Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] never [verb] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'd never had any problems with my periods , so when I finally decided to see a specialist , I was more curious than anything else . ’ |
| 2 | I had never seen such crowds before and when we joined the big queue to get in , some of the young people became ‘ up by ’ as we say , which means excitable . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She had never felt such things , only the vaguest intimations . |
| 5 | Naturally , she had never mentioned these doubts to Brian . |
| 6 | Having , as she thought , settled their relationship satisfactorily , Ianthe was then conscious that he was looking at her in a way that did not seem quite what she thought of as brotherly , though she had never had any brothers of her own to make the comparison with . |
| 7 | She had never read any books on the subject and just seemed to know what to do . |
| 8 | And Doña Ximena and her daughters stood trembling , like women who had never seen such things before : and when the Cid saw it he made them seat themselves , so as no longer to behold it . |
| 9 | Briefly , over a 14 month period starting in May 1968 , 1400 general practitioners throughout the United Kingdom recruited 23000 women who were using oral contraceptives and a similar number of women who had never used these preparations . |
| 10 | He had never made any bones about it , and , to be honest , he was much more use out on the slopes , chatting people up , showing off the exclusive styles they sold and being a general advertisement for the place . |
| 11 | To his credit , he had never engineered such postings and , in the early part of 1944 , he would rather have gone anywhere than remain in close proximity to Liza Tremayne . |
| 12 | He had never had any aspirations to enter politics . |