Example sentences of "never [vb pp] in his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as he did the wind caught at him even more mightily than before ; there was the sense of commotion and movement in the air and out of the darkness behind him came a terrible crack , a heave and a bang and whoosh such as he had never heard in his life . |
| 2 | He felt drugged , by her perfume and her presence ; he felt … like he had never felt in his life before . |
| 3 | Muldoon was beginning to get an uncomfortable feeling that he was pushing his opinions too far , something he had never done in his life . |
| 4 | The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life . |
| 5 | Louis looked at the boy whom he had clearly never seen in his life . |
| 6 | He is said to have never smiled in his life . |
| 7 | He looked as though he 'd never smiled in his life . |
| 8 | I should have realised that from the fact that Micky said ‘ Oh Lord ’ — an expression , incidentally , that was n't in the script of the play and that he had never used in his life — before he turned round from the Hooded Owl and looked into the wings . |
| 9 | ( He laughs briefly and in a second has never laughed in his life . ) |
| 10 | Perhaps only Barrie could have made a successful match between two such unpromising characters — a man who boasts that he has never laughed in his life and a woman who is acutely aware of being devoid of charm . |
| 11 | In C. S. Lewis ' quest for joy , we can clearly see that the void left by his mother 's death was never replaced in his childhood , nor indeed perhaps ever in his whole life . |
| 12 | Old Eugene had never worked in his life due to what he said was a bad heart , but he never lacked in daring and was never afraid to take a gamble . |
| 13 | STRACHAN Never beaten in his heart and always penetrating on the ball 8 |