Example sentences of "never saw the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I never saw the sea on fire but f when we wen went into the sea I mean we were directly beneath the platform , and at that stage I mean the whole platform was on fire . |
| 2 | But you never saw the king of beasts clap his forepaws nor balance a ball on his nose ! |
| 3 | Before considering even those issues , however , there is one more very obvious question to ask : which is why Tolkien never saw The Silmarillion into print himself , and why the Unfinished Tales remained unfinished . |
| 4 | At Thorsbury Manor she never saw the inside of the kitchen yet here , it was the centre of family life . |
| 5 | ‘ I never saw the outline of a plane , just this incredible ball of flame . |
| 6 | Correct me if I 'm wrong , but I never saw the likes of ‘ Doyler ’ sneaking off the pitch for a quickie , unlike , say , Jimbo Morrison or the boys in Led Zep who considered such interludes to be an amusing challenge to their versatility as artistes . |
| 7 | Finally we climbed a bank and were on the road again , the smoothness of it lulling me into such a deep sleep that I never saw the barrier at the railway crossing , did not even hear them telling Ward the Jequetepeque had broken its banks a little further on . |
| 8 | And we must certainly say that he never saw the issues of language and imagery which feminists today believe to be crucial : he evidently refers without second thought to God as ‘ Father ’ . |
| 9 | He and Ockrent go back a long way — to a jointly written screenplay for Paul MacCartney , which ‘ never saw the light of day — a damn shame , because it was a lot better than Broad Street . |
| 10 | ‘ There was nice stuff written during that era but it never saw the light of day . |
| 11 | For the first three days we were locked in the classrooms and never saw the light of day . ’ |