Example sentences of "'d never seen " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never seen what people drank before so that was interesting — nor did I realize quite how many of the youngsters smoked ! |
| 2 | Jay 's hand played a sonata she 'd never seen the score for . |
| 3 | I 'd never seen anything like it before . |
| 4 | Here where class and its rituals , football teams , chips , queues for everything , council estates , three storey houses , pebble dashed suburbia , languages we 'd never heard , the tube , children who 'd grown up with TV programmes we 'd never seen , pubs and warm beer ( when we saw COURAGE written on pub hoardings we thought they were left over from the war to give people morale ) , tea and gasfires and pets , having to make appointments to see people in advance rather than just arriving , suspicious politeness , all of these began to reveal themselves , intricately and ambiguously . |
| 5 | He smiled and said ‘ Thank you ’ as if he 'd never seen me before , as did I. I went back to my seat and faced the front again . |
| 6 | The party was held at his flat which was a loft in a warehouse down by the river in Shad Thames on a wharf right next to Tower Bridge I 'd never seen anywhere like it . |
| 7 | And then we got to school and it was all big and confusing and there was all these boys I 'd never seen before , all with their parents and some of the kids were weird-looking with funny eyes . |
| 8 | It was quite amazing really because we 'd never seen any of these things before . |
| 9 | He was spending money like I 'd never seen . |
| 10 | He 'd never seen anyone in Jubilee Wood in all the months he 'd been coming up here . |
| 11 | The birds were n't anything he knew and he 'd never seen toadstools like that with spots on . |
| 12 | He looked along this end of Mrs Wright 's house that he 'd never seen before . |
| 13 | He 'd never seen her up here before . |
| 14 | He 'd never seen himself as old . |
| 15 | On 24 May 1988 , the last bit of meat went out the door , and an hour later I felt I 'd never seen a T-bone steak ! ’ |
| 16 | She 'd never seen John drunk before , and did n't particularly like it . |
| 17 | She 'd never seen anyone so transfixed , but then he 'd never seen a naked woman before . |
| 18 | She 'd never seen anyone so transfixed , but then he 'd never seen a naked woman before . |
| 19 | Chief Inspector Kuhlmann put down the phone and looked at Kurt Meyer as though he 'd never seen him before . |
| 20 | I 'd never seen anything like it . |
| 21 | At least she 'd never seen one . |
| 22 | I was n't too keen on this cheek to cheek business , with men I 'd never seen before and did n't know the names of , but I kept on telling myself not to be standoffish and to relax a bit , but as for jiving — no , I could n't do that . |
| 23 | I 'd never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ That I 'd never seen her from that day to this , of course . |
| 25 | He looked into Gorelli 's face , the face he 'd never seen , the face he 'd only heard , and so many years ago . |
| 26 | Whatever the extent of his self-inflicted frailty , I 'd never seen him as good-tempered as he had been recently , or as nervously loquacious . |
| 27 | I 'd never seen Mum dance before , but she slipped out of her sandals and danced with Auntie Jean to the Jackson Five . |
| 28 | I 'd never seen such chatter , nervousness and exhilaration in the dressing room before . |
| 29 | I 'd never seen Terry look so hopeful about anything before . |
| 30 | I 'd never seen anything like it . |