Example sentences of "had never [vb pp] [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to talk to him in a way she had never wanted to talk to anyone before , but he was next door , not here . |
| 2 | He had an aunt in Leicester who had died of double pneumonia in 1964 , but she had never wanted to speak to him . |
| 3 | It had never seemed to occur to anyone else that she might still do so , and part of her self-loathing was due to the fact that she did n't know . |
| 4 | Most Christians had a strong reserve towards that polytheism that pervaded society , which is not to say that there were not quiet compromisers , like the Christians of southern Spain early in the fourth century who held official cultic positions in the worship of Jupiter , or the bishop of Troy who could painlessly apostatize under Julian because he had never ceased to pray to the sun-god . |
| 5 | It was finally out , the declaration which he had never thought to make to any woman , after Angela , but the huddled figure on the sofa was not placated . |
| 6 | As Mrs Abigail struggled through the morning , she was repeatedly reminded , as though this truth sought to mock her , that she had never wished to come to Dynmouth . |
| 7 | For his supporters , the resignation was an embarrassing puzzle : why had he resigned so soon after accepting the presidency , as a result of a quarrel with a " system " that he had largely created , over constitutional principles whose significance he had never bothered to explain to the French people ? |