Example sentences of "he had never [adv] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had never asked her to marry him , he had never even said directly and seriously ‘ I love you ’ , he was not bound to her in any way explicitly . |
| 2 | Even the smell of the Spring flowers became apparent , something he had never even noticed before in daylight . |
| 3 | The nephew , seeing something about Auntie he had never properly perceived before , said quite humbly : " Yes , I see … " |
| 4 | He had been truly godforsaken today , he was thinking as he sank ; he had never before done so much violence to anyone . |
| 5 | He dared not do so for he knew one thing for certain — that he had never really fallen out of love with this stunningly beautiful girl . |
| 6 | What she had n't noticed until now , being much too busy getting on with her own life , was that he had never really come back out . |
| 7 | Then he 'd kissed her and walked away ; and though she waited until he was out of sight , he had never once looked back to where she stood . |