Example sentences of "have never seen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deacon 's structure involves two complementary shapes joined at right angles ; shapes that one has never seen before but one recognises as familiar . |
| 2 | In this city where everything is possible , and he cuts such a figure in his light suit and striped silk tie , and is 32 and full of self-confidence , and can walk up to a girl he has never seen before and with a disarming smile ask her when lighting-up time is — how can he be wearing a maroon crew-necked sweater , and cavalry twill trousers with turnups , and be 22 , and find himself running after a girl and being told that she may or may not see him tomorrow ? |
| 3 | She was more bothered than ever , for Timothy 's eyes had a dreamy look which she 'd never seen in them before , and he 'd lingered over the girl 's name whenever he had used it . |
| 4 | Most of the food was of a kind that she 'd never seen in the shops ; there was no wine or beer , but Belov had a hip-flask of vodka . |
| 5 | I was n't too keen on this cheek to cheek business , with men I 'd never seen before and did n't know the names of , but I kept on telling myself not to be standoffish and to relax a bit , but as for jiving — no , I could n't do that . |
| 6 | He even had on a collar and tie , which I 'd never seen before and which he would tug at every now and then as if it were too tight . |
| 7 | The FA are aware of Souness 's comments , particularly about referee Brian Hill , whom he accused of letting ‘ things go on which I 've never seen in my time back in England ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ There are some conditions here I 've never seen in my career or am ever likely to see again , ’ says one of the group 's doctors . |
| 9 | The pictures you 've never seen before |
| 10 | ‘ Write my memoirs ? ’ she said , and smiled , but such a smile as Erika had never seen on her grandmother 's face before : wry , mocking , and , shockingly , cynical . |
| 11 | He had gone on to a party at a rich woman 's house , he explained , and seen a display of drinks such as he had never seen on earth before . |
| 12 | That evening , as we walked through the village that Eric had never seen on our way to the orphanage , I felt proud and happy that he had come back . |
| 13 | Some of them I had never seen before and some were there to satisfy their curiosity . |
| 14 | I walked up to the bar , passing several people I had never seen before who were obviously volunteers . |
| 15 | A man she had never seen before or since came at night . |
| 16 | Bob , arriving at the office before Dyson one morning , found a man he had never seen before working at poor old Eddy 's desk . |
| 17 | He could think , with a brief twist of the old cynicism , that he had never seen inside Tara anyway and that he could not miss what he had never had . |
| 18 | She could see its possibilities straight away , something she had never seen in those gloomy other chambers . |
| 19 | ‘ Our problem was to convert audiences to accepting David in something they had never seen in him before , ’ said Mr Lawrence . |
| 20 | It made him difficult to fix , especially for eyes awash with brandy , the merest motion of his head breaking subtle waves against his bones , their spume draining back into his skin trailing colours Estabrook had never seen in flesh before . |
| 21 | There was also , she vaguely noted , in one corner a piano , and the windows had shutters of a kind that she had never seen in England . |
| 22 | Yet there was something else there , too — something that she had never seen in him before — and it touched her deeply . |
| 23 | The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life . |
| 24 | The effect was striking in its simplicity , its sobriety , while his face had a gentleness Li Yuan had never seen in it before . |
| 25 | Then I spotted them — superb orange orchids of a kind I had never seen in Danu . |
| 26 | Exploding into a temper , the sort of temper she had never seen in him before . |
| 27 | Eleanor , Aveling and Liebknecht wrote to another , We have never seen in Europe such wanton interference on the part of the police with the liberty of the subject as we saw today in a country proverbially known as ‘ the land of the free ’ . |
| 28 | This probably explains why little children favour tall animals , that they have never seen in reality , to animals that slither and scuffle across the ground . |
| 29 | To me the small group of birds on the sand-spit looked just like little terns , but it is a bird I have never seen in Shetland , so I am not familiar with it . |
| 30 | The autumn statement contains something that I have never seen in an autumn statement before — a chart designed to show not figures showing what might happen in the economy but estimates of consumer confidence based on Gallup poll evidence . |