Example sentences of "[pers pn] had never [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course we have books on herbs and mediaeval remedies , and my middle daughter is a vegetarian who grows her organic vegetables in the form of the letters CND and recycles her night soil , but I had never consciously meditated , relaxed , watched my diet , had any particular way of eating , consulted an acupuncturist , nor thought in holistic terms . |
| 2 | I had never consciously associated with what is called complementary medicine , and as the reader will have discovered , I have had little to do with any form of medicine . |
| 3 | In fact I had never even imagined life without fat so it was something of a challenge to create a very low fat diet for myself , first of all , and then for my slimmers — a diet which at the same time as being very low in fat included all the necessary nutrients . |
| 4 | I often wished later that I had named Trotsky instead , because his principles were more in accord with the way I felt about the place by the time I left , but at that time I had never even heard of him . |
| 5 | They pointed me towards writers I had never even heard of , let alone read . |
| 6 | I had never even seen a Muslim — apart , of course , from on the television , and the ones I had seen there — I will be absolutely frank — did not seem a particularly inspiring bunch ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The truth is that I had never even met him . ’ |
| 8 | It suddenly occurred to me that I had been so busy enjoying myself on the Mantela that I had never even opened either of them . |
| 9 | It seemed dreadful that I did n't know whether I loved him or not , that I had never even thought of it in those terms . |
| 10 | Quite soon after the note , I began to suspect — what I had never even thought about , for some naive reason — that I might be pregnant . |
| 11 | Faussone talks about ‘ the way we bent our elbows ’ — an expression ( for eating or drinking ) which I have heard spoken in English , but which I had never before seen written down in a book . |
| 12 | We visited Blackwell 's , such a bookshop as I had never before seen , and Vivien left with armfuls of books , and I , happy with one modest Penguin . |
| 13 | I had never before seen any Benedict 's sister do that . |
| 14 | I had never before seen such a soft light in those once proud eyes , or felt such a friendly touch of her once cold hand . |
| 15 | Now I had never before tried to regress anyone to a time when they were under the influence of anaesthetic , but I decided to do so on this occasion . |
| 16 | I had never fully appreciated what gens the Finzi set in particular contains , with the languorously beautiful ‘ Romance ’ — second of the five — sounding like a variation on the spiritual , Deep River , and the final ‘ Fughetta ’ a breezy and witty hornpipe . |
| 17 | Today , I was going to Corfu — I had never really wanted to go there , but one day I saw an advertisement in the newspaper . |
| 18 | I had never really felt it before or known what it meant . |
| 19 | I had also discovered that I had never really loved him . ’ |
| 20 | I had never really noticed before this common use of the label that identified me as a means to imply wilful ignorance . |
| 21 | ‘ I had never really grown up . ’ |
| 22 | But I had never really formed any ambition to become a Member of Parliament , I just talked about things which I love to talk about till all of a sudden one of the guests said : ‘ You want to be a Member of Parliament do n't you ? ’ and I said , ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 23 | He introduced me to this world that I had never really come across before . |
| 24 | I had never really interfaced with an AI before . |
| 25 | I had never really considered this . |
| 26 | I had entered fully into the shared joys of Christian experience , but I had never quite gained the satisfaction that other Christians seemed to have . |
| 27 | As I had never actually made a cold application for a job before , I did n't really know what to make of this . |
| 28 | I realised I had never ever shaken his hand before , MPs do not do that sort of thing . |
| 29 | It was strange , she thought , as Unice knitted and Anna sewed and Alice consulted her pattern , and the good old granddaddy Stephan watched the fire , strange she had never properly felt sex before . |
| 30 | If she were truthful , she had never properly imagined Bella as anything , except perhaps a spiteful , over-painted tart , drenched in a cheap scent , who was beginning to put on weight and let herself go . |