Example sentences of "who [verb] never [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could also be that Reilly , who has never knowingly sold himself short , is driving a hard bargain . |
| 2 | It could also be that Reilly , who has never knowingly sold himself short , is driving a hard bargain . |
| 3 | Next , the tenor , who was engaged as a stop-gap , is a church singer from Lodi who has never before acted on such a big stage , who has only taken the part of the primo tenore a couple of times , and who moreover was only engaged a week before the performance . |
| 4 | It is just possible that you are one of those rare people who has never seriously tried to diet . |
| 5 | With the shamelessness of the truly selfish man who has never really had to consider another 's feelings he stopped the Archdeacon dead and , taking his fork from his fish , said , ‘ What about Gray ? ’ |
| 6 | What it does and I think we 're also dealing with a with a with a , people like right and is probably arguably worse right who 've never really had any sort of responsibility before and they not quite sure where the lines are drawn . |
| 7 | Terrified to telephone and hear him say the words he had written on paper , she collapsed ultimately into a drunken stupor — a woman who had never previously drunk more than a half bottle of wine . |
| 8 | With Madonna he bought himself a whole new audience , kids under 21 who had never even heard of him . |
| 9 | ‘ I was intimidated by the extravagance , ’ said Anne , who had never even contemplated the possibility of Dustin 's becoming a movie star , an occupation she then professed to despise . |
| 10 | Some do not realise that they are pregnant at all , like Lorraine , who had never even started her periods . |
| 11 | Mr Phil Gregory , Labour agent , said yesterday that , at the count , he turned to the beaten Labour candidate , Mr Douglas Naysmith , and said : ‘ Would n't it be ironic if you were beaten by people who had never even set foot in the constituency ? ’ |
| 12 | Though impulsive in some ways , she was an ordinary , practical girl who had never really believed in grand passion or love at first sight . |
| 13 | Then , as she obeyed , he was reaching into the back seat of the car and lifting out Kirsty , who had never once stirred . |
| 14 | Ken , the loner and the camp actor who had never actually admitted his homosexuality , proposed marriage to Joan . |
| 15 | Neckar Island was owned by Lord Cobham , who had never actually set foot on it himself . |
| 16 | Lanier , 66 , was a wealthy white property developer who had never before run for public office . |
| 17 | he advanced above three hundred debased field negroes who had never before moved without the whip to a state resembling that of contented , honest and industrious servants and after paying them for their labour , tripled the annual neat [ sic ] clearance of his Estate . |
| 18 | There was a moment of silence , and Matilda , who had never before heard great romantic poetry spoken aloud , was profoundly moved . |
| 19 | The author of the Life of Wilfrid , who represents Wilfrid as persuading the king and queen to accept the word of God and as preaching to a people who had never before heard the Gospel , undoubtedly exaggerates the paganism of the southern Saxons , for Bede reveals from non-Wilfridian sources , first , that Aethelwealh had married a Christian princess and had been baptized himself and , second , that a number of ealdormen and thegns had likewise received baptism , with the priests , Eappa , Padda , Burghelm and Aeddi ministering to the common people either at the time of Aethelwealh 's conversion or subsequently ( HE IV , 13 ) . |
| 20 | Tug skippers , who had never before acknowledged the presence of the moored barges , called out , or gave the danger signal — live rapid blasts in succession . |
| 21 | When he had first come to Maythorpe House as an ignorant thirteen-year-old who had never before lived in anything grander than a tiny gardener 's cottage , he had felt awed and frightened , and unable to grasp that this huge place was now his home . |
| 22 | Here is a poem by a ten-year-old girl who had never before written any poetry . |
| 23 | Williams , a right-wing , self-made multimillionaire with interests in oil , telecommunications and ranching , who had never before held elected office , presented himself as a Texan cowboy who was " as comfortable on the back of a horse as … in a corporate board room " . |
| 24 | The post-1950 returnees were joined by some who had never before left the villages . |
| 25 | For Rachel , who had never before experienced such intensity of feeling , it was as if he 'd transported her to another world — a world where every sensation was heightened , every touch the prelude to yet more delight as he explored and worshipped every inch of her body before taking her to the peak of fulfilment . |
| 26 | In fact people who have never even heard of contraception and have never stepped inside a family planning clinic still plan their families . |
| 27 | Many of Indonesia 's peoples , for instance , who have never previously seen Europeans , grow very little body hair , and all of it straight . |
| 28 | Operatives who have never previously held factory jobs need to be trained , expatriates are replaced with indigenous managerial and technical personnel , and indigenous capacity springs up in unfamiliar and/or high technology industries . |
| 29 | And also state that over the years er your father used to run the business done hundreds of jobs for Avon Insurance at , and er also you yourself have done jobs for Avon Insurance before who have never ever had any trouble whatever so ever ! |
| 30 | To date , his courses have provoked some extraordinary work from brain surgeons to housewives , from experienced artists and from those who have never before painted . |