Example sentences of "never see the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gesner moved to mask her again , and once more she darted round the screen , suddenly making great play with the peacock tail , holding it up to hide the lower part of her face , managing to pretend never to see the front of Luxembourg 's face , and never to let him see her . |
| 2 | He 's conscious that safety-critical items such as tyres and brakes must n't be skimped on , but he 's not overly concerned about sticking to the recommended 6000-mile service schedule ; so far the Sierra has on average been serviced every 13,500 miles and has never seen the inside of a Ford dealer 's workshop . |
| 3 | He had never seen the interior of a church before . |
| 4 | She felt intensely sorry for poor Brian , living as he did with anxiety and insecurity , and had never seen the necessity of channelling any of her pity back into her own parched reserves . |
| 5 | I 've never seen the sort of breathtaking squalor I witnessed there but give them a day when their neighbourhood is shown to be worth the world running through it , gratefully accepting water and candy from them at the roadside , and it 's amazing the way mutual mistrust can disappear . |
| 6 | I have never seen the result of this operation . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've never seen the Lad of the Skins … well , I 've never wanted to . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , me dear gawd , ’ gasped the young woman , ‘ I 've never seen the like of that , it 's a gun . ’ |
| 9 | He had never seen the like of it . |
| 10 | There 's so much good stuff that has never seen the light of day . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've never seen the point of keeping piles of the stuff , ’ she said . |
| 12 | I 've never seen the President of the D T I look so harassed and frightened for his own future . |
| 13 | ‘ Although you may never see the harvest of your care and thoughtfulness , rest assured it will go on multiplying . ’ |
| 14 | He could never see the danger of such things , he could never see the way they 'd drive the country down into the stratum of the beasts . |
| 15 | Sadly , for it was a lively , largely autobiographical piece , it would never see the light of day . |
| 16 | Dragons can lie for dark centuries brooding over their treasures , bedding down on frozen flames that will never see the light of day . |
| 17 | Many of Brindley 's ideas were regarded as the hair-brained schemes of a madman which would never see the light of day . |
| 18 | Rowden is a fine school and it 'll give him plenty of sports and develop a side of him which could never see the light of day in Ireland . |
| 19 | You will probably never see the light of day again ! ’ |
| 20 | In this contriving to do the obvious thing in a way not altogether obvious will lie the difference between producing a run-of-the-mill story , which may well never see the light of day , and producing a story with that something extra . |
| 21 | Where that information relates to national security , all that the Government has to show is that publication might cause some injury to the national interest — a test which would ensure that the British equivalent of the Pentagon Papers would never see the light of day . |
| 22 | If it is your first work of fiction , you should also look at it as part of your groundwork which although it may never see the light of publication , is of great benefit to you as a writer . |
| 23 | If you do n't , you will never see the light of day in print . |
| 24 | After that I could never see the point of toiling up a steep incline in preference to riding comfortably on a ski-lift ! |
| 25 | Since being away from home involved that hideous activity , spending money , my Dad could never see the point of going . |
| 26 | But you never saw the king of beasts clap his forepaws nor balance a ball on his nose ! |
| 27 | At Thorsbury Manor she never saw the inside of the kitchen yet here , it was the centre of family life . |
| 28 | ‘ I never saw the outline of a plane , just this incredible ball of flame . |
| 29 | He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street . |
| 30 | ‘ There was nice stuff written during that era but it never saw the light of day . |