Example sentences of "[pron] never [verb] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I never heard such nonsense , ’ he blustered . |
| 2 | ‘ I never heard such cheeky kids in all my life . |
| 3 | I never heard such nonsense . " |
| 4 | ‘ I never heard such a thing ! |
| 5 | " I never believed such stupidity could exist , " the Collector said to McNab , for whom he had come to entertain a great respect . |
| 6 | I think I never witnessed such a squabble of people rushing into a building . |
| 7 | I never had such a thing before , and I am like a child when it comes to running water . |
| 8 | Breitenstein ( 1980 : 193 ) gives three different senses for have in its use with the bare infinitive : ( a ) I 'll have him clear up this mess ( an instruction ) ( b ) I wo n't have you say that ( a strong wish ) ( c ) I never had such a thing happen to me ( an experience ) |
| 9 | I never saw such an ugly family as the Havards . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I never saw such good use made of knives and forks before … ’ recorded a P & O passenger in his diary of a voyage east in the 1860s . |
| 11 | ‘ I never saw such a union of earth , sky , and sea , ’ Dorothy wrote following one hill-top walk . |
| 12 | I never saw such a fool in my life . |
| 13 | VISITING LADY : I never saw such a face and shape in my life . |
| 14 | I never saw such smooth socks on a man . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I never saw such a carry-on . |
| 16 | 10 October , 1903 RAYMOND ASQUITH writes to Lady Manners from Aberdeenshire : ‘ We had a storm yesterday and went out to watch the waves : I ventured too far out onto a rock and was knocked flat on my face against a granite floor by one of the biggest rollers ever seen on this coast : I never felt such a blow ; luckily I fell in a crevice and was n't washed away ; but I was stunned for a few seconds , and when I got up my face and knee were streaming with blood . |
| 17 | I 'm sure I never implied such a thing . |
| 18 | ‘ And you never tasted such toffee ! |
| 19 | Well , you never saw such a sight . |
| 20 | He met two artists , husband and wife , ‘ awfully sweet , she has a bold yet subtle and exotic sense of colour ’ , and thought of trying her for the costumes ; he had already got another artist to try and ‘ you never saw such revue in all your life ’ . |
| 21 | You never saw such a frenzy as her frantic rush to dress herself , me pulling outfits from the wardrobe , she rejecting them as fast as they landed on the bed , trying on and discarding until she stood there in a stew of irritation and indecision in nothing but bra and panties . |
| 22 | You never saw such a busy house . |
| 23 | and there 's a there 's a farm for sale opposite there , you never saw such a wreck in all your life . |
| 24 | David was one of those frustrating , enigmatic footballers who perform brilliantly in opposition against you , but who never reproduce such quality of performance when they become a player at your club . |
| 25 | ‘ You know he never said such a thing . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I bet he never said such rubbish . ’ |
| 27 | He never reached such eminence again and had caddied , less reliably and more cantankerously , for a succession of middling golfers . |
| 28 | Soon as the royal visitor had gone , he called us in and told us never to do such a thing again . |