Example sentences of "[conj] had never " in BNC.
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| 1 | These perceptions and feelings were to be examined qualitatively rather than by means of any standardised measures , since it was felt that such complex issues could not be ( or had never successfully been ) encapsulated in a standardised scale . |
| 2 | In spite of Amritsar , he announced himself willing to co-operate with the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms which were unveiled at the end of the year , and only changed his mind as the degree of Dyer 's support in British public opinion was borne in upon him , and as he began to find himself isolated by the more radical elements in Congress , who had either already lost their faith in the British , or had never had any . |
| 3 | Gradually Adam would discover where and how each woman liked to be touched , and he would change his techniques to suit her , then move on to something that she was n't expecting or had never experienced . |
| 4 | Suppose that the misdirected letter of acceptance had taken two months on its way , or had never arrived . |
| 5 | She had a fistful of tiny flowers , and made me wait patiently while she described them all , making up her own names when she forgot or had never learned the real ones . |
| 6 | It was a language that had never failed ; it had no ambiguities ; it could cope with all emergencies . |
| 7 | Until yesterday , the only hole at Augusta that had never been eagled was the 205-yard fourth . |
| 8 | I have run in more than 30 cities , including places that had never seen a runner before . |
| 9 | The early 19th century saw a chemical revolution in the emergent paint industry , inspired by experiments subsidised by the French government , resulting in colours that had never been manufactured before . |
| 10 | With the Falklands War in 1982 — conventional warfare such as no one expected to see again — there surfaced memories that had never been buried very deep . |
| 11 | What was it that these two friends of his felt for women that had never touched him ? |
| 12 | He was oddly sluggish and lazy , more like a leery veteran than a horse that had never seen a racecourse . |
| 13 | He saw the moving mouth of the man so nearly dead ; the stain on the waistcoat , and felt a strengthening of the foreboding that had never left him . |
| 14 | His love for Kay was one love that had never spoiled . |
| 15 | He felt snapped back into a past that had never happened . |
| 16 | These contained a number of allegations that had never been raised with her at all . |
| 17 | And by ‘ them ’ he meant the English who identified with a country and a people that had never accepted them . |
| 18 | It was something that had never happened before and she stood for a moment trying to control the thoughts that raced through her head . |
| 19 | But immediately , the burden of the territorial and other material possessions of his church weighed upon him in a way that had never been evident at Bec under the relaxed rule of Duke Robert of Normandy . |
| 20 | Furthermore , quite irrationally , some retired husbands begin to harbour dire suspicions about their wives ' working colleagues , imagining romantic entanglements that had never crossed their minds before . |
| 21 | Philadelphia stood on the edge of land that had never been occupied by Europeans , and so the Pennsylvanians had to work out their relations with the Indians . |
| 22 | Ludicrous though the description might sound in print , for an organisation that had never numbered more than sixty followers and had rarely mustered more than twenty , it was strictly accurate and hardly to be dismissed by a regime uniquely devoted to National Socialism . |
| 23 | Clara , as she ran for the Métro , was full of the greatest joy of her life , for she felt herself to be , at last , living ; the thick complexity of what had happened satisfied something in her that had never before had satisfaction . |
| 24 | " There was , " she said , a little boy in him that had never been released . |
| 25 | Patrick walked to her and pulled her red wool dress over her head , exposing her tiny naked breasts that had never really needed a brassiere , and her lower body , encased in black tights . |
| 26 | Yet it together with the other numerous Somerset railways knitted town and country together in a way that had never been achieved before . |
| 27 | Some shivered in the cold breeze of change : others struck out boldly , with a sense of freedom , glad to be unencumbered by out-of-date gear and padding , glad to cast off notions that had never seemed to themselves to be smart or necessary : naked into the stream , exhilarated , the new emerging race . |
| 28 | Here she was , sounding , even to her own ears , like a puritanical Swiss burgher , imposing a moral code on Sylvie that had never been hers ; forcing her into a mould which was alien to everything that made her Sylvie . |
| 29 | Many had been the voyages of discovery she had made in this — the most powerful spacecraft that had never been built , and never will be . |
| 30 | Waves of data seethed in at her filtered through recognition systems that had never been hers . |