Example sentences of "'d never [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd never liked the dark . |
| 2 | I was a new face in the orchestra , very inexperienced , I 'd never played the piece , though I 'd studied it and practised my part . |
| 3 | Jay 's hand played a sonata she 'd never seen the score for . |
| 4 | That fucking bitch would wish she 'd never seen the book or him or anything to do with it . |
| 5 | But I 'd never seen the real thing . |
| 6 | He wishes he 'd never made the recording . |
| 7 | I 'd never felt the strength of this emotion called love before . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | There was a Haydnish sonata , a gentle piano tracking up and back in patterns which you could half anticipate even if you 'd never heard the piece before . |
| 10 | There was a spattering of noise at her window that could only be thrown gravel , although she 'd never heard the sound before . |
| 11 | As a young ‘ MID ’ Energy Technician he 'd never questioned the creation of these artificial divisions . |
| 12 | He 'd never given the impression of being a dog lover . |
| 13 | Charles hedged by saying that he 'd never imagined the BEF would be at all like this . |
| 14 | Manolo had always known there were men in suits behind the Surf Nazis , but he 'd never carried the vendetta to them . |
| 15 | Her choice of career had surprised and confused the students competing against her for jobs , but she 'd never allowed the unspoken disapproval that had surrounded her to deter her from her goal . |
| 16 | Somehow , he had never thought that Hess had had this in him , he 'd never thought the flight would ever — to coin a phrase — get off the ground . |
| 17 | I 'll probably wish I 'd never mentioned the matter , but it seems necessary to me at the moment , so there it is . |
| 18 | That was the first time she 'd acknowledged the truth of the malai presence ; we 'd never mentioned the disappearances . |
| 19 | She 'd never caught the French trick of eating slowly , relishing the food . |
| 20 | He 'd never shown the slightest interest in any other woman — any decent woman . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ The album was going to be called NO BOLLOCKS ! , ’ laughs Cris Bonacci , ‘ but in the end we decided to call it simply Girlschool , because we realised we 'd never used the name of the band as a title before … ’ |
| 23 | I 'd never enjoyed the media interest and the goldfish-bowl aspect of driving , and while I was grateful to have fans their continual invasion of my privacy got me down . |
| 24 | I do n't know , I always said I 'd never took the piss out of these children , but I 'm sure I must have done at school , but I must admit I was embarrassed . |
| 25 | I wish I 'd never got the beastly thing . ’ |
| 26 | If only they 'd never left the basement with the empty meat-safe hanging outside the window . |
| 27 | ‘ How could a scrap of a woman who 'd never left the country get mixed up with some crazy Venetian ? |
| 28 | She should have thrown it out years ago but somehow she 'd never had the heart . |
| 29 | She was sure she 'd never found the scent of cooking food so seductive . |
| 30 | He 'd never found the Gun , of course ; they were very clever , very clever and cunning indeed . |