Example sentences of "had never [verb] [prep] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Write my memoirs ? ’ she said , and smiled , but such a smile as Erika had never seen on her grandmother 's face before : wry , mocking , and , shockingly , cynical . |
| 2 | That evening , as we walked through the village that Eric had never seen on our way to the orphanage , I felt proud and happy that he had come back . |
| 3 | The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life . |
| 4 | had never wept in your life . |
| 5 | I had never gone to my room this early . |
| 6 | Aunt Margaret told her to dress herself in her nicest dress and Melanie put on a dress she had never worn in her uncle 's house , a best dress from the old days , dark green corduroy with lace at the neck . |
| 7 | Fortunately , she had never fallen into our clutches . |
| 8 | But as he did the wind caught at him even more mightily than before ; there was the sense of commotion and movement in the air and out of the darkness behind him came a terrible crack , a heave and a bang and whoosh such as he had never heard in his life . |
| 9 | Muldoon was beginning to get an uncomfortable feeling that he was pushing his opinions too far , something he had never done in his life . |
| 10 | He felt drugged , by her perfume and her presence ; he felt … like he had never felt in his life before . |
| 11 | She slept until Annunziata came to call her soon after five with a bowl of zabaglione , which Julia had never tasted until her illness . |
| 12 | In fact , Michael had never talked to his son about politics , labelling him good-naturedly as an idle playboy . |
| 13 | It seems that the other staff member had never spoken to her employer on the subject , though she had opportunity to do so . |
| 14 | And yet they had never spoken of their father 's death . |
| 15 | Heather had never spoken of her friend Zohra Labrooy , or of any other friend come to that . |
| 16 | I could only be glad that I had never spoken of my plan to Joe , when he was looking after me . |
| 17 | Old Eugene had never worked in his life due to what he said was a bad heart , but he never lacked in daring and was never afraid to take a gamble . |
| 18 | I should have realised that from the fact that Micky said ‘ Oh Lord ’ — an expression , incidentally , that was n't in the script of the play and that he had never used in his life — before he turned round from the Hooded Owl and looked into the wings . |
| 19 | All of a sudden things that you had never discussed with your parents come into the forefront of things . |
| 20 | I had never thought about my father , about meeting him , not knowing , and something like this happening , and now I saw it was possible , the desire to laugh became a fearful compulsion . |
| 21 | The Norfolk worsted manufacture , unique in having spread from Norwich to an arable farming district , had always remained dispersed in small units without great clothiers and had never recovered from its recession in the previous century . |
| 22 | Cecilia had passed Cambridge School several thousand times and been inside it several hundred times but she had never got over her feelings of loathing it . |
| 23 | The poor little cat had never got over its terror of flying , and Mildred always had to prise it from the broomstick whenever she arrived anywhere . |