Example sentences of "[verb] never [vb pp] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " He has never asked me to go at this time of night before , " she whispered . |
| 2 | He has two or three bidets in his house in Beverly Hills , but he has never seen them used in this way , with gusto . |
| 3 | Judges have occasionally commented on her melanomas but it has never affected her placing in the show ring . |
| 4 | She can not guess at his anxieties or burdens because she has never encouraged him to talk about them or found time to stop whatever she was doing and listen . |
| 5 | I asked him once why I 'd never seen him mentioned in any of the endless stuff about his movement , and he said he thought some of them had to stay anonymous . |
| 6 | He 'd never seen her look like that before , and when he thought of why she looked like that he wanted to throttle her . |
| 7 | I 'd never felt he cared for me but at last we sat and talked . |
| 8 | I 'd never heard her speak like this before . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've never heard me complain about Annette 's cooking . ’ |
| 11 | I 've never heard you swear in my life . |
| 12 | " I 've never seen him speak to anyone . |
| 13 | I 've never seen them walk round the flats , I 've seen the odd one or two with the security guards , |
| 14 | If you thought chess was a slow , perhaps even dull game , then you 've never seen it played like this . |
| 15 | You know : the things youngsters stick on their cars to make 'em look like racers — but I 've never seen it done to a clapped-out old van before . ’ |
| 16 | I do n't know Miguelito — I 've never met him to speak to . ’ |
| 17 | I 've never stopped myself talking to her about anything before , she thought . |
| 18 | I 've never known him go for the skinny boyish type before . ’ |
| 19 | Know can also be found in the operative sense followed by the to infinitive : ( 110 ) I 've never known him to lie to me . |
| 20 | I 've never known anyone suffering from a life-threatening illness who does breathe properly . ’ |
| 21 | I 've never had anything to do with cars . ’ |
| 22 | She had never seen him engaged in such mundane activity , and yet he did not seem to –ind her presence an embarrassment . |
| 23 | Len was different ; she had never seen him look at another girl like that . |
| 24 | At first she did not notice him standing there near her cage in the darkening gloom but when she did she did something he had never seen her do in all the years he had watched her . |
| 25 | Some owners of OTC-traded warrants claimed that they had never received anything written about exercising them at all . |
| 26 | Jane had never heard him speak with such enthusiasm about anybody before . |
| 27 | Ruth had never heard him speak with any seriousness before , had hardly seen him without a smile on his face . |
| 28 | She had never heard him scream like it , the dreadful sound echoed back from the sides of the skip and his fists were hard as little rocks . |
| 29 | The children had never heard her speak to him sharply before . |
| 30 | Another strange picture hung in Hilbert 's room , one that Adam had never allowed himself to think about . |