Example sentences of "never seen a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The citizens of Kettering had never seen a better ring , In fact no better pair of 'em " Take care of " me ! " they cried . |
| 2 | Paige could only admit that she had never seen a better male specimen . |
| 3 | Did er , Tom like the I 've never seen a better one th have you ? |
| 4 | I 'd never seen a female naked . |
| 5 | I 've never seen a blacker car in my life ! |
| 6 | To see that this is the case , annotate each term below to say whether it belongs to the typical register of the birthday card or the register of the legal contract ( even if you have never seen a legal contract you can probably do this ) . |
| 7 | I 've seen dust before but and bits of fluff and rag and stuff but I 've never seen a bloody , and a nail damn great screw ! |
| 8 | I have never seen a male manager in tears . |
| 9 | But she has never seen a real hummingbird . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've never seen a real cow , ’ he said to himself . |
| 11 | I never went to one , I 'd never seen a live band that actually wrote their own stuff . |
| 12 | Hewlett , predictably , has ‘ never seen a worse church ’ . |
| 13 | He took to pacing the streets of London , very often in the poorer areas , in all weathers , alone , seldom speaking to anyone but staring , staring as if he had never seen a poor person in his life before . |
| 14 | Hi-Tec ( never seen a good pair yet ) |
| 15 | I had never seen a big sea-bird colony before . |
| 16 | Oliver had never seen a dirtier or more miserable place . |
| 17 | ‘ You know I 've never seen a dead body before , ’ Laura murmured . |
| 18 | I put my hands over my eyes to shut out my fears : I 'd never seen a dead person before . |
| 19 | Many of the 2,000-plus troops were teenagers who had never seen a dead body before , let alone large-scale massacres . |
| 20 | Rumour has it he 's getting wilder and wilder as time goes on — and I 've never seen a wild man before . |
| 21 | In Jamaica I had never seen a white person ; to us youngsters they were an unknown quantity . |
| 22 | I 'd never seen a white blues band playing so good and this kid , Jimmie Vaughan , was playing some of the most devastating guitar I 've ever heard in my life . |
| 23 | I had never seen a happy jogger and I was not ill . |
| 24 | The XJ speeds north over the road-bridge , no lights or siren on but we clip along and it 's the smoothest fucking motorway journey I 've ever had ; just a total hassle-free zone creaming along around the ton with no worries about unmarked police cars and hoo-wee the traffic in front of us just fucking evaporates ; man , just brakes ( and wobbles sometimes as the guy probably gets the cold sweats and the wo-where'd-my-stomach-go ? feeling ) , swings meekly left and brakes again ; you 've never seen a beefy BMW 5-series duck in so fast in your life ; might as well all be driving 2CVs . |
| 25 | I ai n't never seen a false leg before . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've never seen a quicker boy . |
| 27 | — Amadou has never seen a beautiful white starwoman like this , and she speaks to him in a soft low voice like the south breeze stirring in the palms , like it does just before the sun sets . |
| 28 | On 24 May 1988 , the last bit of meat went out the door , and an hour later I felt I 'd never seen a T-bone steak ! ’ |
| 29 | She 'd never seen anyone so transfixed , but then he 'd never seen a naked woman before . |
| 30 | " What are you looking at ? " she teased , " have you never seen a naked woman before ? " |