Example sentences of "had never [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remembered that they had never flown in a light aircraft before today ; I shuddered to think of what could happen if they panicked . |
| 2 | The Pétains had never boasted of a military tradition . |
| 3 | One shaikh said he had never intervened in a notorious internal quarrel because ‘ they would say I was a shaikh ’ . |
| 4 | Right from the beginning she had never talked like a fifteen-year-old girl . |
| 5 | ‘ When I arrived I could n't speak a word of Spanish , did n't know anything about the photographic scene in Madrid and had never worked as a professional photographer before , so it was n't the easiest of situations to begin with . ’ |
| 6 | He said he had never come across a clearer , more perfect case , with so many vital details so well remembered . |