Example sentences of "never seen the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had never seen the interior of a church before . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | All sorts of bits were falling off , exposing lots of snazzy metalwork and futuristic circuitry the likes of which I had never seen the likes of . |
| 5 | ‘ The Black fellows of the Upper Hunter told me ’ , wrote Gould in a letter to E. P. Ramsay in Sydney in 1866 , ‘ that the little Melopsittacus undulatus had come to meet me , for they had never seen the bird in that district until the year I arrived . ’ |
| 6 | They yeah we used to call in Tex and he , he could n't believe that there were old people living in Walsall at the time in this country the size of England , and people living in Walsall that had never seen the sea in their lives , and this guy coming from America could n't believe this . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I have never seen the result of this operation . |
| 9 | Jay 's hand played a sonata she 'd never seen the score for . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've never seen the Lad of the Skins … well , I 've never wanted to . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , me dear gawd , ’ gasped the young woman , ‘ I 've never seen the like of that , it 's a gun . ’ |
| 12 | He had never seen the like of it . |
| 13 | There 's so much good stuff that has never seen the light of day . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've never seen the point of keeping piles of the stuff , ’ she said . |
| 15 | I 've never seen the President of the D T I look so harassed and frightened for his own future . |