Example sentences of "i [verb] never [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd never wanted to respond to a man before ! ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I 'd never done weights before I came to Chelsea , and my wife gives me better things to eat than bananas . |
| 3 | Yeah , it 's like you could actually , I mean once my mum had pointed it out , I 'd never had noticed , but you walked into the bathroom and you thought , yeah , |
| 4 | I 'd never had to live like that before . |
| 5 | ‘ I have learned so many things I wish I 'd never had to learn . |
| 6 | Wrote hundreds of letter , er to the people you wanted to do , because I 'd never expected having to find a job , I must admit , because the year before I took School Certificate I had got a Naval a artificer apprenticeship , but then I got kicked in the eye playing rugby , and failed a medical . |
| 7 | I 'd been given it when I was seven but I 'd never learnt to play it . |
| 8 | We 'd been trying to see someone there for months , but although I 'd delivered petitions , I 'd never managed to get through the front door . |
| 9 | I had seen hundreds , perhaps thousands , just like it , sticking out of the ground , but I had never stopped to look at them . |
| 10 | I had never seen Chamonix so quiet . |
| 11 | St John , who I had never heard laugh before , actually laughed out loud at my shocked face . |
| 12 | I had never intended to love him . |
| 13 | I well recall one tough Yorkshire girl who was on drugs at the time , coming to a service where I was preaching , and being pierced to the heart by a throwaway line I had never intended saying , about God hardening Pharaoh 's heart . |
| 14 | I had enjoyed Hope and the work we did at night , but I detested working at night , as I had never managed to sleep well during the day . |
| 15 | She said : ‘ The irony is that people used to think I was terribly strong — particularly after that commercial — but I had never managed to cope with life at all . |
| 16 | ‘ Now there are people around who are saying , ‘ I wish I had never bothered taking a picture of Kylie Minogue ’ , ’ he added ruefully . |
| 17 | I had never tried cutting paeonies , thinking they would not last very long , but Daphne tells me they will survive for a week or more with proper conditioning . |
| 18 | I replied that I had not done so-that I was happy in the Foreign Office , and in the House of Lords which I had never contemplated leaving , and that it was in these fields that my strong preferences lay . |
| 19 | Karl Kraus ‘ whom I venerated more than anyone else in the world , without whose wrath and zeal I would n't have cared to live , whom I had never dared to approach . ’ |
| 20 | When Yeats first laid eyes on Maud Gonne , in 1889 , ‘ the trembling of my life began ’ , he said , ‘ I had never thought to see in a living creature so great beauty … it belonged to famous pictures , to poetry , to some legendary past . ’ |
| 21 | I had never had to argue that as a woman I should have an education , become a theologian , own a house , or anything else . |
| 22 | I had never had to do love scenes and neither had Kylie . |
| 23 | I 've never felt threatened by these images and certainly never felt compelled to buy what 's represented in the advertisements . |
| 24 | Erm to deal with Mr 's point about denying a problem of affordable housing , I think er he must n't have heard what I said properly , because I 've never sought to deny that there 's a ho a problem of access to housing . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've never stopped prayin' for you , Myles . |
| 26 | " It 's fair to say I 've never stopped griping since you left . |
| 27 | I 've never seen do you think every country gets different ones ? |
| 28 | IBM Corp says its Personal Computer Co shipped 30% to 35% more personal computers in the first quarter than it did during the year-ago period , and vice-chairman Jack Kuehler expects it to be ‘ reasonably profitable ’ in 1993 — but the personal computer business is now so volatile that making forecasts more than a quarter ahead is a mug 's game : following Conner Peripherals Inc 's warning on Friday that it is seeing oversupply and soft demand for disk drives ( CI No 2,142 ) , observers are saying that grey market prices for 80486s are now weak ; Finis Conner said on Friday that Conner would have to slash production and payrolls in the months ahead to remain competitive — ‘ The market is in total disarray , ’ he said ; ‘ the pricing that has occurred in the last four to five days has been something I 've never seen believes the booming personal computer industry is showing signs of slowing after being fuelled for over two years by the price war . |
| 29 | I do the same if someone I 've never seen comes up and uses one of my names . |
| 30 | It was something I 've never wanted to do with any other man . |