Example sentences of "she had never [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was strange , she thought , as Unice knitted and Anna sewed and Alice consulted her pattern , and the good old granddaddy Stephan watched the fire , strange she had never properly felt sex before . |
| 2 | If she were truthful , she had never properly imagined Bella as anything , except perhaps a spiteful , over-painted tart , drenched in a cheap scent , who was beginning to put on weight and let herself go . |
| 3 | He had reasoned that , even if they could n't talk there , the morning concert might do her some good , that she had never willingly set foot out of the flat since it happened , that in any case he had a father 's responsibility towards his younger sister , and he had promised to go and hear her . |
| 4 | She had never particularly liked the church as a building — there was a coldness and lack of ‘ atmosphere ’ about it that had nothing to do , she felt sure , with the wealthy congregation . |
| 5 | Although she could swim a little , she had never particularly liked the sport . |
| 6 | " Now then … in 1959 your husband came to the conclusion , and I am given to understand that you fully agreed , that it would be a sensible step for him to take employment for 15 months with a construction firm in Central America , in order to save the larger part of his salary Nenna protested that she had never exactly thought it sensible , it was the parting of lovers , which must always be senseless , but they 'd both of them thought that David , Panama , would be a wretched place to take small children to . |
| 7 | She prayed for faith , addressing a God whom she had never altogether managed to believe in , but clinging to the structure of the Roman Catholic Church as though it might do instead . |
| 8 | She had never even referred to herself as his stepsister before ! |
| 9 | She even climbed to the old attic that she had never even seen before ; perhaps here there would be some painting he had done long ago . |
| 10 | She would rather die of starvation , or sunburn , than face Piers Morrison , who had revealed a side to her which she had never even suspected existed . |
| 11 | Perhaps it would have been better if this last week had never happened , if she had never even met Fen Marshall . |
| 12 | She had never even met him until coming to the club . |
| 13 | She had never even asked if there was a photograph of her father , and she supposed they had been so careful not to upset her that they had never offered one . |
| 14 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 15 | ‘ He would say she had never even let him buy a sock , before . |
| 16 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
| 17 | But she had been forbidden by her mother to have anything to do with her Pascoe cousins , and she was sure Tristram was under the same veto as far as she was concerned ; and for a long time — years — she had never even spoken a word to him . |
| 18 | Her work and studies had been so all-consuming that she had never even had a boyfriend ! |
| 19 | She had never even expected him to help with the dishes when she had fed him here . |
| 20 | She had never wholly believed it , but oh , how desperately she had wanted to ! |
| 21 | Fabia arose on Sunday morning , thought of Cara , of Barney , and of the man she had never yet met but , with guilty conscience , hoped to , and then attempted to shed her anxieties by remembering that , with Františkovy Láznë being less than twenty-five miles away , Františkovy Láznë was where she was heading for that day . |
| 22 | She had never yet addressed him as Sir Joseph , because somehow he did n't look like a sir ; he did n't , in her eyes , fit the title ; he was too young . |
| 23 | Through years of attempting to lick herself clean , for she had never quite lost her self-respect , Stripey had become as thickly coated with mud inside as out . |
| 24 | Perhaps she had never quite recovered from the efforts to please she had made then . |
| 25 | Even in medical school it had inhibited her to the point where she had even had serious doubts about whether she would be able to continue her studies , simply because , unlike many of her senior colleagues , she had never quite managed to acquire the kind of detachment that was so necessary sometimes to become a doctor . |
| 26 | She had never before contacted any of the emergency services , and she was surprised by how long the operator took to put her through to the police . |
| 27 | She had never before seen or felt such vitality . |
| 28 | Grainne thought it was strange that she had never before realised how many Kings of Ireland had been exiled and had later returned . |
| 29 | She supposed she had never before realised just how much time Eleanor and Julius spent together , or how close their work brought them . |
| 30 | And Clara , confident that she would meet with no misunderstanding , managed to relate episodes that she had never before related , and when , finally , she came to the subject of the future , she awaited Clelia 's views as though they might even be of use . |