Example sentences of "he had never [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , when I was seven years old , I should have thought him a very silly little boy indeed not to have understood about metaphorically speaking , even if he had never heard of it , and it does seem that what he possessed in the way of scientific approach he lacked in common sense . |
| 2 | He had never heard of God … |
| 3 | Abrams , who said he had never heard of such a thing before , asked him no more about them . |
| 4 | Calero said he had never heard of it , except to read about it : ‘ Was that the one we were supposed to blow up on the high seas ? ’ |
| 5 | Tawell , who was deeply affronted that such a respectable businessman should be arrested on such a charge , exclaimed that he had never heard of Sara Hart , nor of Salt Hill , and he had definitely never been there . |
| 6 | and to appear in court , he found himself caught up in a drama in which he had been cast as The Defendant , facing the man he had known as Rich whom everyone called The Plaintiff , and being called to order by someone he had never heard of before called The Registrar and his right hand man The Clerk of the Court — and all in the unfamiliar setting ( set ) of a courtroom . |
| 7 | He said that he had never heard of ‘ the place ’ [ the seat of Compton or Burnett ancestors ] . |
| 8 | If I did not add this information , I felt I should be told that he had never heard of M. Guérigny . |
| 9 | Eight hours ago he had never heard of any of them , now he was thinking of them by their first names : Francis , Edwin , Beryl , Anna , Cathy … |
| 10 | He had never heard of anyone actually reaching the German trenches , so he was n't sure what he was supposed to do next , and despite all the training he still found it hard to shoot on the run . |
| 11 | Now , as he stumbled towards the window of his room , he recognized that resentment lay behind his disbelief : resentment that his friendship with Dysart might have an origin he had never dreamed of ; that , in lending him a helping hand whenever he could , Dysart had merely been slumming . |
| 12 | With Chris he had known a joy he had never dreamed of . |
| 13 | He had never talked of it with anyone else . |
| 14 | Because this was a Thursday and he had never thought of going out on a Thursday before , and because of the previous Saturday night , coming back to collect the washing . |
| 15 | He had never thought of himself as a master of the understatement , but his message to Hayman was something of a gem . |
| 16 | When they had met at the pub , and boasted of the ease of the despatch of the packet that Michael Holly would carry , he had never thought of a moment such as this . |
| 17 | He had never thought of it in quite those terms , but it was true . |
| 18 | Asked whether people who give to the WWF to protect such things as pandas , whales and rainforests realized that their money is also being used in this way , in particular to support the bloodsport of angling , he said he had never thought of angling as a bloodsport and donations had been listed in their magazine . |
| 19 | He had never thought of trying to foster an attachment which he would have considered quite improper . |