Example sentences of "had never see a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was in fact eighteen , had never seen a battle , and was very nervous of the notorious Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe who was thirty-eight years old and had lost count of all his battles . |
| 2 | She had never seen a dragon before , and now she nearly exploded with joy . |
| 3 | I have run in more than 30 cities , including places that had never seen a runner before . |
| 4 | Dr Richard Kellett said he had never seen a child as badly injured . |
| 5 | Kevin had never seen a nursery before . |
| 6 | Fenella , who had never seen a map quite like this one , had curled up on the floor to listen . |
| 7 | Curiously enough , she had never seen a newt before . |
| 8 | Anabelle had never seen a turtle before , and thought him a kindly creature . |
| 9 | He had never seen a credit card , and indeed he was not looking at one now . |
| 10 | Elizabeth had never seen a ghost in her life . |
| 11 | She had never seen a ghost in her life . |
| 12 | It is possible that the young Evelyn , who had never seen a Court masque , was easily impressed . |
| 13 | As she got closer to them Julia thought that she had never seen a man with such brilliant dark eyes or so saturnine and yet handsome a face . |
| 14 | I had never seen a man deliberately killed before and I was more scared even than I had been before . |
| 15 | At first she could n't believe it ; she had never seen a man cry before . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Of course Nebbins had never seen a tractor before , he wondered what it was . |
| 18 | It so happened that Hazel had never seen a crow . |
| 19 | After all they had never seen a storm being still before . |
| 20 | He knows that he wandered in places which had never seen a plane , a car , or a radio . |
| 21 | I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest . |
| 22 | Vologsky had never seen a need to question Kirov 's authenticity , or to probe him for details of his mother and father . |
| 23 | She had never seen a view so beautiful . |
| 24 | I had never seen a horse breathe like this . |
| 25 | But Finnegan told the court he had never seen a notice to quit — although he did not dispute the arrears . |
| 26 | Except in pictures , she had never seen a ship . |
| 27 | Amaranth , thank God , looked like the sort of woman who had never seen a vacuum cleaner in her life . |
| 28 | It was a fascinating glimpse of a people who in the sixteenth century had never seen a wheel or a sea-going ship , had never faced an armoured knight on horseback or the fire power of crossbows and guns , but whose roads and lines of communication through the incredible terrain of the Andes , whose methods of agriculture by irrigation and whose whole political set-up , so close to what we know as Communism , was in some ways more advanced than that of their conquerors . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He had never seen a laburnum and was puzzled by the name , which in Lapine is " Poison-tree " . |