Example sentences of "never saw [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He did n't change his clothes too often , and when he did he just picked up whatever was around him — Eva 's jumpers , Dad 's waistcoats , and always my shirts , which he borrowed and I never saw again . |
| 2 | ‘ Our resident poet could sing of Stalinvast 's lethal festering jungles which I never saw ; and of viscous scabs blasted in those jungles by a host of weapons ; and of all the reef-cities which I never saw either , infested with their slaving grimy weapons-makers . |
| 3 | They offer very scant opportunity for children to express themselves in creative and cultural activities , while retaining a relatively generous allocation for physical education ( a subject which in all my years as an inspector and teacher trainer I never saw convincingly taught outside college teaching practice ) . |
| 4 | Carmichael states that ‘ the plant is secretly secured in the bodices of the women and in the vests of the men , under the left armpit ’ , while Martin Martin gives an account of a man in Berneray , Harris , who wore it in the neck of his coat to prevent him from seeing visions , and ‘ he never saw any since he first carried that plant about with him ’ . |
| 5 | Their gross ignorance is the very smallest of their sins … anything so uncouth I never saw before … ’ wrote the British Consul at La Spezia , Italy , under the nom de plume Cornelius O'Dowd . |
| 6 | It 's a sight I never saw before . |
| 7 | Then someone peers out the little square panel , and finally some bolts are drawn back and a Rasta I never saw before beckons me inside . |
| 8 | A lot of the operations now I do I think I can do better that I 'm now seeing detail that I never saw before with the naked eye . |
| 9 | He stops beside the kerb and looks into my face as if he has seen something there he never saw before . |
| 10 | All you see over there , you never saw only them with , only them golden pheasants , that 's all I saw . |
| 11 | About a dozen men took charge of me and 11 other foreigners.I never saw more than 20 armed men in the hotel . |
| 12 | Anton stood by the window , listening ; looking out , down ; the street was full of children ; you never saw so many children , boisterous ragamuffins , as on a tenement street on a hot summer night . |
| 13 | Experience seems to evolve from youth in a way not measured by the calendar : more like a river than a canal — which is what we knew but never saw so clearly as in these photographs . |
| 14 | There were 200,000 people living in the City of London — I never saw so many people before in my life . |
| 15 | Having surreptitiously placed the man 's coat in the room , she says : ( " I never saw so luxurious a bed ! |