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Example sentences for "had never seen before"

  • Everything happened just as Jamila had foretold; when one or two watches of the night had passed, he saw that the open ground around him was full of such stately and splendid animals as he had never seen before.

  • There was a tree such as he had never seen before; its branches were alike, but it bore flowers and fruit of a thousand kinds.

  • There was no room, however small, she did not lead him into, and each room was full of curious things he had never seen before.

  • The children, playing in the street where he had lived, he had never seen before.

  • I saw the next-door garden lie, Adorned with flowers, before my eye, And many pleasant faces more That I had never seen before.

  • Mr. Pickering I had never seen before; so I could not tell whether or no he bore himself as usual.

  • When the lieutenant came he was one I had never seen before, nor he me; and he too asked me what I wanted with Mr. Chiffinch.

  • By and bye, taking notice of the capers, which he had never seen before, took one upon his trencher, cut it in the middle, and put the half of it in his mouth.

  • I had never seen before, nor is there any great matter in it.

  • To the Park, where I saw how far they had proceeded in the Pell-mell, and in making a river through the Park, which I had never seen before since it was begun.

  • Friday, the 12th of May, was distinguished by a visit from some ladies whom we had never seen before, and who introduced themselves with very singular ceremonies.

  • Accordingly the next morning she came down to the beach, and soon after a great number of people, whom we had never seen before, brought to market provisions of every kind; and the gunner sent off fourteen hogs, and fruit in great plenty.

  • I saw a look in her eyes that I had never seen before.

  • I had seen, as I had never seen before, into the hearts of two people--into that of the Vicar of the parish, and into the heart of a simple woman.

  • I passed the little fissure which led to the cave again, and this time I saw what I had never seen before.

  • I was in a kind of a room, but it was such a room as I had never seen before.

  • He was in a room he had never seen before.

  • He peered at the shadowy figure for a moment and decided that it was a bear, but a bear such as he had never seen before.

  • Then Owl Carver took both Auguste's hands in his, and Auguste noticed something he had never seen before.

  • We passed over a sort of open down, from which all vegetation had been cleared, save the Palmistes--such a wood of them as I had never seen before.

  • If a Gentile is willing to help a Jew, and one whom he had never seen before, you should not hesitate, either.

  • There were swarms of strange insects on the road, creatures I had never seen before.

  • At last, he declared, he was picked up by a great ship such as he had never seen before, though of this ship he recalled little.

  • It was of a sort that I had never seen before, though experts to whom I have shown it say that it is certainly South American of a very early date, and like the ornaments, probably pre-Inca Peruvian.

  • He hit the ball a crack the like of which I had never seen before.

  • A red woollen muffler was wound several times round his neck, and his capacious person was enveloped in an enormous overcoat, the like of which I had never seen before.

  • You may judge of my astonishment when I was again able to look out of my own eyes, to find myself being held, as if I were a baby, or a doll, in the arms of a perfect giant of a man, whom I had never seen before.

  • He was in the jarl's own chamber, and with him were Thiodolf and a young scald named Harek, who sat with things for writing before him, which was what I had never seen before.

  • Inside the great tent was like a round hall, carpeted, and tapestry-hung in a way I had never seen before.

  • There was also a number of young Court ladies, many of whom I had never seen before.

  • Next, the daughters of the high Manchu officials and many other people whom I had never seen before.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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