Example sentences of "never in her [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Christ ! ’ she said , and the next moment , forgetful of her own safety , she had Maggie in her arms , shushing and soothing as she had never in her life done before . |
| 2 | Her Aunt Elizabeth lived in a small house in the depths of the country near Hereford , and as she her self had never in her life been outside of Birmingham , the journey was like visiting a foreign country . |
| 3 | She had never in her life undressed in front of a man — not even a doctor . |
| 4 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 5 | Clara was staggered and bewitched ; she had never in her life seen anything like it . |
| 6 | Never in her life had she felt so sure of anyone , as she did then of this enchanted warrior woman . |
| 7 | He went into her giant bathroom to take his mind off things and stood there awhile between her mirrors , thinking not particularly of how he looked himself but mostly of the inflections that she had caught from Fred , and also of how it must feel to be this negligently perfect child , who had obviously never in her life spent herself combating a flaw . |
| 8 | Never in her life had she felt less like eating than she did at this moment . |
| 9 | Charlotte had never in her life felt obliged to examine her relationships with anyone . |
| 10 | Never in her life had the penguin heard so many words . |
| 11 | And she meant it , for she liked her college room , she was even mildly proud of it , and the thought of entertaining Clelia in it did not alarm her , though she had a deep aversion to the notion of entertainment , and had never in her whole three years at University embarked on the ritual tea parties or more ambitious sherry parties that mark the social life of such establishments . |
| 12 | I mean , Diana herself has never in her lifetime uttered one statement that has been of any use to any member of the human race . ’ |