Example sentences of "i had never [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	I had never seen a man deliberately killed before and I was more scared even than I had been before .
2	I had never seen a kiln fired before and the unpredictable behaviour of live flame could only add to the already restless sensuality of the afternoon .
3	I had never seen a horse breathe like this .
4	I had never seen a police launch , but this one had an unmistakably official look about it , and in size and speed would be more than a match for either Stormy Petrel or Sea Otter .
5	This caused a needle to bend to an angle at which I had never seen a needle before !
6	I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest .
7	I had never done a drawing solely in watercolour crayons before , and so the whole piece of work was a challenge from beginning to end to end .
8	And I had never heard a voice so cruel and cold .
9	Previously I had never heard a nightingale ; here they sang throughout the night beneath our windows .
10	Out of a crowd of more than three hundred I noticed Sir Jocelyn Lucas , with whom I had never exchanged a word , making his way determinedly in my direction , and I watched him breast the wave like Captain Webb , twisting and turning .
11	I had never taken a record and listened to them , even though they were labelled ‘ progressive ’ rock .
12	Like most of my generation , I had never known a war , had never had fear rammed down my throat time and time again like the older generation .
13	I had never known a woman by that name .
14	I had never caught a salmon .
15	My father died erm sixteen years ago and I was put on to tranquillizers , up until that point I had never needed a drug in my life , and I was put onto tranquillizers and I had a terrible experience !
16	I was what I felt unconsciously I had never had a chance to be : a little girl .
17	I had never edited a fanzine and never heard anything by SPK or Bunny Wailer .

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