Example sentences of "had never [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jaq felt profoundly glad that he had never studied in the school of Assassins . |
| 2 | The responses could be analysed for differences in opinion depending on the time since the respondent had suffered from the illness or between those who had ever and those who had never suffered from the illness in question . |
| 3 | Campion Price had never cared for the emotional welfare of his wife — let alone his daughters ! |
| 4 | Picasso had never exhibited at the large Salons or taken part in any group manifestations , and after the Indépendants of 1909 , Braque joined him in this particular kind of artistic isolation . |
| 5 | In the thirty-six years of which he had conscious memory of Mrs Farr Senior , their relationship had never developed beyond the ‘ is n't it a nice day ? ’ stage . |
| 6 | Bellingham , the most expensive and prestigious barber in London and supplier still of razors to those clients who had never adjusted to the shaving habits of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | Statistics given to the annual meeting showed that 1,400 of them were from people who had never called upon the Samaritans before . |
| 8 | The Prince 's other favourite place to paint , and indeed to be , is Italy , which , for all his travels , he had never visited until the spring of 1985 . |
| 9 | He had never asked about the child , partly from a kind of delicacy but mainly because he preferred not to think of her as a mother , and she had volunteered no information about Timmy or his father . |
| 10 | They had never heard of the Greeks , unless you counted the man who kept the Acropolis restaurant in Stowerton , and neither could now understand the emotion which held each of them , preserving him in silence and a kind of despair . |
| 11 | ‘ I had never heard of the area when I met a teacher from there in 1973 but we became friends and I started to visit . |
| 12 | Over 30% in this study had never heard of the ATB . |
| 13 | Trent had never heard of the President being a drinker , secret or otherwise , and it was the sort of habit that could n't stay hidden in a country of Belpan 's size . |
| 14 | Such is fame : our exploit brought us international mention with a few lines by the Canadian Press but our feat was not mentioned in Robert Ripley 's ‘ Believe It or Not ’ column , and we had never heard of the Guinness Book of Records in those early days . |
| 15 | Dorothy 's Journals provide a record of the tour , which involved the use of a vehicle described as ‘ an Irish jaunting car ’ ; they made a pilgrimage to the grave of Burns and visited Sir Walter Scott , whose Lay of the Last Minstrel was to introduce the new metre of Christabel to a public who had never heard of the source . |
| 16 | The majority of museum people interviewed had never heard of the ‘ WONDERS ’ series . |
| 17 | Of the remaining seven , three were imprisoned before they could contact the Council , two were afraid that they might be recognised walking into the Council 's offices , one had a ‘ habit so big ’ that he thought it would be a waste of time , and one had never heard of the service . |
| 18 | Harry had never heard of the man , but his status and circumstances sounded disturbingly similar to his own . |
| 19 | Our driver had never heard of the Euston Road . |
| 20 | Amaranth , who had never heard of the Goodharts , said how much she had enjoyed the party . |
| 21 | She had never heard of the film . |
| 22 | He obviously had never heard of the Order of Merit or I am quite sure he would have mentioned it at that time . |
| 23 | A survey for the Welsh Consumers ' Council shows that 40pc of shoppers had never heard of the Government 's citizens ' charter despite publicity costing £350,000 . |
| 24 | In point of fact , in terms of Catholic tradition , the challenges here might be less awkward than those of phase 2 ( and to some extent John Paul II was able to recognize this ) , but the crucial ecclesiastical issue once more ( as in phase 1 ) had become the acceptability of diversity , and the curial mind had never escaped from the conviction that unity requires uniformity . |
| 25 | He had never joined in the masturbation rites at school , either . |
| 26 | He had smoked simple compound narcotics , to accept the veil of illusion , but had never experimented with the more complex chemical compounds . |
| 27 | And she certainly had never confessed to the family pressures that lay behind the break-up of her marriage . |
| 28 | And Mr Wolski did something he had never done in the Zoo before : he whistled the tune of a childhood song while he worked . |
| 29 | He was an ailing man of 61 who had never commanded in the field , knew nothing of Gallipoli and was appointed solely because of seniority on the army list . |
| 30 | I learnt then from Jean-Claude that the property had never belonged to the family . |