Example sentences of "[vb past] never [vb pp] a [noun] [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 | They 'd never had a Christmas day quite like that before . |
| 4 | There were thousands of paparazzi and fans because they 'd never had a world premiere in Houston before . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In all his years he 'd never known an August day quite like it . |
| 7 | He had never seen a credit card , and indeed he was not looking at one now . |
| 8 | It is possible that the young Evelyn , who had never seen a Court masque , was easily impressed . |
| 9 | Sir Alexander Cadogan , made chairman in 1952 , had never seen a BBC television programme , and the ones he had seen , in the United States , he did n't much care for . |
| 10 | The executive took care not to let it slip out that he had never seen a DPR contract note . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The document names him as a sponsor of an Irish Freedom Movement troops-out rally , but Mr Campbell said he had never supported a troops-out policy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The defendant was drunk , had never passed a driving test , was uninsured and drove dangerously . |
| 22 | He said he had never known a child die of an epileptic fit . |
| 23 | Naturally gifted as he was , the Japanese boy had never taken a golf lesson . |
| 24 | Lewin , of Toxteth , who had never taken a driving test and was already banned for stealing cars , admitted manslaughter . |
| 25 | He took his account of the little balance as well as some research on centres of gravity and travelled to Rome to impress a couple of eminent intellectuals , and he succeeded , being appointed professor of mathematics at Pisa when he was 25 , though he had never had a university degree . |
| 26 | The Beans had never had a family doctor . |