This should not have surprised me, for I had never seen Father cry.

NEWYORKER: Naima

Vivian had never seen her father cry, and it frightened her a bit.

NEWYORKER: Temporary

He had never seen Jesus before, though his preacher-father and his mother often spoke with Him, and he knew Him as a friendly presence, unlike terrifying God.

ECONOMIST: Oral Roberts

She never asked her father about what she had seen.

NEWYORKER: Temporary

Mrs Jackson said her father, who is also a sheep farmer, had never seen a lamb as big as Joan before.

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