Example sentences of "who had never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Chapman was by now a famous man , and his name was familiar to thousands who had never attended a football match , on a social level he remained as affable and unassuming as the next man . |
| 2 | One touching moment during a Love Feast in Edenderry was once when a visitor to the service , who had never attended a Love Feast before but who had felt he wished to share in it , stood and held up half the biscuit he had been given . |
| 3 | We had taken a London business colleague out who had never fished before ; the sort of man who had done everything and knew everything . |
| 4 | MR IAN PAISLEY , leader of Ulster 's Democratic Unionist Party , has been bequeathed £50,000 by an 86-year-old English widow who had never met him . |
| 5 | A rabbi from Glasgow , who had never met the parents at all , wanted to visit the Jewish children . |
| 6 | However , I did not anticipate it would be quite so moving to one who had never met the man himself . |
| 7 | Furthermore three of the company 's directors , who had never met , had been paid for use of their names . |
| 8 | Even those who had never met her could tell from her letters and articles that she had something special ; an eye for the kind of colourful details people would remember . |
| 9 | When he passed through an ivy-clad trellis arch and saw the man he sought , however , raking dead leaves and twigs into an incinerator , he realized how absurd the idea was that they could somehow be twin actors of the same part who had never met on stage till this unscripted moment . |
| 10 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 11 | The outbreak of war found him a colonel of fifty-eight , who had never served abroad . |
| 12 | Dixon , one of the longest serving of Wycliffe 's DCs and one who had never sought or wanted promotion , was duty officer . |
| 13 | ( Many Keynesians who had never accepted the Phillips curve regarded its ‘ breakdown ’ as the long overdue come uppance of an uninvited and unwelcome intruder . ) |
| 14 | We agreed that the man or woman does not exist who had never made a mistake , however foolish . |
| 15 | She , who had never made more than toast at a schoolroom fire , became an enthusiastic , if variable , cook . |
| 16 | And Caroline , who had never developed the art of flirting , behaved as if it came as naturally to her as breathing . |
| 17 | Nicandra , who had never cooked , became expert and devoted ; for the timing of a souffle even love could be denied , the perfect souffle her present for him . |
| 18 | He and Packford had to work under appallingly difficult circumstances , with a skeleton staff and a jobbing printer who had never done anything like it before , and the actual paper was printed on cheap newsprint . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's disgusting , ’ contributed Mrs Harper from time to time , presenting her flat , mean , worthless little counter simply because she could not bear to remain silent , to sit back where others played , although she recognized herself temporarily outnumbered , ‘ disgusting , I call it , ’ and Shirley , hearing this phrase for the millionth time , had a vision of households all over Britain in which censorious , ignorant old bags like her mother-in-law , who had never done anything for the public good , who had nothing positive ever to contribute to any argument , passed judgement on others while stuffing themselves with goose and roast potatoes and sprouts and apple sauce . |
| 20 | was far too erm advanced for people who had never done the subject before . |
| 21 | And Doña Ximena and her daughters stood trembling , like women who had never seen such things before : and when the Cid saw it he made them seat themselves , so as no longer to behold it . |
| 22 | This was fantastic for a little boy who had never seen such a toy . |
| 23 | When I came across Kathleen Woodward 's Jipping Street I read it with the shocked amazement of one who had never seen what she knew written down before . |
| 24 | The love that had been denied her was always there , together with fond recollections of the father who had never seen him . |
| 25 | A creature who had never seen a world outside this Castle . |
| 26 | The blood , the gaping holes , the bone sticking out of flesh , the stench of burst intestines — I am telling you this only because the effect on me , a boy who had never seen even a peacefully dead body before that day , was one I should never have predicted . |
| 27 | Fenella , who had never seen a map quite like this one , had curled up on the floor to listen . |
| 28 | But he 'd stood up well to that first interview , hindered rather than helped by the presence of his solicitor , who had never seen his client before and had made it painfully apparent that he would prefer never to see him again . |
| 29 | It is possible that the young Evelyn , who had never seen a Court masque , was easily impressed . |
| 30 | So , if I asked you to describe paper to someone who had never seen it before , you might suggest they visualise it as a sort of hard , smooth ‘ cloth ’ . |