Example sentences of "had never seen [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mehtab , for instance , had never seen her mother or father sunbathing in the back garden . |
| 2 | He had never seen her mother or her aunt so he could n't look for family resemblances . |
| 3 | Philip had never seen her smoke before . |
| 4 | He had never seen her move so fast . |
| 5 | Benny had never seen her friend so low . |
| 6 | It is more than likely that Cis had never seen her young brother/son act in any formal sense at this time . |
| 7 | His daughter had never seen her father and had no idea of what he would be like . |
| 8 | She had never seen her mother cry . |
| 9 | Pressed by the nuns to complete a kettleholder in cross-stitch as a present for her father , she had replied that she had never seen her father holding a kettle and that Daddy had gone away . |
| 10 | Even with the soot-stains on her skin — perhaps because of them — I had never seen her look so radiant . |
| 11 | She had never seen her mother 's withered leg ; indeed , imagining it had fuelled some of the worst nightmares of her childhood , worse even than Afghanistan which was at least safely half a world anyway , not just down a corridor , released from its sheath of leather and metal , grotesque and awful . |
| 12 | I had never seen them before ; relatives summoned from the north of the country , perhaps . |
| 13 | I knew of the Knowlton Circles in Dorset but I had never seen them , although I had seen an air photograph . |
| 14 | I had never seen them before and they obviously came from some very rural place in the Apennines . |
| 15 | Howarth stared at the two dummies as if he had never seen them before . |
| 16 | The laddies back there had never seen them before . |
| 17 | When I came across Kathleen Woodward 's Jipping Street I read it with the shocked amazement of one who had never seen what she knew written down before . |
| 18 | Jane had never seen him so depressed , his anger frequently spilling over into words to her , as the dwellings went up with hideous and indecent haste , flaunting a flag : ‘ Waterloo Homes ’ right next to his drive . |
| 19 | Now he was starting to cry , and I had never seen him cry before . |
| 20 | Mungo had never seen him so cheerful , even though he had failed to buy anything for himself . |
| 21 | The children had never seen him embarrassed before . |
| 22 | She had never seen him with his hair cut short , and the absence of the red-blond locks made him for a moment unrecognisable . |
| 23 | Franco had never seen him so drunk and , although Maidstone 's intake of alcohol had often been greater on past occasions , this time he just went to pieces . |
| 24 | Abel was now nine and his grandfather had never seen him . |
| 25 | She had never seen him in this mood before , but the expression on his face was familiar . |
| 26 | Benny had stared at him as if she had never seen him before . |
| 27 | She had never seen him dressed as he was this morning . |
| 28 | And strangely enough she felt that she knew him but that was absurd , she had never seen him before . |
| 29 | I had never seen him before in my life . |
| 30 | Carver had never seen him smile . |