Example sentences of "something [pron] [vb past] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was something I had never admitted to myself . |
| 2 | I remember trying to help one of the sisters dress a badly wounded back — something I had never thought I could do . |
| 3 | I ran after the car waving my fist and hurling abuse and insults , something I had never done before . |
| 4 | It was something I had never done before and never would again , and it gave me great satisfaction . |
| 5 | You came into my life bringing something I had never known before . |
| 6 | Bungee Jumping was something I had never given much thought to , never mind considered actually doing myself . |
| 7 | It was Irene , for instance , who pointed out something I 'd never been able to put my finger on : that Tod ca n't talk and smile at the same time . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ It was something I 'd never given any thought to , but it was nice to be asked , and when the Ulster Branch were happy to accept my nomination I was delighted to take up the offer . |
| 9 | With Shakespeare almost every time that I read more than forty lines , I see something I 'd never seen before , which is demonstrably there . |
| 10 | With Shakespeare , almost every time I read more than forty lines , I see something I 'd never seen before , which is demonstrably there . |
| 11 | Bernini is evidently attempting to render something quite transcendental and something which had never been attempted by a sculptor before that date . |
| 12 | No no that was , that was erm a com a completely er something which had never happened before |
| 13 | She could see its possibilities straight away , something she had never seen in those gloomy other chambers . |
| 14 | Once for something she had never found out about . |
| 15 | This was something she had never even heard of , so we spent quite a long time discussing hypnosis , regression and how the techniques could be applied to her situation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She would go off alone for long walks over the cliffs — something she had never done before in winter . |
| 18 | In desperation , she secretly telephoned Louise , something she had never done before . |
| 19 | Every time she shouted at him or reacted to something he had said , it seemed to reveal something she had never meant to let him see . |
| 20 | Not while Julius 's hands moved over her with quickening need , his skin burned steadily against hers , and his voice murmured in her ear , the words unintelligible but his tone telling her something she had never expected to hear again . |
| 21 | It was something she had never felt before . |
| 22 | It was feeling a deep ache of loss for something she had never had in the first place . |
| 23 | It was something she had never anticipated , a circumstance which filled her with alarm . |
| 24 | So serene , in fact , that after we 'd had a meal at the bungalow and a few drinks my mother did something she 'd never done before . |
| 25 | She bought a pine table from a junk shop and slowly sandpapered it down in the garden , and then sealed it , something she 'd never done before , never even thought of doing before . |
| 26 | She knew about anal sex , but it was something she 'd never been asked to do . |
| 27 | It was something she 'd never done before , or dreamt of doing . |
| 28 | She 'd fought the sensation as long as she could and then she 'd done something she 'd never done before , she 'd deliberately looked into the sea of faces , looked unerringly to the rear of the crowded room … |
| 29 | ‘ They 'd tell us stories about the Cuban Revolution and we 'd sit round getting drunk and nostalgic about something we had never been in . ’ |
| 30 | And they were b doing quite happily and quite merrily with all the bits and pieces they had to pack until they came to something they 'd never packed before . |