Example sentences of "[vb past] never [verb] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angalo had found a pebble that was almost the right shape to attach to a twig with strips torn off his coat ; he 'd never seen a stone axe in his life , but he had a definite feeling that there were useful things that could be done with a stone tied to the end of a stick . |
| 2 | He also agreed he 'd never seen a skull fracture caused by a blow to the nose . |
| 3 | ‘ Although I did n't have any live playing experience — I 'd never done the youth club/dance band/pub/club thing — I still felt that I was technically quite good , having evolved my style from playing along to records . |
| 4 | But in a brand new fitted dress into which I 'd climbed only two hours earlier , and in which I 'd never attempted the sitting position let alone … well to cut a long and visually absurd story short , I was about as likely to have a pee in that dress as I was to share a bagel with Adnan Kashoggi . |
| 5 | They 'd never had a Christmas day quite like that before . |
| 6 | There were thousands of paparazzi and fans because they 'd never had a world premiere in Houston before . |
| 7 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 8 | She 'd never known the Lobster Pot to have so much atmosphere . |
| 9 | He had never seen a credit card , and indeed he was not looking at one now . |
| 10 | It is possible that the young Evelyn , who had never seen a Court masque , was easily impressed . |
| 11 | At first she could n't believe it ; she had never seen a man cry before . |
| 12 | We had never seen a soffit ventilator before , and had only a vague idea about dry-verge ridging , but the excellent catalogues and leaflets provided most of the instructions we needed . |
| 13 | I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest . |
| 14 | Amaranth , thank God , looked like the sort of woman who had never seen a vacuum cleaner in her life . |
| 15 | Being as Liverpool had never seen a skate comp before , the atmosphere at Dan-Z 's was riotous — even though it was only a mini ramp . |
| 16 | Melanie had never seen a dog belch before . |
| 17 | He paused in the doorway , because it was rare to see the High Queen without at least a dozen courtiers ; certainly he had never seen the Sun Chamber like this , bathed in the glow from the dying day , alive with the strong , pure magic of the Purple Hour , the huge crystal windows that looked out over all Ireland ablaze with light . |
| 18 | She had never seen the time machine looking so ordinary . |
| 19 | When questioned , Mr Bence said he had never seen the trophy cabinet in his life , and was at a loss to explain how it came to be in the director 's Portakabin . |
| 20 | Phyllis had never seen the check-out girl before . |
| 21 | Wilson had tried this first , with ‘ In Place of Strife ’ , but fortunately for Labour these proposals had never reached the statute book since union opposition was internalised within the party . |
| 22 | I was first taken to see these ‘ houses ’ by my father when I was nine ; I have often wondered since then why they had never become a tourist attraction . |
| 23 | Scott would bet that he had never worn the snakeskin overcoat Annabel had given him the Christmas before . |
| 24 | When I say that Dolores had never heard the term gig before joining the band I am not taking the piss or ridiculing her . |
| 25 | One touching moment during a Love Feast in Edenderry was once when a visitor to the service , who had never attended a Love Feast before but who had felt he wished to share in it , stood and held up half the biscuit he had been given . |
| 26 | Although Chapman was by now a famous man , and his name was familiar to thousands who had never attended a football match , on a social level he remained as affable and unassuming as the next man . |
| 27 | A MAN who complained of 17 years of hounding by the television licensing authority although he had never owned a TV set won a remarkable legal battle and £5,500 expenses yesterday . |
| 28 | The defendant was drunk , had never passed a driving test , was uninsured and drove dangerously . |
| 29 | This was compounded by her belief that her normal examination ( aged 34 ) meant that neither she nor her children were at risk , and she had never discussed the family history with them . |
| 30 | Kragan did n't add that he had never trusted the newspaper proprietor who sat on the council . |