS 's intercooled turbo diesel engine combines economy , performance and refinement in a way never before seen in a diesel ’ |
| 5 | When we were north of the border recently for the Scottish Music Show , before I 'd had time to look round myself , people were rushing over to describe a monster the like of which they 'd never before seen . |
| 6 | She had never before seen or felt such vitality . |
| 7 | Matilda had never before seen a boy , or anyone else for that matter , held aloft by his ears alone . |
| 8 | I had never before seen any Benedict 's sister do that . |
| 9 | Its great attraction is that , because it was organised in conjunction with the Tretyakov gallery in Moscow and the Russian museum in St Petersburg , it contains many works never before seen in the West , some from far-flung areas of the CIS . |
| 10 | She had been truly moved by herself , by her own watery image , by her grotesquely elongated legs , her tapering waist , and above all by the undersides of her breasts , never before seen . |
| 11 | You may think as I often do : has the client never before seen his consumers ? |
| 12 | ‘ I 've never before seen a rabbit with either a pocket , or a watch to take out of it , ’ she thought . |
| 13 | I had never before seen such a soft light in those once proud eyes , or felt such a friendly touch of her once cold hand . |
| 14 | His father turned toward him with an earnestness that Jack had never before seen in his face . |
| 15 | I 've never before seen cadaveric spasm in a case of homicidal manual throttling , and it 's interesting . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But they also brought with them European innovations ; and already , in the winter of 1888 , the bazaars were stocked with articles never before seen : porcelain , lamps , glasses , mirrors , brushes , writing materials , coffee , preserves , biscuits . |
| 18 | She 'd never before seen a carpet so thick that it showed vacuuming lines , like a lawn . |
| 19 | Wild plants growing well where never before seen , and growing very well where only found in small clumps . |
| 20 | He had never before seen man and woman regard , consider and touch each other as man with man . |
| 21 | If the same impact was made on the whole of China after 1997 , there would be growth economies and expansion on a scale never before seen . |
| 22 | They twist on their perches in positions never before seen in life-size British bird illustration , their eyes betraying a sense of character created by the artist 's pen . |
| 23 | ONE of Britain 's rarest bugs , never before seen in Scotland , has been found in an ancient woodland in Fife . |
| 24 | ‘ Father , ’ said Master James earnestly , ‘ I never before saw poor devils living wild wearing good leather jerkins and solid boots , and daggers fit for a baron 's guard . ’ |