Example sentences of "[vb past] never [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never seen Mum dance before , but she slipped out of her sandals and danced with Auntie Jean to the Jackson Five . |
| 2 | I 'd never seen sugar nor fruit . |
| 3 | She 'd never seen Ace showing the slightest sign of domesticity in either his London flat or the Monaco apartment . |
| 4 | I 'd never met gangrene before . |
| 5 | it 's always a bit a it came home to me with great a vigour and enthusiasm when I was walking round the kitting station at R A F Innsworth with a supermarket trolley getting it filled with kit and when I got to the end they handed me my dog tags and my gun , I thought what have I let myself in for because I 'd never worn dog tags before and I 'd never had a gun with live ammunition in it that got strapped to my hip and you suddenly realise , I 'm going into a real war it was quite a nerve racking experience for a few days |
| 6 | I 'd never made head or tail of it myself . |
| 7 | But these scabs went back and made slates , and there was erm two officials there , they they 'd never made slate when we were working up there . |
| 8 | He 'd never felt skin like that , velvet skin , warm and slippery skin that absorbed him into her . |
| 9 | She 'd never felt jealousy before … |
| 10 | and you 'd never done multiplication you 'd find it very hard . |
| 11 | No matter how tedious she was in other ways , he had always assumed that it was n't in her nature to be coarse , and certainly she 'd never displayed evidence of the inclination . |
| 12 | I 'd never eaten breakfast on weekdays before , and I used to be starving by lunch-time and pig out . |
| 13 | SHe 'd never begged help off anyone before — had n't needed to . |
| 14 | He 'd never told Mum about the words he 'd had with the relief officers , which was a blessing really because she would never have shut up about it . |
| 15 | She 'd never experienced crime until 6 weeks ago when a young woman kept her talking in the garden while her accomplice rifled her home . |
| 16 | He 'd never had affection so he could n't give it . |
| 17 | ‘ Mellor was besotted with me because he 'd never had sex like it ’ |
| 18 | Of course , he 'd never had time to make friends . |
| 19 | She 'd never had cause to fear a man , but now she felt oddly threatened . |
| 20 | Cedric had been just too young for the war , and for this he had never forgiven Fate . |
| 21 | He had never studied anatomy very closely . |
| 22 | She thought that McAllister had never seen misery before , and that her response to it was a warm and loving one — and practical , too . |
| 23 | She had never seen Ianthe handing out books to the ill-mannered grubby students and cranks of all ages who frequented the library of political and sociological books where she worked . |
| 24 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |
| 25 | I had never seen water that was that blue . |
| 26 | He had never seen hair of such a full , glowing gold , or a fairer brow underneath it . |
| 27 | And at the foot of the iron structure was a high steel fender , suggesting from its dull surface that it had never seen emery paper since the day it left the foundry . |
| 28 | I had never seen Squire Trelawney so near . |
| 29 | He had never seen fear more clearly written on human faces and for a brief second he was puzzled . |
| 30 | He waited until Berthon — with whom Rudd had never seen eye to eye — took a holiday and grafted a new front end on to Jean Behra 's car . |