Example sentences of "she [vb past] never [vb pp] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd never ridden so big a horse as Sultan . |
| 2 | She 'd never seen so much silverware , and all laid out for one person . |
| 3 | She 'd never felt so lost ; there was nothing to hold on to in a world so alien . |
| 4 | She 'd never felt so weak , so helpless . |
| 5 | Driving away into the city streets , she 'd never felt so alone or so friendless in her entire life . |
| 6 | It was a cold goodnight , and yet she had never felt so warm towards him . |
| 7 | When James Halden led Sarah away from the scene of her father 's death she had never felt so ashamed . |
| 8 | She had never felt so wretched and she vowed that if Maggie recovered she would make it up to her somehow . |
| 9 | She had never felt so uncomfortable in her life . |
| 10 | She had never felt so helpless . |
| 11 | By the time dinner was cleared , Julia thought that she had never felt so tired . |
| 12 | She had never felt so vulnerable , not for two years . |
| 13 | It was humiliating admitting as much , but she had never felt so attracted , so excited by the physical appearance of a man . |
| 14 | She had never felt so loved , she decided sleepily , so cherished , so secure . |
| 15 | She had never felt so exhausted . |
| 16 | She had never flown so fast and with such ease before . |
| 17 | Winnie , dear Jesus , beneath the bed , and she had never moved so fast , would the fat sow never rise ? |
| 18 | Yes , but she could be parting from him in a different way — ; stealing away , running off , he was surprised she had never done so , that she had n't killed the old woman with a poison in the way she had perhaps schemed to kill him , that she had not held her under just a moment too long when she took her swimming that she had not simply abandoned her in the settlement . |
| 19 | She had never done so , of course , but all the same it was a possibility worth remembering , if things got sticky in the future . |
| 20 | Anabelle watched him go , thinking that she had never met so many hard-hearted and spiteful creatures in her whole short life . |
| 21 | She had never said so , certainly , because she hated to admit that she minded anything , but she had seemed evasive about the future , and had shown no great enthusiasm over the journalistic course she was going to take . |
| 22 | Although she had never said so , his instinct had told him immediately he 'd seen her with Harry that she was in love with the young man — a devastatingly handsome young man — whose manner towards Alice had been affectionate but certainly not lover-like . |
| 23 | It seemed to her that she had never seen so many people as there were on that platform , waiting for the Rome express to arrive . |
| 24 | Loyalty to him , Richard knew , meant that she had never complained so far to anyone but himself about this business of living , instead of in a nice house , in a boat in the middle of London . |
| 25 | She had never spent so long taking her clothes off , but when she finally stood alluringly naked she saw that he was still looking at her mouth . |
| 26 | She had never looked so well , and knew it . |
| 27 | Because she had never sunk so low , and never would . |
| 28 | When Thursday of that week came round , Leith was beginning to think she had never worked so hard . |