Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] i [verb] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know they sit there going what is a normal case , this is a normal case I 've never seen anything else before . |
| 2 | Man , to this day I 've never been so sick . ’ |
| 3 | Strange , to this day I have never met a priest who was n't afraid to die . |
| 4 | To this day I have never seen him react so quickly . |
| 5 | To this day I have never read Stevenson 's text . |
| 6 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 7 | I netted the same ground six weeks later and had a very good kill of rabbits , but in the whole of my long-netting career I have never known a net to be genuinely swept away by the weight of the rabbits it caught . |
| 8 | This feeling I have never , ever , ever experienced before and I do n't think I will again until I die . |
| 9 | Pahdra Singh 's secretary called earlier to say she would be picking the team for this Saturday 's match and that some kid I have never heard of , Ubahni Singh , will be playing centre-forward ! |
| 10 | I was standing in the back of a small boat , drifting down some English river I 've never seen — the kind with dappled , overhang-ing leaves reflected in the water — grasping a punt-pole in my hands and propelling the flat boat like it was something I 'd done for years . |
| 11 | In all my scientific life I have never seen [ such ] a situation . ’ |
| 12 | My difficulty was further compounded by the fact that for some years my father and I had tended — for some reason I have never really fathomed — to converse less and less . |
| 13 | And there are people , places , history in this country I 'd never even guessed at , though I sometimes feel I know them anyway . ’ |
| 14 | So did the Southernwood which was a feathery blue-green plant — that 's another plant I 've never come across since , although I have to confess that I have n't seen many gardens . |
| 15 | A healthier-looking man I 've never seen , but — ’ |
| 16 | My father died erm sixteen years ago and I was put on to tranquillizers , up until that point I had never needed a drug in my life , and I was put onto tranquillizers and I had a terrible experience ! |
| 17 | Now up to that moment I had never heard of John Searby , one of Gibson 's flight commanders , and he did not appear on " Cocky's ' list . |
| 18 | My parents have a Yorkshire Terrier , and a more obnoxious little dog I have never met ! |
| 19 | Ever since that event I have never taken a trolley off anyone , and have explained why if needed to and told as many people as possible about it . |
| 20 | Since that day I have never spent much time at the green table and , once I got out into the world of journalism , worked hard at it . |
| 21 | It is one place I have never worked at . ’ |
| 22 | He placed his arm round my waist , which gave me a pleasurable feeling I 'd never experienced , and then we set off to the picture house . |
| 23 | Now my twenty first birthday I 'd never had a copper for weeks , w e had n't got anything , anything at all , and all we got really was the old fashioned dog biscuits . |
| 24 | While I suspect that it has absolutely nothing to do with tennis matters , ( although I will seek to justify its inclusion in this column in a moment ) , one thing I have never understood is why long haul flights in airlines are often so much cheaper than those for far shorter journeys . |
| 25 | No it 's er that 's one film I 'd never seen , but I 'd like to see . |
| 26 | And for that reason I try never to look back at what I 've played ; it 's more like living right now , while I 'm playing . |
| 27 | In any case I have never , during more than fifty years of travel , anticipated falling ill . |
| 28 | Certainly in my own experience I have never come across armed smugglers , although on at least one occasion I was threatened with a knife when attempting to stop a seaman leaving a ship , and once I was attached by a ship 's steward when attempting to relieve him of a briefcase full of uncustomed goods . |
| 29 | A beautiful young girl I 've never seen before . |
| 30 | As we sat in the garden behind his surf shop and talked I could feel the long grass beneath my feet with a sensual awareness I 'd never experienced before . |