Example sentences of "have never see a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his second letter he wrote , ‘ I have never seen a cradle without thinking of a grave ; the sight of a naked woman makes me imagine her skeleton . ’ |
| 2 | Mr Dods , 30 , said : ‘ Some of these children have never seen a cow being milked or anything on a farm . |
| 3 | I have never seen a church empty so quickly . ) |
| 4 | ‘ I have never seen a fracture of the anterior fossa of the skull due to a blow on the nose … |
| 5 | I have never seen a King dressed as badly as you were ! |
| 6 | ‘ I have never seen a King as badly dressed as you were ! ’ |
| 7 | I teach students who are often illiterate , who do not know how to use a hand-held calculator , who have never seen a film with subtitles or read a classic work of literature , and who can not spell even the name of important people in their field ( for example , psychology majors who spell Freud as Frued ) . |
| 8 | We agree with MacGowan and Reeves that the half life may be inaccurate if it is calculated from only two values ; but perhaps that is why they have never seen a patient with normal renal function in whom the half life is as long as 7.6 hours , since in clinical practice two measurements are all one has to go on . |
| 9 | So customers spent their money on twelve-inch discs instead , and in fact I have never seen a twenty-inch Neophone record . |
| 10 | ‘ I have never seen a rain storm like it — it must have lasted more than 30 minutes . |
| 11 | To give a second example , pied flycatchers which have never seen a shrike will mob a model shrike ; the mobbing is best elicited , or ‘ released ’ , by a model of the right size and orientation , with a horizontal black eye stripe on the appropriate background colour . |
| 12 | But I have never seen a gang-fight , as such , with grown men involved . |
| 13 | I have never seen a hunt in progress , although I recall vaguely as a child being taken to watch a Meet when I was visiting relatives in Piercebridge . |
| 14 | I have never seen a player catch a football in his mouth and spit it back to his keeper before . |
| 15 | ‘ I have never seen a bear so huge , Sir John ! ’ he exclaimed . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | ‘ I have been a nurse for ten years but I have never seen a bullet wound . |
| 18 | The related thorny question of abortion was another topic , and Mr. Jenks was cheered when , referring to his work in hospitals , he said : ‘ I have never seen a woman who wanted an abortion , but plenty who felt they had no alternative ’ , citing education to stop unwanted pregnancies as the real solution . |
| 19 | You have never seen a woman in her peignoir before ? ’ |
| 20 | It 's the same as that place in Australia where they have n't seen rain for seventeen years , I mean there 's children who are grown up now at college have never seen a spot of rain , I 'd hate that I 'd rather have our , sometimes dismal climate . |
| 21 | However , I have never seen a copy of this circulated at the subdivision level at any location I have worked ; and outside force HQ the availability of any research or analytic literature on policing falls off dramatically . |
| 22 | ‘ I have never seen a cut in education spending , ’ he said . |
| 23 | I have never seen an avocet in Cornwall , but I 'm told that this rare and unique bird has been spotted on these marshes . |