Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] see [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never seen such rage in you before |
| 2 | I 'd never seen such chatter , nervousness and exhilaration in the dressing room before . |
| 3 | It could have come from what happened with us , even if we 'd never seen each other again ! " |
| 4 | ‘ He went upstairs to see some rat holes … they certainly were enormous — and discovered that the room in which the food of the Gods was mixed … was in quite a disgraceful order . ’ |
| 5 | Corbett had rarely seen such beauty . |
| 6 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 7 | He fetched a soiled length of plough cord which had obviously seen much service and fastened it round the cow 's hock . |
| 8 | I remember an English don once coming to me at the end of a meeting , and saying that she had suddenly seen that evening in Jesus Christ the answer to the rather negative existentialist framework into which her life had been cast . |
| 9 | Of course Boy had seen inside a lot of different men 's houses , but this was the first man 's life he had ever watched at such close quarters , the first time he had ever seen a man taking care of himself , the first time he had ever seen another man living day after day after day . |
| 10 | Then take a limiting case : if nobody but the original painter or painters of the great roof bison of Altamira had ever seen this work ( and comparable work may still be lying undiscovered ) , would any of us wish , on our first sight of it , to deny its status as art because it had not been consciously exhibited ? |
| 11 | For a moment she thought she had really seen this happening and that Simon had drowned . |
| 12 | If he had never seen that leaflet pinned up on the Catholic Society notice-board at college , he would never have dreamt of participating in the pilgrimage . |
| 13 | Mr Wood reported to me that his servants had never seen such splendour and , as they carried it up to my rooms — where it sits safely ! — they felt like pirates from the Spanish main , he said , hauling off the booty ! ’ |
| 14 | Corbett had never seen such evil in someone so small : black hair slicked back against the head like the ears of a wet rat ; tiny , soulless eyes and a face as twisted and as sour as a rotten apple . |
| 15 | And then Fael-Inis stood up , and the Lad stopped and looked around , and his eyes fell on Fael-Inis , and Taliesin thought he had never seen such fear and such undiluted hatred in any living creature 's eyes . |
| 16 | Bernice had never seen such sadness in his eyes — in anyone 's eyes . |
| 17 | Katze had never seen this type of explosive , but it did n't take a scientific genius to work out what the thing was . |
| 18 | I had never seen any animal , human or otherwise , so wild — so determined , so excited , so driven . |
| 19 | They were friends and they expected never to see each other again . |