Example sentences of "had never [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Britain appeared to have little interest in the area , Russia was preoccupied with her domestic problems , and in any case the Tsar had never forgiven Austria for her lack of support during the Crimean War . |
| 2 | Cedric had been just too young for the war , and for this he had never forgiven Fate . |
| 3 | He had never studied anatomy very closely . |
| 4 | He had never taught boys who were less than well-grounded in traditional academic subjects . |
| 5 | Before without really knowing it , I was just preparing for that one lesson to get through that one lesson , but partly I think as a matter of survival in this situation , because I had never taught children before and really did n't have an overview at that point . |
| 6 | Morse had never seen Mrs Marion Kemp , but from the marriage photograph that hung in the living room he realised that she must once have been quite a vivacious woman : dark , curly hair ; slim , firm figure ; and curiously impudent , puckish eyes . |
| 7 | He had been born in England , had never seen India , spoke English as his cradle tongue and had forgotten all the Hindi he had ever learned but he had all the immigrant 's protective reactions and all his self-consciousness . |
| 8 | There were about two hundred and fifty cadets in residence and some of them had never seen cadets from another corps . |
| 9 | She thought that McAllister had never seen misery before , and that her response to it was a warm and loving one — and practical , too . |
| 10 | But he had never seen Tara ; he had been abandoned at birth , he had been flung out by the King , who would have none of his Queen 's bastard wolfson at his Court . |
| 11 | But he had never seen Farouk 's face . |
| 12 | She had never seen Ianthe handing out books to the ill-mannered grubby students and cranks of all ages who frequented the library of political and sociological books where she worked . |
| 13 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |
| 14 | He had never seen Nails before as other than a surly , rude boy , but now he was smiling and looked light-headed . |
| 15 | He had never seen Myles Burke laugh before . |
| 16 | But Duncan had never seen weeds dripping fresh from the loch before . |
| 17 | I had never seen Cherry in a suit before . |
| 18 | Inside the hall of the house in Maryon Park Gardens , a tearful , frightened little man was explaining that his name was Bill Pitkin , that he was not Terry Place , that he had never seen Terry Place nor ever heard of him . |
| 19 | On visiting the Landes Park flock , much publicised by the Tesco supermarket advertisements featuring Dudley Moore , David Whiting , on behalf of CIWF , commented that he had never seen chickens kept in better conditions . |
| 20 | From the day they had all parted , diverging from Ecalpemos out into the world , he had never seen Adam again , but he knew all about him , knew for instance that he had become a partner in a company selling computers that called itself Verne-Smith-Duchini . |
| 21 | I had never seen water that was that blue . |
| 22 | This was n't the India I knew : during five previous visits I had never seen women kiss each other . |
| 23 | He had never seen hair of such a full , glowing gold , or a fairer brow underneath it . |
| 24 | Wycliffe had never seen Alfred before but he was in no doubt , the Glynn features and physique were unmistakable . |
| 25 | Tears had run on his cheeks as she had never seen tears coming from an adult man before . |
| 26 | ‘ I have never seen Soho on the screen , ’ wrote Ernest Betts in 1928 and then he added that he had never seen Southend , Birmingham , Chelsea , Bloomsbury , or London suburbia either . |
| 27 | He had never seen Mandy look contrite before , and he decided , wickedly , to make her suffer a bit before he let her off the hook . |
| 28 | He expanded his original idea of doing a show on the artist 's late works after the Wall came down , because the people in the former East had never seen Picasso 's paintings . |
| 29 | And at the foot of the iron structure was a high steel fender , suggesting from its dull surface that it had never seen emery paper since the day it left the foundry . |
| 30 | I had never seen Squire Trelawney so near . |