Example sentences of "never see " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's climbed here often on such days , and so have I , and you never see or hear another soul . |
| 2 | The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act , reviving an older myth , to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another , much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by ‘ sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat ’ is a movement away from a first situation ( that of Ariadne on Naxos ) which we never see in itself ; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other , but also of that first situation which , because a ‘ myth ’ and so subject to constant reinterpretation , may never have happened in any of the ways presented , if indeed it ever took place at all . |
| 3 | What such an identification involved becomes apparent in Prisoner in a passage which renders the crucial difference not one of colour , yet by the same criterion reinstates the distinction between blacks and whites : ‘ What separates us from the Blacks today is not so much the colour of our skin or the type of our hair as the phantom-ridden psyche we never see except when a Black lets fall some joking and to us cryptic phrase . |
| 4 | I do n't think he lives here , cos I never see him except in Ibrahim 's room . |
| 5 | We never see him round here , nor any of the Labour councillors , if it comes to that . |
| 6 | No , I never see him these days , never comes to Old Trafford . |
| 7 | ‘ I never see how they get the sales per square foot in these places , ’ Barton observed , without further greeting . |
| 8 | You never see the children either . ’ |
| 9 | I never see anyone from this place there . ’ |
| 10 | … I can hear but never see him telling me for the tenth or hundredth time the story of the Wiltshire moonrakers … and many another comic tale or rhyme . |
| 11 | On the Grimm , dark side of the fairytale hides an aspect the fawning fans never see . |
| 12 | Traditionally , Alsace wines never see new wood , and the appellation laws clearly preclude anything that might get in the way of ‘ fruit plus terroir ’ . |
| 13 | We never see him . ’ |
| 14 | One of them , Mr Bob Monkhouse , the entertainer , said : ‘ Nothing ever happens here and we never see the police unless our burglar alarm goes off unexpectedly . ’ |
| 15 | While marines machine gun his East Anglian air base , the deranged commander observes that , ‘ You never see a Commie drink a glass of water — and with good reason . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ You 've done something with a western that I 've never see before . |
| 17 | They never see the naturalists who work there , who ca n't speak Spanish anyway ; so they just see science and naturalism as a gringo thing . |
| 18 | Never see my native land again , mountains , moorlands and glens , apart from brief holiday excursions ? |
| 19 | Never see rod-spikes these days . |
| 20 | But you never see the horsy nubiles with black lace skimpy things showing through their white jodhs , because women know about these things , unfortunately . |
| 21 | ‘ D'ye know , Myles , ’ he said softly , ‘ it states on your hospital record that you are a Catholic , and yet I never see you at Mass . |
| 22 | The abundance of flowers meant butterflies , too , in a profusion which today , sadly , children never see . |
| 23 | Do you mean to tell me that you never see any case of obstruction , street shouting , begging , carts and cycles with no lights , no offences against the motor car laws , or in other words , that everybody — men , women , and children — know the laws so well that they can avoid the many pit-falls ? |
| 24 | ‘ You know as well as I do it 's a damned great industry — and there are plenty of facets to it that never see the light of day . |
| 25 | That she could abandon you — her four-year-old child — and never see you again ? |
| 26 | And this we never see . |
| 27 | Natural immunity to disease is lowered as animals are pumped full of antibiotics ; they are kept in cramped spaces often unable to turn around ; they are not provided with straw to lie on ; and they never see daylight . |
| 28 | Well I 've learnt a lesson good and proper and I 'ope I never see you again . ’ |
| 29 | They never see what you 've done , do they ? |
| 30 | He 'd never see his homeland again ; never see parents , sister … ’ |