Example sentences of "had never [verb] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had never seen a credit card , and indeed he was not looking at one now . |
| 2 | It is possible that the young Evelyn , who had never seen a Court masque , was easily impressed . |
| 3 | At first she could n't believe it ; she had never seen a man cry before . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest . |
| 6 | Amaranth , thank God , looked like the sort of woman who had never seen a vacuum cleaner in her life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Melanie had never seen a dog belch before . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had never seen the time machine looking so ordinary . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Phyllis had never seen the check-out girl before . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Scott would bet that he had never worn the snakeskin overcoat Annabel had given him the Christmas before . |
| 16 | When I say that Dolores had never heard the term gig before joining the band I am not taking the piss or ridiculing her . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 20 | The defendant was drunk , had never passed a driving test , was uninsured and drove dangerously . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Kragan did n't add that he had never trusted the newspaper proprietor who sat on the council . |
| 23 | He said he had never known a child die of an epileptic fit . |
| 24 | Naturally gifted as he was , the Japanese boy had never taken a golf lesson . |
| 25 | Lewin , of Toxteth , who had never taken a driving test and was already banned for stealing cars , admitted manslaughter . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Beans had never had a family doctor . |