Example sentences of "[noun] had never [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Denis , in his nine years in the United States had never really taken to baseball . |
| 2 | In his own mind , Richard Branson had never fully abandoned journalism . |
| 3 | ‘ There were the customary acclamations from the populace as I rode in procession to the Guildhall this morning — indeed it seemed to me that my subjects had never before greeted me with such enthusiasm , ’ Edward told her , gazing into the fire as if reliving the morning 's events . |
| 4 | She realised that the pain and shock of that loss had never truly healed . |
| 5 | While Mary Tudor lived , the Protestants in Scotland had never actually given up , but as long as England as well as France and Spain was Catholic , all they could hope for was survival ; and there was no point in preferring an English alliance to a French one . |
| 6 | What Gould had never fully recognised , until the rapturous reception of the Beagle 's return , was the international acclaim attached to this kind of voyage , which could , it seemed , make a hero out of anyone . |
| 7 | ( His parents had never even noticed the faint scratches . |
| 8 | Her parents had never really lived anywhere : they had inhabited studios and cottages and areas of other people 's houses and spent all their leisure time , which had been considerable , in pubs with other flamboyant artists and a few bitter intellectuals who were endlessly aggrieved at the turn the world was taking . |
| 9 | Julius , who during their brief engagement and marriage had never even told her he loved her . |
| 10 | Ellie had never really given her shape much thought up until that moment . |
| 11 | The force , the weight and heat of Fenna 's will was no small thing , and Maggie had never before tried to resist it . |
| 12 | When they returned , having taken in a fair part of Sutherland , they swore that their feet had never once left Ross-shire soil . |
| 13 | However , she did not realize that the old lady had never even heard about the family connection . |
| 14 | So maybe the relationship between her and Ross had never really stood a chance . |
| 15 | Unfortunately the wretched girl had never even turned up . |
| 16 | This was an asset of a kind which Russia had never hitherto possessed . |
| 17 | A recent survey showed that two-thirds of French small businessmen had never even heard of patents or trade marks . |
| 18 | Thirty-one of my trial team had never previously attempted to slim yet 25 of them said they lost inches from areas they considered a real problem and particularly wanted to reduce . |
| 19 | His clerical grey trousers had never completely recovered from their immersion in the puddle in which Dulcie 's sly butting had landed him . |
| 20 | Matilda had never once stopped to think about where Miss Honey might be living . |
| 21 | Matilda had never before seen a boy , or anyone else for that matter , held aloft by his ears alone . |
| 22 | Killion had never even thought about it . |
| 23 | The UN had never before mounted such a complex and expensive peace-keeping operation , and after an uncertain start [ see pp. 36576-77 ] its role as facilitator was widely approved . |
| 24 | But assumptions , as she 'd discovered that day , could be dangerous , and Isabelle had never actually stated where she was born . |
| 25 | Hans had never really recovered from a near fatal case of tuberculosis as a child which had subsequently left him susceptible to infection . |
| 26 | Tom had never before ridden pillion on a motorbike , but Andy the neighbour had a spare crash helmet . |
| 27 | In spite of our interest in island life , and all our new experiences there , my wife had never really settled down to the complete contrast in living conditions . |
| 28 | Gerald was always being chided for something or other : his wife had never entirely lost her Portuguese liking for matriarchal discipline , order and cleanliness — qualities that were not often found among the Husseys . |
| 29 | For Miles those priorities had never really existed . |
| 30 | In April 1982 , a Task Force of warships and marines set sail from British ports to dispute with a tin-pot dictatorship the ownership of a territory on the other side of the world , of which many Britons had never before heard . |