Example sentences of "had never [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took to pacing the streets of London , very often in the poorer areas , in all weathers , alone , seldom speaking to anyone but staring , staring as if he had never seen a poor person in his life before . |
| 2 | The citizens of Kettering had never seen a better ring , In fact no better pair of 'em " Take care of " me ! " they cried . |
| 3 | Paige could only admit that she had never seen a better male specimen . |
| 4 | I had never seen a happy jogger and I was not ill . |
| 5 | Many of the 2,000-plus troops were teenagers who had never seen a dead body before , let alone large-scale massacres . |
| 6 | I had never seen a big sea-bird colony before . |
| 7 | In Jamaica I had never seen a white person ; to us youngsters they were an unknown quantity . |
| 8 | Oliver had never seen a dirtier or more miserable place . |
| 9 | But more often than not , whenever they were under the same roof together , he shared her bed and , now that her initial awkwardness had abated — for she had never seen a naked human being of either sex before and had always been discouraged from looking too closely at herself — he made love to her with a straightforward vigour she found attractive . |
| 10 | They ( or most of them ) had never received a formal education , so at times they landed in trouble . |
| 11 | Barth had never met a real Anglo-Catholic before and was excited by what he found . |
| 12 | My parents or family had never made a big deal about my body or development . |
| 13 | Although Houston had never elected a black mayor , the question of race was not a significant campaign factor , with Lanier campaigning strongly in black neighbourhoods and Turner receiving considerable white support , including that of Whitmire . |
| 14 | For one thing , she had never worn a strapless dress before , and although the bodice was tight-fitting and well supported she could n't rid herself of the fear that the dress would go slithering to the floor at some critical moment , leaving her almost naked , like in a bad dream . |
| 15 | OLDHAM Athletic , who had never beaten a First Division side since they dropped into the Second Division in 1923 , made up for 66 years of not altogether patient waiting with a pulsating victory over the League champions Arsenal at Boundary Park last night . |
| 16 | I had never cooked a healthy meal and I was only there a month when I got into burglary . ’ |
| 17 | I had never visited a huge , second-hand market before . |
| 18 | But he saw the reaction also of the Africans , who had never heard a white man speak in such terms . |
| 19 | Before this year , Ayodhya , a community of 30,000 Hindus and 2,000 Muslims , had never witnessed a religious clash . |
| 20 | West Indies had won the three-Test series 2–0 , yet so far had never played a one-day international against anyone , so the balance between form and experience seemed a neat one ; and so it proved . |
| 21 | There is no champion tennis player who has never served a double fault ; no professional musician who had never played a wrong note ; and no doctor or nurse who has not made an error of diagnosis . |
| 22 | Charity had never felt a true patriot whichever way she might analyse the term , but it seemed to matter that Britain now lay defenceless in the path of a monstrous hybrid composed of two powerful ideologies . |
| 23 | I had never touched a real dapping-rod in my life , and Alan 's was telescopic , extending to seventeen feet in length . |
| 24 | She had never touched a naked man before . |
| 25 | In conjunction with suitably unsteady camerawork , the effect aimed to recreate the sensations of being in an earthquake ; but as the majority of the movie audience had never experienced a real earthquake , it was difficult to assess the fidelity of the reproduction . |
| 26 | Boy was of course no virgin , but he had never spent a whole week with one man before . |
| 27 | She had continuously offered her services to the RCM committee as a foster parent , but they had never found a suitable child and perhaps also felt that she was too poor to cope . |
| 28 | He had never found a suitable gift , and there had n't been an Easter that year , the only gift many families had received had been blood and fire . |
| 29 | Although Arkin , who had created the role of Harry Berlin in Murray Schisgal 's Luv in 1964 ( in Mike Nichols 's production ) , had directed sketches in revue , he had never directed a legitimate play before . |
| 30 | In his windswept position he had never known a serious attack of mildew — but he did then ! |