Example sentences of "they had never [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They had never been parted before — they had never even lived in different houses . |
| 2 | After all , they were going to live in a village they had never even seen , and during the next hour or so they would discover what manner of place their new home was . |
| 3 | ( Yet , by Mr Foster 's account , they had never even liked the man . ) |
| 4 | They had never even tried it until she had first seen Alain and now it seemed that every step she took was to be supervised . |
| 5 | They had never ever seen that in all their lives before . |
| 6 | They had never ever seen it ! |
| 7 | But they had never before known it to come near the Namoi . |
| 8 | The rebels captured the headquarters of Iraq 's 1st and 5th Army Corps — getting hold of heavy armour they had never before had . |
| 9 | This once powerful man was so implanted in their lives that they had never really left Great Meadow , in spite of jobs and marriages and children and houses of their own in Dublin and London . |
| 10 | In the sense of their access to political power it was not so much a case that women were ‘ returned ’ to the family since they had never really left it to go out to get power — rather they had traditionally exercised power , if at all , by virtue of their familial positions and as the public and private spheres were separated , women were left behind . |
| 11 | She was sure — or almost sure — that they had never actually killed anyone , but you could never be quite sure in this world . |
| 12 | So we must surely deduce from the following that those Pressmen on the panel were voting about something they had never actually experienced ! |
| 13 | It was just one more thing they had never actually talked about . |
| 14 | They had never once criticised his mother 's behaviour in their grandson 's hearing . |