Example sentences of "had never [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had never wholly believed it , but oh , how desperately she had wanted to ! |
| 2 | After all , they were going to live in a village they had never even seen , and during the next hour or so they would discover what manner of place their new home was . |
| 3 | She even climbed to the old attic that she had never even seen before ; perhaps here there would be some painting he had done long ago . |
| 4 | I had never even seen a Muslim — apart , of course , from on the television , and the ones I had seen there — I will be absolutely frank — did not seem a particularly inspiring bunch ! ’ |
| 5 | Many thousands of children had never even seen , let alone owned a pair of shoes . |
| 6 | Most of the children had never even seen a banana before let alone tasted one . |
| 7 | She had never even referred to herself as his stepsister before ! |
| 8 | She had never even asked if there was a photograph of her father , and she supposed they had been so careful not to upset her that they had never offered one . |
| 9 | He had never asked her to marry him , he had never even said directly and seriously ‘ I love you ’ , he was not bound to her in any way explicitly . |
| 10 | With Madonna he bought himself a whole new audience , kids under 21 who had never even heard of him . |
| 11 | The girls had never met their father 's one-time patron , had never even heard of her . |
| 12 | Trying not to think about her possible reaction , Henry loaded cured fish , offal , red meat and a bold assortment of vegetables he had never even heard of , let alone eaten . |
| 13 | A recent survey showed that two-thirds of French small businessmen had never even heard of patents or trade marks . |
| 14 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 15 | When I was a child and had never even heard the word ‘ regression ’ , I was always fascinated by anything to do with the Tudor period of English history . |
| 16 | I often wished later that I had named Trotsky instead , because his principles were more in accord with the way I felt about the place by the time I left , but at that time I had never even heard of him . |
| 17 | It was an awesome sight to Owen — the charred and burning cottages almost totally engulfed , the huddled families powerless before the wanton destruction of all they possessed , their torturers still encircling him , screaming out the names of tunes he had never even heard of . |
| 18 | Alina , on the other hand , had never even heard of James Herbert . |
| 19 | However , she did not realize that the old lady had never even heard about the family connection . |
| 20 | They pointed me towards writers I had never even heard of , let alone read . |
| 21 | ( Yet , by Mr Foster 's account , they had never even liked the man . ) |
| 22 | ‘ The truth is that I had never even met him . ’ |
| 23 | She had never been to Hereford before , had never even met the people they were going to visit and — being just four years old and as yet unable to read — could never have learnt about the district from a book . |
| 24 | The next parcel contained some Chiliprufe underwear from May Thorne , who Willie had never even met . |
| 25 | She shades her eyes to see better two people clutching each other in evident close camaraderie who to the best of her knowledge had never even met . |
| 26 | Perhaps it would have been better if this last week had never happened , if she had never even met Fen Marshall . |
| 27 | She had never even met him until coming to the club . |
| 28 | Although he had a reasonably good idea of what went on between men and women , so far he had never even kissed a girl . |
| 29 | He had never even kissed her . |
| 30 | The letter had destroyed at one blow a certainty so obvious that he had never even questioned it : his conception of the relationship between his parents . |