Example sentences of "[noun pl] had never [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | ( His parents had never even noticed the faint scratches . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When they returned , having taken in a fair part of Sutherland , they swore that their feet had never once left Ross-shire soil . |
| 5 | A recent survey showed that two-thirds of French small businessmen had never even heard of patents or trade marks . |
| 6 | His clerical grey trousers had never completely recovered from their immersion in the puddle in which Dulcie 's sly butting had landed him . |
| 7 | For Miles those priorities had never really existed . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Nonetheless , manufacturers are still not pushing the business benefits of technology to any great extent — some 80% of those questioned said that bidding vendors had never formally evaluated what they should invest in from a strategic point of view . |
| 10 | He later discovered that most of these scenes had never actually occurred and had been fantasies of the patient . |
| 11 | The first seven frames had never quite pointed to such a convincing victory but once Hendry had forged clear at 6-3 , the writing was on the wall for his Bangkok challenger . |
| 12 | Many thousands of children had never even seen , let alone owned a pair of shoes . |
| 13 | Most of the children had never even seen a banana before let alone tasted one . |
| 14 | That could however have been also due to the fact that on her third night in this world , although the Germans had never previously visited Hertfordshire , we got a bomb on the front of the hospital . |