Example sentences of "ever seen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Town planning was more than ever seen as a standard bearer for recovery , and the determination to rebuild pervaded the planning literature of the day . |
| 2 | This recipe is the closest I 've ever seen to the one which our family cook Rhoda would make , months in advance of Christmas . |
| 3 | The organisers of the Basingstoke Open Day succeeded in assembling the largest collection of motive power types ever seen on BR . |
| 4 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
| 5 | Sergeant Newton Barrios had investigated more than seven hundred traffic fatalities in the city of New Orleans , but this was the worst he 'd ever seen on the St Claude Avenue Bridge . |
| 6 | Not only was it a Test Match victory more substantial than any before , but Hutton 's 364 scored in thirteen hours and twenty minutes was the most remarkable exhibition of concentration and endurance ever seen on a cricket field . |
| 7 | ‘ The cheers melted into gasps of admiration and roars of approval from the stands as , in turn , this famous pair of chasers made some of the most prodigious leaps ever seen on an English racecourse , ’ wrote Len Thomas in the Sporting Life : ‘ It was a spectacle which I shall never forget . ’ |
| 8 | And out of the dark woods came the black man , leading his horse on one arm , and on the other a tall grey hound with the saddest face I have ever seen on any creature . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | So ended one of the most traumatic experiences ever seen on the railway system in the British Isles . |
| 11 | Not only did they run the longest steam-hauled train ever seen on the 20-mile line since BR days , but also set a new British mileage record for the longest continuous run of Beamish Museum 's replica ‘ Locomotion ’ . |
| 12 | For his pains , he was treated disrespectfully by guest players and placed at the centre of the most distasteful charade ever seen on an English first-class cricket field . |
| 13 | Samey levels , awkward controls and some of the most noninteractive flying ever seen on the C64 make G-Loc a game to avoid . |
| 14 | Too many legs though , round luminous eyes , and more complicated mandibles than any arachnid Ace had ever seen on Earth . |
| 15 | The very sky smelt of frost though a sun bigger than she had ever seen on Mars still shone remote between gold-fringed clouds . |
| 16 | Twoflower was a tourist , the first ever seen on the discworld . |
| 17 | Peter Black , whose Daily Mail colleague Shaun Usher had voiced reservations , wrote , ‘ Raymond Allen 's Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em is the best visual comedy I 've ever seen on TV . |
| 18 | It was coming at me like a bullet , head shaking , lips curled back , teeth long and yellow and by far the biggest I 'd ever seen on a rabbit , live or dead . |
| 19 | THERE is a face that pops up on TV screens that is the most instantly dislikeable I 've ever seen on the tube ; a medium that sets Olympic standards in throwing up instantly dislikeable mugs . |
| 20 | NIGEL MANSELL clocked the fastest lap ever seen on the streets of Adelaide to secure provisional pole position for Sunday 's Australian Grand Prix . |
| 21 | The most striking example I have ever seen of this was in Morocco , in North Africa . |
| 22 | No Tiller is ever seen with a man , she does not go out with a man , receive any man and the rule extends even to her father and brothers , no Girl holds a conversation with a man , inside or outside the theatre and if a man addresses her , she would say ‘ Excuse me ’ and walk away . |
| 23 | She wore new black button-up boots and on her head was perched the largest black hat I had ever seen with a black bird on top . |
| 24 | It 's just a pity we do n't live in the era when a man could set his mistress up somewhere and know she 'd be there waiting for him whenever he felt the urge to see her , but was never , ever seen with her in public . ’ |
| 25 | All of his six feet six foot three of smouldering sexuality he 's probably the best looking man you have ever seen with a bo body he looks every inch the top model he once was . |
| 26 | There before him stood one of the tallest , thinnest men he had ever seen outside a circus . |
| 27 | Another sneeze dawned and he reached yet again for his handkerchief , an object which Milton felt was about as disgusting as anything he had ever seen outside the occasional severed head in a motorway accident . |
| 28 | The biggest collection of Ferraris ever seen outside Italy gathered at Silverstone at the weekend . |
| 29 | A goalless draw against newly-promoted Notts County at Leeds Road in September 1923 was afterwards described by the Examiner as ‘ one of the most disgraceful exhibitions ever seen under the auspices of the Football Association ’ . |
| 30 | They take several Elf fortresses and precipitate the most bitter fighting ever seen between the Elves including the infamous Siege of Tor Lehan . |