Example sentences of "never [verb] see [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter commented on the air raid and that he never expected to see soldiers guarding the tunnel , especially inside the tunnel for a second time , it having been guarded during World War I. The foreman told him that three soldiers had been killed near the spot that Mr Myer had been in the recess the previous night , they had apparently been run down by a train just inside the tunnel mouth . |
| 2 | This resulted in farce : ‘ I have never forgotten seeing footage of a British manager which began on his moccasined feet , wafted over his monogrammed door mat , and ended up opposite the sofa on which lounged five of his charges , scowling greasily ’ . |
| 3 | I never want to see turtle soup again as long as I live . ’ |
| 4 | I ai n't never going to see Mr Jackson again . |
| 5 | The expedition returned only two weeks after it had left , having never got to see Macquairie , the south coast , or the promising territory around Port Davy . |
| 6 | Since one can never hope to see things which are much smaller than the wave-length of the light which one is using , there was clearly no hope of ever seeing them directly by means of the ordinary optical microscope which reaches its limit with objects about half a micron thick . |
| 7 | While Stavrogin never gets to see Tikhon , the immediate future holds murder in store for Shatov . |
| 8 | Never having seen firearms or horses before , the Aztecs regarded these things not only as supernatural , but as confirmation of Cortés 's divine status — of his identity as an avatar of their supreme god , Quetzalcoatl . |
| 9 | But I fear there is small chance that you will guess correctly , never having seen Roksanda ! " |
| 10 | Never having seen Jack suture , she wondered if she ought to call the fascio-maxillary surgeon over from the Norfolk and Norwich , or if she could , indeed , trust Jack to do a decent job . |
| 11 | Seb never went to see Magistrate Peck , and he returned to Swinbrook a very worried young man . |
| 12 | And I never went to see Arafat since 1982 because we had not heard of any mood or climate of change in the attitude of the PLO . |
| 13 | Walker said he never expects to see demand again such as Windows inspired . |
| 14 | The first few days of what she and Cara now termed their ‘ Czechoslovakian Experience ’ had been carefully planned , so that Fabia knew in advance that she would never get to see Vendelin Gajdusek . |