Example sentences of "never seen a [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had never seen a soffit ventilator before , and had only a vague idea about dry-verge ridging , but the excellent catalogues and leaflets provided most of the instructions we needed . |
| 2 | Angalo had found a pebble that was almost the right shape to attach to a twig with strips torn off his coat ; he 'd never seen a stone axe in his life , but he had a definite feeling that there were useful things that could be done with a stone tied to the end of a stick . |
| 3 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |
| 4 | ‘ Never seen a slave band like that afore . ’ |
| 5 | Never seen a Goldfish book ? |
| 6 | He had never seen a credit card , and indeed he was not looking at one now . |
| 7 | Having never seen a swing bridge before I wondered how the boats were going to get under it but I was soon to find out . |
| 8 | It is possible that the young Evelyn , who had never seen a Court masque , was easily impressed . |
| 9 | The executive took care not to let it slip out that he had never seen a DPR contract note . |
| 10 | At first she could n't believe it ; she had never seen a man cry before . |
| 11 | Sir Alexander Cadogan , made chairman in 1952 , had never seen a BBC television programme , and the ones he had seen , in the United States , he did n't much care for . |
| 12 | He also agreed he 'd never seen a skull fracture caused by a blow to the nose . |
| 13 | Have you never seen a fertility clinic catalogue ? ’ |
| 14 | I 've er , thank you , I 've never seen a fox hunt erm I 've er I think once er , once I got along to Cutts Close where the Boxing Day meet occurs and I can well accept that this Boxing Day meet draws a larger crowd of people from Oakham than any other activity through the year . |
| 15 | ‘ I have never seen a rain storm like it — it must have lasted more than 30 minutes . |
| 16 | I 've never seen a motor bike with a trailer |
| 17 | So customers spent their money on twelve-inch discs instead , and in fact I have never seen a twenty-inch Neophone record . |
| 18 | ‘ I have been a nurse for ten years but I have never seen a bullet wound . |
| 19 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |
| 20 | Melanie had never seen a dog belch before . |
| 21 | Being as Liverpool had never seen a skate comp before , the atmosphere at Dan-Z 's was riotous — even though it was only a mini ramp . |
| 22 | well I 've never seen a coffee set |
| 23 | I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest . |
| 24 | Amaranth , thank God , looked like the sort of woman who had never seen a vacuum cleaner in her life . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've never seen a woman fight like that , ’ he began again . |
| 26 | I 've never seen a chewing gum advert for them before |