Example sentences of "[vb past] never known him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never known him believe in anything before , so it was an amazing novelty to find him literally staking his life on the principle of absolute patriarchal authority . |
| 2 | Round about four o'clock he did a thing I 'd never known him do since I got there — he started to play his guitar . |
| 3 | From the grave he could make a girl like her , who had never known him , feel extremes of emotion . |
| 4 | ( 109 ) I had never known him ask a favour of this kind before . |
| 5 | There are numerous examples of the operative sense construed with to in British English as well : ( 112 ) I had never known him to pass the garden-gate before . |