Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [noun] on " 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 | ‘ I have never seen Soho on the screen , ’ wrote Ernest Betts in 1928 and then he added that he had never seen Southend , Birmingham , Chelsea , Bloomsbury , or London suburbia either . |
| 5 | Can you imagine that these people have never listened to canned music or swigged a ‘ Coke ’ , never twiddled with radio frequencies , never seen Dallas on TV , never answered the phone , and never played Space Invaders ? |
| 6 | The magazine described Mr Donovan as the boy with bleached hair , although the actor told the court he had never used chemicals on his hair — ‘ just lemon juice in the sun sometimes ’ . |
| 7 | The magazine described Mr Donovan as the boy with bleached hair , although the actor told the court he had never used chemicals on his hair — ‘ just lemon juice in the sun sometimes ’ . |
| 8 | It was ironic , as it must be presumed that he had never set foot on French soil . |
| 9 | And the new stars , often college graduates who have never set foot on a farm in their lives , have played it for all they are worth . |
| 10 | ‘ To my certain knowledge , Wendy , I have never set eyes on anyone called Margot Iverson in my life before . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | From that day to this Adam had never set eyes on Mary Gage and had hardly ever thought of her . |
| 14 | THE first Essex Senior Cup final , in 1884 , saw Colchester beat Braintree 3–1 but the garrison town has never set eyes on Signor Fattorini 's masterpiece since . |
| 15 | As such , it was able to produce ‘ a more wonderful miracle than the greatest achievement of science ’ , for ‘ it enables millions who have never set eyes on one another to act together in peaceful and mutual co-operation and makes them glad and proud to do so ’ ( p. 8 ) . |
| 16 | I 've never set eyes on him . |
| 17 | Not for the first time , she wished Great-Aunt Alicia had never set eyes on Matthew Preston . |
| 18 | ‘ I hardly feel that I 'm the person to answer that particular question , ’ offered Mr Palmer , ‘ as I 've never set eyes on the lady before yesterday . ’ |
| 19 | People like Michelle probably never set eyes on a dentist normally . |
| 20 | And I 've never laid eyes on Vera . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've never laid eyes on 'em before , ’ he replied , ‘ but I 'll never ferget the bloke who laid me out . |
| 22 | He could be right too , but I 'd never laid eyes on her . |
| 23 | Funny thing , I felt close to Connie , yet I 'd never laid eyes on her . |
| 24 | " I 've never laid eyes on him , " Mrs. Butler said . |
| 25 | I 'd never eaten breakfast on weekdays before , and I used to be starving by lunch-time and pig out . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've never taken odds on the Hartlepool constituency , and wo n't be , ’ says a lady at John Joyce . |