Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] known a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd never known a man speak so softly — or to greater effect . |
| 2 | She 'd always known what he was , and she — she was no silly eighteen-year-old who 'd never known a man 's touch . |
| 3 | He 'd never known a boy to fail seven interviews . |
| 4 | She 'd never known a woman , she thought to herself , who dressed so conventionally , whose face was more boringly nondescript , whose hairdresser performed such miracles of dreariness . |
| 5 | My father said he 'd never known a season before when chairs and commodes were the best crops . ’ |
| 6 | He 'd never known a time when Klein did n't need money for some gambit or other , and that meant he needed painters . |
| 7 | At Howard she had hardly known a day 's illness . |
| 8 | No-one had ever known a tide as high as that . |
| 9 | And she had never known a man she felt was worthy of the greatest gift she had to offer : herself , body and soul . |
| 10 | And she had never known a man . |
| 11 | He said he had never known a child die of an epileptic fit . |
| 12 | Like most of my generation , I had never known a war , had never had fear rammed down my throat time and time again like the older generation . |
| 13 | He himself had never known a father , being the issue of a man who smoked cigars and a girl plucked from the typing pool of the Cunard buildings in 1913 . |
| 14 | I had never known a woman by that name . |