Example sentences of "i [vb base] never seen [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've never seen him . |
| 2 | Jimmy says , ‘ I 've never seen him before in my life . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've never seen him before in my life , ’ I said . |
| 4 | " I 've never seen him before , I 'm sure . |
| 5 | ‘ No , I 've never seen him , ’ I answered . |
| 6 | ‘ I like Dickon , although I 've never seen him . ’ |
| 7 | " I 've never seen him speak to anyone . |
| 8 | We 've always been a rather loosely-knit family , and I 've never seen him . ’ |
| 9 | I 've never seen him but Grace has , have n't you Grace — ’ |
| 10 | I 've never seen him in a flap , or anything less than pleasant whether dealing with an actor who 's completely shaved his head only a few days before shooting a strict continuity commercial , or calming down the ‘ real ’ Rene Goodman who has rung the Sun to complain that the latest BT commercial takes her name in vain , and people keep asking if she 's getting divorced . |
| 11 | ‘ But I must say I 've never seen him quite so — ’ |
| 12 | In battle he 's unstoppable , but I 've never seen him kill a man in cold blood before . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've known Rohan a long time , but I 've never seen him this way with a woman before , or with such immediacy . |
| 14 | I 've never seen him like this before . |
| 15 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've never seen him drunk . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 've never seen him like this . |
| 18 | I 've never seen him . ’ |
| 19 | I 've never seen him in before tonight . ’ |
| 20 | I 've never seen him go so mad , far worse than the usual Saturday night when he had lost all his money gambling and came home so drunk that we all had to hide under the bed . |
| 21 | I 've never seen him like this though , I 've never se he has n't shaved for about four days . |
| 22 | I 've , I 've never ever known him to iron anything ever since I 've been you know , little , I 've never seen him iron anything but me mum was in fits because he 'd even ironed the socks so she said she did n't have the heart to tell him that she does n't usually bother with the ruddy socks , but er the thought was there was n't it ? |
| 23 | I do n't know I 've never seen him , but |
| 24 | and he would have all these wee men and like different huts , and this is all set out and he 's a brilliant drawer , I 've never seen him draw |
| 25 | I 've never seen them walk round the flats , I 've seen the odd one or two with the security guards , |
| 26 | ‘ I 've never seen them before . ’ |
| 27 | Gina turned on her aunt in irritation : ‘ I tell you I 've never seen them before and I 've no idea where they came from . ’ |
| 28 | For me coming from Africa where locusts eat our crops all the time I 've never seen them like this . |
| 29 | I 've never seen them . |
| 30 | Oh I 've never seen them . |