Example sentences of "who had never [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | With Madonna he bought himself a whole new audience , kids under 21 who had never even heard of him . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Some do not realise that they are pregnant at all , like Lorraine , who had never even started her periods . |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | Though impulsive in some ways , she was an ordinary , practical girl who had never really believed in grand passion or love at first sight . |
| 7 | Then , as she obeyed , he was reaching into the back seat of the car and lifting out Kirsty , who had never once stirred . |
| 8 | Ken , the loner and the camp actor who had never actually admitted his homosexuality , proposed marriage to Joan . |
| 9 | Neckar Island was owned by Lord Cobham , who had never actually set foot on it himself . |
| 10 | Lanier , 66 , was a wealthy white property developer who had never before run for public office . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There was a moment of silence , and Matilda , who had never before heard great romantic poetry spoken aloud , was profoundly moved . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Here is a poem by a ten-year-old girl who had never before written any poetry . |
| 17 | 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 " . |
| 18 | The post-1950 returnees were joined by some who had never before left the villages . |
| 19 | 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 . |