Example sentences of "[vb past] never [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never went to one , I 'd never seen a live band that actually wrote their own stuff . |
| 2 | I 'd never seen a female naked . |
| 3 | She 'd never seen anyone so transfixed , but then he 'd never seen a naked woman before . |
| 4 | It was as if he 'd never seen a naked woman . |
| 5 | I 'd never seen a white blues band playing so good and this kid , Jimmie Vaughan , was playing some of the most devastating guitar I 've ever heard in my life . |
| 6 | On 24 May 1988 , the last bit of meat went out the door , and an hour later I felt I 'd never seen a T-bone steak ! ’ |
| 7 | I put my hands over my eyes to shut out my fears : I 'd never seen a dead person before . |
| 8 | He 'd never done a wrong thing |
| 9 | I could see he 'd never used a public phone before . |
| 10 | The might of Gloucester beaten by bottom of the table , West Hartlepool , who 'd never won a first division game before . |
| 11 | You know I 'm , in some ways you know I 'm so glad I 've never had like well before you know it used to bother me that I 'd never had a long-term relationship and that |
| 12 | He 'd never had a serious illness since a bout of pneumonia in childhood , and he 'd never been less than whole . |
| 13 | He 'd never had a good word to say for them before , a bunch o' thieving magpies , he always said , living off the fat of the land while he had to pay taxes to keep 'em . |
| 14 | She 'd never known a true home . |
| 15 | He took to pacing the streets of London , very often in the poorer areas , in all weathers , alone , seldom speaking to anyone but staring , staring as if he had never seen a poor person in his life before . |
| 16 | The citizens of Kettering had never seen a better ring , In fact no better pair of 'em " Take care of " me ! " they cried . |
| 17 | Paige could only admit that she had never seen a better male specimen . |
| 18 | I had never seen a happy jogger and I was not ill . |
| 19 | Many of the 2,000-plus troops were teenagers who had never seen a dead body before , let alone large-scale massacres . |
| 20 | I had never seen a big sea-bird colony before . |
| 21 | In Jamaica I had never seen a white person ; to us youngsters they were an unknown quantity . |
| 22 | Oliver had never seen a dirtier or more miserable place . |
| 23 | But more often than not , whenever they were under the same roof together , he shared her bed and , now that her initial awkwardness had abated — for she had never seen a naked human being of either sex before and had always been discouraged from looking too closely at herself — he made love to her with a straightforward vigour she found attractive . |
| 24 | They ( or most of them ) had never received a formal education , so at times they landed in trouble . |
| 25 | Barth had never met a real Anglo-Catholic before and was excited by what he found . |
| 26 | My parents or family had never made a big deal about my body or development . |
| 27 | Although Houston had never elected a black mayor , the question of race was not a significant campaign factor , with Lanier campaigning strongly in black neighbourhoods and Turner receiving considerable white support , including that of Whitmire . |
| 28 | For one thing , she had never worn a strapless dress before , and although the bodice was tight-fitting and well supported she could n't rid herself of the fear that the dress would go slithering to the floor at some critical moment , leaving her almost naked , like in a bad dream . |
| 29 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had never beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 30 | I had never cooked a healthy meal and I was only there a month when I got into burglary . ’ |