Example sentences of "who had never [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Doña Ximena and her daughters stood trembling , like women who had never seen such things before : and when the Cid saw it he made them seat themselves , so as no longer to behold it . |
| 2 | This was fantastic for a little boy who had never seen such a toy . |
| 3 | " Dr Dunstaple , please ! " protested the Magistrate , who was one of the few cantonment-dwellers who had never experienced any affection for Dr Dunstaple . |
| 4 | Briefly , over a 14 month period starting in May 1968 , 1400 general practitioners throughout the United Kingdom recruited 23000 women who were using oral contraceptives and a similar number of women who had never used these preparations . |
| 5 | Artemis , who had never sat such a prodigious leap on a horse , let alone one taken side-saddle , leaned well back and sat the jump well . |
| 6 | Thus , after a while , the one who had retrained his walk with great effort would have no more conscious access to his method of walking than one who had never had such an accident , or subsequent operation . |
| 7 | Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how , at any minute , any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold . |
| 8 | The magistrate said that though he acknowledged that Dad was a peaceful , law-abiding citizen who had never had any trouble with the police and who held strong religious beliefs , there were nevertheless times ‘ when people do get angry and tell lies . ’ |
| 9 | Money mattered : those who had never had any know the value . |
| 10 | There was a loud echo in the grounds of Wyvis Hall , Mary 's scream ringing back from off the wood and walls and starry waters , and Rufus , a town dweller who had never spent much time in the countryside , expected alarmed or annoyed people to arrive or the disconnected phone to start shrilling with complaints . |
| 11 | Maggie , who had never learned such useful arts from either of the women who had brought her up , had to be shown what was required , but soon the smooth rhythm of one woman winding and the other co-operating by swinging her hands in and out as the thread unwound , pleased and comforted her . |