Example sentences of "never [adv] see [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 2 | I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased . |
| 3 | Apart from my fourpence a week , his brothers likewise never ever saw a penny from him . |
| 4 | se , we never ever see a policeman . |
| 5 | Matilda had never before seen a boy , or anyone else for that matter , held aloft by his ears alone . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've never before seen a rabbit with either a pocket , or a watch to take out of it , ’ she thought . |
| 7 | Lorrimer had eaten practically nothing , had drunk less , pushing his glass almost petulantly aside and fixing his great smouldering eyes on Domenica as if he had never before seen a woman . |
| 8 | She 'd never before seen a carpet so thick that it showed vacuuming lines , like a lawn . |
| 9 | In a hospital you never really see the face of anybody in a uniform , just the uniform . |
| 10 | I never even saw a bath till I got to America ! |
| 11 | I mean , I was one of those kids who never even saw a mirror until I was about thirteen , and by that time it was too late . |
| 12 | Well , I 've never even seen a dead body before — imagine , what with the bones , the shroud and the flies ; if I had n't had the camera between me and it , I do n't think I could have looked . |
| 13 | Many have never even seen a Norfolk long-spade and many others have become too reliant upon the locator . |
| 14 | Better than ‘ The National Front Disco ’ or whatever by Morrissey — he 's obviously never even seen a soccer ball in his life . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've never even seen a creature like that in my life ! ’ |
| 16 | Ricci , that 's bleeding horses — I 've never even seen a horse , dear , except with a policeman underneath or on My Friend Flicka , and I do n't care WHAT they wear at the wretched Olympics . ’ |
| 17 | I had never even seen a Muslim — apart , of course , from on the television , and the ones I had seen there — I will be absolutely frank — did not seem a particularly inspiring bunch ! ’ |
| 18 | Most of the children had never even seen a banana before let alone tasted one . |
| 19 | And those that do , grow up in a sub-culture that is a disgrace to England ; unable to read or write , born to crime as a way of life , most of them have never even seen the inside of a church . |
| 20 | He 'd never even seen the wedding-dress the boy had mentioned . |
| 21 | Nicholson remained slightly ahead of his group so that they could never quite see the expression of disdain of his face . |
| 22 | ‘ We do n't say it 's impossible for anybody to add new motivated abilities in later life , ’ he says , ‘ but in all our research we 've never yet seen a completely new direction emerge . ’ |
| 23 | Again , this is a rule that can be broken , but I 've never yet seen a design with more than two needles tucking side by side . |
| 24 | The truth was , I never again experienced that warm , urgent magic I had felt with the actor — I never again saw an ordinary , or even ugly face change and become Apollo-like through the intervention of love . |
| 25 | Forever on the move , meeting new faces , constantly in demand socially whenever she was off duty , Liza Tremayne found that there were longer and longer periods between the days when she still suffered black despair over the thought that she would never again see the man she so resembled in character and who had given her , had she known it , more love than he had ever bestowed upon any other woman . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been around certain bands and been in bands and I 've never actually seen a groupie . |
| 27 | I 've never actually seen a horse until yesterday . ’ |
| 28 | I 've seen the odd snip of it like on telly , but I 've never actually seen a programme . |
| 29 | Maybe he had never actually seen the operation he was describing . |
| 30 | ‘ But you never actually saw the other one ? ’ |