Example sentences of "[vb past] never [verb] eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 3 | This policeman was having to give evidence and he 'd come to talk , oh I see you 've had the baby , cos he was talking to me it had happened I said , oh what did you have blah blah blah , blah blah blah , but the little devil went in the witness box , he denied about not being there on duty about putting his mac on , ooh and he 'd never clapped eyes on barrister or a solicitor and they said he 'll meet you before the case , so we had to go extra early meet this barrister and he never came and so they took us in this little room in all his wig and his gown , we got , oh what happened ? |
| 4 | He could be right too , but I 'd never laid eyes on her . |
| 5 | Funny thing , I felt close to Connie , yet I 'd never laid eyes on her . |
| 6 | He waited until Berthon — with whom Rudd had never seen eye to eye — took a holiday and grafted a new front end on to Jean Behra 's car . |
| 7 | Erika , who had never set eyes on Hetta in her life , stoutly agreed , and even Paul , making a dishevelled appearance , said with his new courtliness that he would like to meet her , causing Frau Nordern to raise a sceptical eyebrow and warn him not to be sarcastic at that time of the morning . |
| 8 | Biddy drove out of town fast , and down narrow lanes into the country of wide marshland and wider skies which Nails knew existed but had never set eyes on before . |
| 9 | From that day to this Adam had never set eyes on Mary Gage and had hardly ever thought of her . |
| 10 | Not for the first time , she wished Great-Aunt Alicia had never set eyes on Matthew Preston . |