Example sentences of "[vb past] never [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I only wish I 'd never accepted his ring … |
| 2 | I 'd never seen her look so evil before . |
| 3 | He 'd never seen his mother or his father reading it , but once he had opened it himself . |
| 4 | That night I cried so much — I never felt so far away from anything I knew and I 'd never missed my mother so much in my life . |
| 5 | This Jessica woman — he assumed it must be Jessica , he 'd never heard her name for sure until tonight — had been in danger of getting her face poked down her throat , was all . |
| 6 | At some stage during her crisis-strewn life Emily had gone to the University of Lancaster to study French but she 'd never completed her course . |
| 7 | He 'd never shortened her name , or been a demonstrative man , and she still found it almost impossible to guess what he was thinking . |
| 8 | It was interesting too , she realised , that he 'd never allowed his sister to dispose of them either . |
| 9 | She 'd never doubted his skill — unless he was a closet body-builder , the well-defined muscle of his body owed their development to regular participation in some kind of sport — only her own ability to keep her untried sea-legs ! |
| 10 | But he 'd never had his leg over , not once in all those years . |
| 11 | As for MCC members ( ‘ those so-and-sos ’ ) , he vowed never to raise his bat to them again after they averted their collective gaze from him after his ‘ pair ’ against Australia in '81 . |
| 12 | On learning the reason for his predecessor 's dismissal he decided never to put his livelihood at risk by getting friendly with any of the Girls . |
| 13 | From now on , though she knew of nowhere else where she could sleep , she resolved never to share her cousin 's berth again . |
| 14 | She said never to cut my hair ! ’ |
| 15 | Flora had never forgiven her husband for dying ten years before , leaving her badly off . |
| 16 | Even with the soot-stains on her skin — perhaps because of them — I had never seen her look so radiant . |
| 17 | Benny had never seen her friend so low . |
| 18 | Philip had never seen her smoke before . |
| 19 | Mehtab , for instance , had never seen her mother or father sunbathing in the back garden . |
| 20 | He had never seen her mother or her aunt so he could n't look for family resemblances . |
| 21 | She had never seen her mother cry . |
| 22 | She had never seen her mother 's withered leg ; indeed , imagining it had fuelled some of the worst nightmares of her childhood , worse even than Afghanistan which was at least safely half a world anyway , not just down a corridor , released from its sheath of leather and metal , grotesque and awful . |
| 23 | His daughter had never seen her father and had no idea of what he would be like . |
| 24 | Pressed by the nuns to complete a kettleholder in cross-stitch as a present for her father , she had replied that she had never seen her father holding a kettle and that Daddy had gone away . |
| 25 | He had never seen her move so fast . |
| 26 | Though he had never seen their cottage he seemed to remember that his aunt had told him that it lay about two miles to the south . |
| 27 | The fact that I had never seen my aunt looking so elegant added to my impression that I was imagining this . |
| 28 | Hawk had read about him in the newsfax , but rarely watched teevee , and so had never seen his face before . |
| 29 | But he 'd stood up well to that first interview , hindered rather than helped by the presence of his solicitor , who had never seen his client before and had made it painfully apparent that he would prefer never to see him again . |
| 30 | He shook his head , not understanding , knowing only that he had never seen his father sleeping . |