Example sentences of "i [verb] never [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until now I 'd never consciously posed that choice to myself . |
| 2 | I 'd never even noticed the one next door , but the herb must have come from that |
| 3 | And there are people , places , history in this country I 'd never even guessed at , though I sometimes feel I know them anyway . ’ |
| 4 | That 's a division I 'd never even heard of before . |
| 5 | I 'd never even heard of Killerton until I started working for the Trust , but when I was at Drogo I used to come across here fairly regularly because of the regional office being here and because I was just interested . |
| 6 | I 'd never even held a tiny baby let alone changed a nappy or supervised bath time . |
| 7 | As with so many worldly matters , it was Lawrence who had introduced me to the gravel and grain method of 241 humane culling , but only the theory of it ; I 'd never yet tried it in the field . |
| 8 | Before writing this I 'd never actually seen it before , but after playing it I realise I did n't miss anything . |
| 9 | I 'd never before realised so clearly how drinking makes you want to drink . |
| 10 | ‘ It is the way it seemed to me , ’ Ven stated , but then qualified — and her heart started to thunder again , ‘ But then , until I met you , I 'd never before experienced — jealousy . ’ |
| 11 | I had done the score for Warren for Reds and I 'd never quite finished it , so I always felt I owed him one . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd never really explored the bandit country north of Peckham but at least there were plenty of vehicles around to cover me . |
| 13 | I suppose I 'd never really sat down and cried about it , ’ she recalls . |
| 14 | ‘ An area I 'd never really looked into — intersexing . |
| 15 | You know I 'd never really valued the the erm the truth in that term , straight heads do definitely think very differently . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd never really had a guitar hero before then . |
| 17 | Of course we have books on herbs and mediaeval remedies , and my middle daughter is a vegetarian who grows her organic vegetables in the form of the letters CND and recycles her night soil , but I had never consciously meditated , relaxed , watched my diet , had any particular way of eating , consulted an acupuncturist , nor thought in holistic terms . |
| 18 | I had never consciously associated with what is called complementary medicine , and as the reader will have discovered , I have had little to do with any form of medicine . |
| 19 | In fact I had never even imagined life without fat so it was something of a challenge to create a very low fat diet for myself , first of all , and then for my slimmers — a diet which at the same time as being very low in fat included all the necessary nutrients . |
| 20 | I often wished later that I had named Trotsky instead , because his principles were more in accord with the way I felt about the place by the time I left , but at that time I had never even heard of him . |
| 21 | They pointed me towards writers I had never even heard of , let alone read . |
| 22 | I had never even seen a Muslim — apart , of course , from on the television , and the ones I had seen there — I will be absolutely frank — did not seem a particularly inspiring bunch ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The truth is that I had never even met him . ’ |
| 24 | It suddenly occurred to me that I had been so busy enjoying myself on the Mantela that I had never even opened either of them . |
| 25 | It seemed dreadful that I did n't know whether I loved him or not , that I had never even thought of it in those terms . |
| 26 | Quite soon after the note , I began to suspect — what I had never even thought about , for some naive reason — that I might be pregnant . |
| 27 | Faussone talks about ‘ the way we bent our elbows ’ — an expression ( for eating or drinking ) which I have heard spoken in English , but which I had never before seen written down in a book . |
| 28 | We visited Blackwell 's , such a bookshop as I had never before seen , and Vivien left with armfuls of books , and I , happy with one modest Penguin . |
| 29 | I had never before seen any Benedict 's sister do that . |
| 30 | I had never before seen such a soft light in those once proud eyes , or felt such a friendly touch of her once cold hand . |