Example sentences of "had never [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A tiny flame of hope that Luce had never even acknowledged flickered and died as his words , and the facts behind them , hammered themselves into her brain . |
| 32 | Unfortunately the wretched girl had never even turned up . |
| 33 | His entire past was cut away from him as though he , and the world he had known , had never even existed . |
| 34 | You know , this man who was hanging on the cross beside Jesus he had not been christened , he had n't been dedicated , he had never been to a confirmation class in his life , he had never been baptized , he had never been received into church membership he had never even gathered around the Lord 's table ! |
| 35 | She would rather die of starvation , or sunburn , than face Piers Morrison , who had revealed a side to her which she had never even suspected existed . |
| 36 | ( His parents had never even noticed the faint scratches . |
| 37 | Even the smell of the Spring flowers became apparent , something he had never even noticed before in daylight . |
| 38 | They had never been parted before — they had never even lived in different houses . |
| 39 | In fact I had never even imagined life without fat so it was something of a challenge to create a very low fat diet for myself , first of all , and then for my slimmers — a diet which at the same time as being very low in fat included all the necessary nutrients . |
| 40 | A father himself now , he thought of those parents of hers , her mother and stepfather , who had lost her and apparently had never searched , had never even declared their loss , been glad to be rid of her . |
| 41 | Thoughts of that had never even entered her head . |
| 42 | Julius , who during their brief engagement and marriage had never even told her he loved her . |
| 43 | Some do not realise that they are pregnant at all , like Lorraine , who had never even started her periods . |
| 44 | Melanie had never even known an orphan before and now here she was , an orphan herself . |
| 45 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
| 46 | It had never even occurred to her to wonder why the land where the cottage had stood was still empty . |
| 47 | 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 ? ’ |
| 48 | Amabel had never exchanged a word with an actress in her life and had never even set eyes before on a divorced woman . |
| 49 | Sybil had never even set eyes on Rodney so they could n't possibly suspect him of her murder , now could they ? |
| 50 | It suddenly occurred to me that I had been so busy enjoying myself on the Mantela that I had never even opened either of them . |
| 51 | UNTIL two years ago Paul Grayson , Lancashire 's young fly-half with unlimited potential , had never even thought of appearing in a major representative match at Twickenham . |
| 52 | It seemed dreadful that I did n't know whether I loved him or not , that I had never even thought of it in those terms . |
| 53 | Quite soon after the note , I began to suspect — what I had never even thought about , for some naive reason — that I might be pregnant . |
| 54 | Killion had never even thought about it . |
| 55 | Her work and studies had been so all-consuming that she had never even had a boyfriend ! |
| 56 | She had never even expected him to help with the dishes when she had fed him here . |
| 57 | ‘ He would say she had never even let him buy a sock , before . |
| 58 | ‘ 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 . |
| 59 | But she had been forbidden by her mother to have anything to do with her Pascoe cousins , and she was sure Tristram was under the same veto as far as she was concerned ; and for a long time — years — she had never even spoken a word to him . |
| 60 | They had never even tried it until she had first seen Alain and now it seemed that every step she took was to be supervised . |