Example sentences of "she had never [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |
| 2 | She had never suffered from claustrophobia , but right now she could imagine just how its victims felt . |
| 3 | Above her , an eagle soared , its gliding majesty holding her spellbound , and she was lost in a world of her own , a world she had never stepped into before as the beauty , the staggering grandeur and the warmth of Spain gripped her imagination . |
| 4 | She had never felt with this intensity before , and knew she never would again , unless it was Travis who was holding her . |
| 5 | But she had never felt at home with him , perhaps because , with his confident good looks and the air of arrogance in his bearing , he seemed both to represent and to have absorbed something of the mystery and potency of the power he operated . |
| 6 | Rosa thought of the Madonna , and thanked her , thanked her with a welling passion of gratitude such as even she had never felt towards her before that Tommaso had not taken advantage of her total willingness and that she was still intact — no one would be able to say anything against her.They could examine her if they wanted , those witches could paddle inside her to make sure . |
| 7 | She had never felt in danger before , at least not from the sort of attack that menaced the settlers in Palestine , the RIC in their barracks , the Irish in their homes . |
| 8 | She did n't like to own up to the fact that she now stood a little in awe of him , and she had never felt like that with either Mr Martin or his father before him because , in their own ways , they had both been free and easy . |
| 9 | She had never felt like this about Cliff before Debbie was born . |
| 10 | She had never felt like this before in her entire life , knew she would never feel like this for any other man . |
| 11 | She had never felt like this before , she thought dazedly . |
| 12 | But the clog of sound she had never noticed in hospital was removed , as if a plug of cotton wool had been taken out ; that constant humming buzz of the working building like a machine or a living body around her . |
| 13 | Fortunately , she had never fallen into our clutches . |
| 14 | Before she knew him she had never stayed in real hotels with private bathrooms taken for granted , and coloured TVs and room service for all guests . |
| 15 | She had never realized before that Adam had grown to look so like his father . |
| 16 | She had never come across a five-year-old before , or indeed a ten-year-old , who could multiply with such facility . |
| 17 | She had never come to terms with her old life , but , inch by inch , she was coming to terms with this one : her first reality . |
| 18 | Sitting alone and still grieving , in the one-bedroom bungalow , she did something she had never done in all her 38 years of married life . |
| 19 | Aunt Margaret told her to dress herself in her nicest dress and Melanie put on a dress she had never worn in her uncle 's house , a best dress from the old days , dark green corduroy with lace at the neck . |
| 20 | She had learnt that from her ma , but she had never understood until recently . |
| 21 | It might have been true once — and she was glad now that she had never succumbed to Hugh 's importuning . |
| 22 | Adam 's face was mere inches from her own , his eyes hot with a fury she had never witnessed in him before . |
| 23 | Michael Lee was well used to Katherine 's preference for darkened rooms ; when had had first started work for her , he had done some research and discovered that when she had operated in Dublin , she had never appeared in public during the daylight hours and always met her business associates in darkened rooms , where she was known only as Madam Kitten . |
| 24 | She had gazed petulantly at a mantelpiece empty of deckle-edged cards , remembering the time when she had never wanted for an escort or a party . |
| 25 | A man she had never seen before or since came at night . |
| 26 | She could see its possibilities straight away , something she had never seen in those gloomy other chambers . |
| 27 | There was also , she vaguely noted , in one corner a piano , and the windows had shutters of a kind that she had never seen in England . |
| 28 | Yet there was something else there , too — something that she had never seen in him before — and it touched her deeply . |
| 29 | Exploding into a temper , the sort of temper she had never seen in him before . |
| 30 | I am convinced she had never lived in a house before , and had never had any real relationship with people . |