Example sentences of "had never [vb pp] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eleven of 36 male CLO patients had never smoked and of those who had smoked the median pack years accumulated was 15 ( mean 20.3 , range 5–60 pack years ) . |
| 2 | The fact that the Queen was pro-German would have been particularly hurtful to the Emperor personally , for only he had not succumbed to the general enthusiasm for a war he had never wanted and for which he feared the country was ill-prepared . |
| 3 | She had been relieved when he first appeared in it ; it was bright blue striped with red , expensive , obviously new , a reassuring sign that the mother she had never met and of whom he never spoke , tried to take good care of him . |
| 4 | When she died ( about 1925 ) , she left instructions in her Will for her body to be buried in this green paradise about which she had heard so much , and yet which she had never visited except in her dreams . |
| 5 | Even during the war-time emergency itself , women with children under fourteen were never conscripted , and evidence from the Ministry of Labour files suggests that interviewing panels behaved with greater leniency towards those married women who had never worked than towards those ( predominantly working class ) women who had . |
| 6 | With microwave ovens , Manila and the flu epidemic suddenly dominating the news it was as if the event had never occurred except in Sir Anthony Meyer 's imagination . |