Example sentences of "[noun pl] had never [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the land was largely champaign , some demesnes had never lain in common field , or had long ceased to do so . |
| 2 | The Pétains had never boasted of a military tradition . |
| 3 | A survey for the Welsh Consumers ' Council shows that 40pc of shoppers had never heard of the Government 's citizens ' charter despite publicity costing £350,000 . |
| 4 | It looked just like the picture of Gullible or whoever he was , except the nomes had got hold of what the nomes in those days had never heard of , which was lots of electric wire . |
| 5 | He had come to France ( in which he spent more than half his life as king of England ) and had , as contemporaries recognised , achieved considerable conquests , something which his predecessors had never done on that scale or within so short a period of time . |
| 6 | For Rosebery , for Milner , even for Lloyd George , there had been temptation in coalition ever since the Boer War , but such dreams had never come into the political daylight . |
| 7 | Ludens had never got on so easily with a woman , not even with Sylvia , who had always been ‘ playing the feminine ’ . |
| 8 | The director-general , Michael Checkland , once publicly reprimanded The Late Show 's producers , reminding them that most licence-fee payers had never heard of — let alone visited — the Groucho Club . |
| 9 | This was something the authorities had never dreamt of doing . |
| 10 | But the novelists had never heard of Marx and Engels — and if they had heard of them and their ideas , they would probably have recoiled in horror , perceiving the threat to their own privileged position . |