Example sentences of "[vb past] never [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because she 'd never fallen in love , the head-over-heels , with-all-your-heart kind of love that made a woman 's world centre on one man for the rest of her life . |
| 2 | John , 39 , found the record haul while renovating a Liverpool house and dumped them ‘ because I 'd never heard of Larry Lurex ’ . |
| 3 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 4 | I 'd never heard of Eternity before , nor had anyone I knew . |
| 5 | Well , I 'd never heard of Lloyd 's . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd never heard of Guillain-Barré Syndrome before . |
| 7 | I 'd never heard of work till that moment , and there I was thinking of myself dressed in trousers and sitting at a desk with a ledger . |
| 8 | I 'D never heard of Mike Harding until I moved to Sedbergh , a little town not too far from Hawes , but a long way away from anywhere else . |
| 9 | Well I 'd never heard of salt being put down before ! |
| 10 | Wish we 'd never heard of car dealers . |
| 11 | I 'd never heard of Knudsen until earlier this morning when I was somewhere over the North Sea on my way from England and I happened to open a magazine aimed at Nordic Airport passengers . |
| 12 | He 'd never heard of Vecchi and was n't interested in finding anybody by that name . |
| 13 | Report by Ms de Meaner Aside from Katie Mallett who , early on , informed me she would n't be entering this comp ( she 'd never heard of Summerhill ) , most of the regulars entered . |
| 14 | And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents . |
| 15 | Besides , I 'd never taken to Agnes . |
| 16 | Though she 'd never worked in insurance , her potential employers thought her smiling manner and evident efficiency would equip her well for the task , particularly as she appeared a quick learner , and did well in the practical assignment they gave her during the period of the interview itself . |
| 17 | She 'd never resorted to violence in her life , but suddenly the thought of landing a punch square on that granite jaw was enormously appealing . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't worry , Cawthorne deserves everything that 's coming to him , ’ said McInnes in a tone I bet he 'd never used on Sorrel . |
| 19 | Harold Wilson always used to say he 'd never got past page one , did n't he ? |
| 20 | She 'd never spoken about family either . |
| 21 | Ralph Berger has also found that subjects woken from REM sleep report colour in their dreams far more frequently than people do when asked about their dreams during the day — even subjects who claimed never to dream in colour . |
| 22 | He liked never to call from home ; that way he could check up on Gina . |
| 23 | It was like complaining that Emily Brontë had never travelled outside Yorkshire . |
| 24 | He had gone on to a party at a rich woman 's house , he explained , and seen a display of drinks such as he had never seen on earth before . |
| 25 | He could think , with a brief twist of the old cynicism , that he had never seen inside Tara anyway and that he could not miss what he had never had . |
| 26 | There was also , she vaguely noted , in one corner a piano , and the windows had shutters of a kind that she had never seen in England . |
| 27 | Then I spotted them — superb orange orchids of a kind I had never seen in Danu . |
| 28 | It made him difficult to fix , especially for eyes awash with brandy , the merest motion of his head breaking subtle waves against his bones , their spume draining back into his skin trailing colours Estabrook had never seen in flesh before . |
| 29 | Most of the police officers taking part had never appeared on TV before . |
| 30 | Mrs Watson had never suffered from depression before and a pathologist confirmed she had no signs of natural disease . |