Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [pron] [vb past] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cool cream , and the expert manipulation of her dancing fingers produced a hard-on like he 'd never had before . |
| 2 | There were thousands of paparazzi and fans because they 'd never had a world premiere in Houston before . |
| 3 | He says he almost refused to accept the card because he had never come across one before . |
| 4 | She did n't know the colour of his eyes because she had never looked into them . |
| 5 | These children had n't learnt to be afraid of animals because they had never heard of Earth , the Burning , or the Book of Remembering . |
| 6 | Hydroelectric schemes and dams , sometimes ill-conceived and subsequently damaging to the environment ; roads and cultivation ; forest clearance , often to make a quick profit : all these and many more ‘ improvements ’ drove the elephant into areas where it had never lived before . |
| 7 | His classmates had called him a sissie because he had never dared to dirty himself by climbing a wall or joining in any of their rough-and-tumble games . |
| 8 | I remembered this recently with all these people falling from express trains but did n't think it could be the same on local lines as I had never heard anyone complain before . |
| 9 | He was spending money like I 'd never seen . |
| 10 | No , I mean , strangely enough that was one of the things that almost put me off the relationship in the first place because I 'd never had any desire to be a mother . |
| 11 | Tears had run on his cheeks as she had never seen tears coming from an adult man before . |
| 12 | This came as a surprise to the band as they had never agreed to play the concert at all and they immediately issued a statement to this effect , fearing that many of their fans were being lured into buying tickets for a Smiths free event . |
| 13 | I think it 's about , I do n't know whether it 's three or four , these men in the radio tower which at that day cos you 'd never had a , a radio tower . |
| 14 | Most Christians had a strong reserve towards that polytheism that pervaded society , which is not to say that there were not quiet compromisers , like the Christians of southern Spain early in the fourth century who held official cultic positions in the worship of Jupiter , or the bishop of Troy who could painlessly apostatize under Julian because he had never ceased to pray to the sun-god . |
| 15 | I liked the experience because I had never done it . |
| 16 | A MAN who complained of 17 years of hounding by the television licensing authority although he had never owned a TV set won a remarkable legal battle and £5,500 expenses yesterday . |
| 17 | Perhaps it would have been better for the apple if it had never had ideas above its station , if it had never started carrying around so much symbolic baggage . |
| 18 | In the Old Testament Book of Job , Satan questioned the integrity of Job 's faith in God because he had never suffered . |
| 19 | Camille , of course , did not care a bit since she had never felt the need of such things . |
| 20 | He 'd be much more a man if he 'd never met you . ’ |
| 21 | She looked at Margaret with a question in her eyes and when she nodded felt a burst of happiness like she had never felt before . |
| 22 | She would n't enjoy sex with another man when she had never enjoyed it with him . |
| 23 | It was in fact the little river Enborne , twelve to fifteen feet wide and at this time of year two or three feet deep with spring rain , but to the rabbits it seemed immense , such a river as they had never imagined . |
| 24 | As I recall it had all started about three months ago when Miss Court first joined the group of church helpers but she was more of a helper as we had never seen her at church before . |
| 25 | Then , for five minutes at least , he was still again , and then , when he knew he was talking with God , his arm went around my shoulder and there came up from the depth of his heart such petitions for men as I had never heard be-fore . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's just a matter of agreeing compensation with them , ’ said Jannie , leading Tessa in and out of rooms impregnated with such poverty and squalor as she had never dreamt existed . |
| 27 | Minutes later he 'phoned back and asked how to place a bet because he 'd never done it before . |