Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | WHEN it was first screened in 1989 , Birds of a Feather ( Sunday , BBC1 , 8.20pm ) caused outrage , not because of the language , but because viewers had never heard women speak like that on television before . |
2 | No , I 'd never heard Hilary mention him , ’ said Mrs Frome . |
3 | She had never heard Louise speak in this tone of voice before . |
4 | She had never heard Foucard speak so soothingly , so encouragingly . |
5 | Emmie thought she had never heard people laugh so much or sound so happy . |
6 | I had never heard Pike sing in real life , so I could n't tell how this spirit voice matched up to the real one . |
7 | He had never let Anthony carry that much around . |
8 | I have never seen England play better than they did against Ireland and I 'm sure few other people would argue about that . |
9 | ‘ Except in the celebrations that greeted the end of World War II , I have never seen England look as unashamedly delighted by life as it did during the World Cup , ’ Arthur Hopcraft has written . |
10 | I had to admit that I 'd never seen Darren look so good . |
11 | I said I thought he was a right in fact I 've never seen Sally like it before I said I felt quite really |
12 | This was n't the India I knew : during five previous visits I had never seen women kiss each other . |
13 | He 'd never seen stars like he 'd seen them around here , cold and diamond-sharp and so many . |
14 | I 'd never seen Terry look so hopeful about anything before . |
15 | I 've never seen Guy like that . |
16 | I 've never seen people eat chips , cos you know how you get sick of chips sometimes , we 's shovelling down the chips down and coke , proper coke they were drinking . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | There were alot of helicopters going overhead and when they came I have never seen children move so fast . |
19 | I 've never seen guys cough up so fast ! ’ |
20 | John had never seen men work so willingly or cheerfully . |
21 | He had never seen Englishmen get themselves into such a state before ; they looked more like untouchables . |
22 | He had never seen Cranston like this before . |
23 | OK , so I 've never seen Kurt look quite that pale before , and I 'm not sure it 's such a good idea for Courtney to be zipping about with Kurt on that hired motorbike while seven months pregnant but , hell , it 's not as if anyone 's dead . |
24 | I ai n't never seen Marie like this . |