Example sentences of "[vb past] never know " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd never known anyone for touching things like Lee . |
| 2 | In all his years he 'd never known an August day quite like it . |
| 3 | She 'd never known the Lobster Pot to have so much atmosphere . |
| 4 | She 'd never known a true home . |
| 5 | I 'd never known him believe in anything before , so it was an amazing novelty to find him literally staking his life on the principle of absolute patriarchal authority . |
| 6 | I 'm afraid of dogs , but a rage the like of which I 'd never known before — and rarely since — took hold of me and I wanted to kill it , rip it limb from limb and tear at its throat with my teeth . |
| 7 | He 'd never known a time when Klein did n't need money for some gambit or other , and that meant he needed painters . |
| 8 | I was beginning to understand a lot I 'd never known about before , and for the first time that day Toby 's fatal unthinking words came back to me : " One day she 'll have a baby without ever having understood what love really means . " |
| 9 | Round about four o'clock he did a thing I 'd never known him do since I got there — he started to play his guitar . |
| 10 | The oil mixed with the glutinous juices which oozed from her agitated vagina to create a mess such as she 'd never known between her legs . |
| 11 | He could remember how , after moving out here and having been a city-dweller all of his life , he 'd come to realise that he 'd never known what true darkness was ; even away from houses and street lighting there had always been a faint , reflected amber cast to the sky , but here there was nothing . |
| 12 | Even the older villagers claimed they 'd never known anything like it . |
| 13 | My father said he 'd never known a season before when chairs and commodes were the best crops . ’ |
| 14 | She 'd never known a man speak so softly — or to greater effect . |
| 15 | She 'd never known a woman , she thought to herself , who dressed so conventionally , whose face was more boringly nondescript , whose hairdresser performed such miracles of dreariness . |
| 16 | He 'd never known what it could be like before . |
| 17 | Vainly some remaining logical part of her mind sought excuses but was drowned by the sheer surge of basic responses she 'd never known she possessed . |
| 18 | She had to call on acting powers she 'd never known she possessed to face Marianne calmly , but before she could say a word there was a knock on the door and Josh 's friendly , bearded face appeared . |
| 19 | I 'd never known Hilda well , my father had remarried after I had left home , and Susan was already sixteen . |
| 20 | She 'd never known any details ; she did n't know if the accident happened early on , or whether she would have to sit for a long time just waiting for the inevitable . |
| 21 | He 'd never known such fury before . |
| 22 | But he 'd never known for certain and still did n't know now . |
| 23 | He 'd never known a boy to fail seven interviews . |
| 24 | She 'd always known what he was , and she — she was no silly eighteen-year-old who 'd never known a man 's touch . |
| 25 | His caresses had urged her to a wild , uninhibited passion she 'd never known she possessed — but it was the love she felt for him that had sent her into such a breathtaking completion . |
| 26 | I wished I 'd never known that |
| 27 | Supporters tearful , this woman saying that Russia had been reborn , that she 'd never known such happiness . |
| 28 | Jay had never known it to work for more than weeks . |
| 29 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 30 | Before that I had never known that human beings could do such things to others , but after that I knew . |