Example sentences of "he [vb past] never [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 He 'd never heard of it .
2 The local man said he 'd never heard of such a thing .
3 He 'd never heard of Vecchi and was n't interested in finding anybody by that name .
4 Funny … he 'd never heard of a company called ‘ Princes Street ’ .
5 Apart from the essentials , there was a lot of luxury stuff : pate de foie gras , smoked salmon , tins of continental delicacies he 'd never heard of and did n't want to try .
6 ‘ Keith added a huge thing to the band , ’ enthuses Bryan , ‘ and he 'd never recorded on an album before .
7 He hated verbal theories , he did n't read much , he 'd never travelled outside the states , he punched people up , and when he was drunk at parties he pissed into the fireplace .
8 He 'd never hankered after the travelling life .
9 There was , however , an instinct in him when it came to Judith that he 'd never experienced with any other woman .
10 ‘ Do n't worry , Cawthorne deserves everything that 's coming to him , ’ said McInnes in a tone I bet he 'd never used on Sorrel .
11 Shae had laughed too , but it had been an effort , most of all because he 'd never relaxed like that in her company .
12 Harold Wilson always used to say he 'd never got past page one , did n't he ?
13 But he 'd never known for certain and still did n't know now .
14 He 'd never smiled at her like that .
15 Earlier today she 'd been jealous because he 'd smiled at the three women in a way he 'd never smiled at her .
16 He looked as though he 'd never smiled in his life .
17 There were twenty minutes of extra time played , in which a kid called Martin came on — he had never played in first grade before — and scored the clinching try for Canberra .
18 He had never felt as if he belonged .
19 There was an agony inside him which he had never felt before and he closed his eyes briefly .
20 Sweat lashed his brow : he had never felt like this before .
21 He had never felt like that himself towards any woman , but he knew that such a feeling must be love .
22 He felt drugged , by her perfume and her presence ; he felt … like he had never felt in his life before .
23 Lucifer 's face was so devil-like as he said it that he frightened even Izzie , a thing he had never done on stage .
24 Muldoon was beginning to get an uncomfortable feeling that he was pushing his opinions too far , something he had never done in his life .
25 And Mr Wolski did something he had never done in the Zoo before : he whistled the tune of a childhood song while he worked .
26 He had gone on to a party at a rich woman 's house , he explained , and seen a display of drinks such as he had never seen on earth before .
27 The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life .
28 Bob , arriving at the office before Dyson one morning , found a man he had never seen before working at poor old Eddy 's desk .
29 He could think , with a brief twist of the old cynicism , that he had never seen inside Tara anyway and that he could not miss what he had never had .
30 Thank goodness he had never rushed into anything-though that was partly because he had never found the woman he wanted to rush into anything with .
  Next page