Example sentences of "they had never [vb pp] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had never heard of the Greeks , unless you counted the man who kept the Acropolis restaurant in Stowerton , and neither could now understand the emotion which held each of them , preserving him in silence and a kind of despair . |
| 2 | They had never heard of Fulham . |
| 3 | It can be no coincidence that the famed Fund of Funds , which so many investors wish they had never heard of , was set up by Bernie Cornfield . |
| 4 | As for the letters to the museum itself and the director , Feigen says that they were apparently intercepted and sent on to Hildenbrand : ‘ When we contacted the museum to ask why payment had not been forthcoming , they had never heard of us ’ . |
| 5 | They had never heard of England , but thought it must be somewhere near Cairo . |
| 6 | These children had n't learnt to be afraid of animals because they had never heard of Earth , the Burning , or the Book of Remembering . |
| 7 | He was glad for them , they fought so ferociously , as if they had never heard of defeat , they who were already defeated . |
| 8 | When I consulted the Lancashire Association of Parish & Town Councils they had never heard of such a charge being made . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose some of your own nights when you were on the run were not unlike that , ’ she ventured into what they had never spoken of . |
| 10 | And yet they had never spoken of their father 's death . |
| 11 | They had never spoken of the future and what would happen when their time was through but they would , because a love so consuming could n't just end this way . |
| 12 | Both insisted that they had never thought of themselves as husband and wife , and there was no reason why anyone else should do so . |