Example sentences of "it [vb past] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a completely unique event as far as we were concerned it 'd never happened before and hopefully it 'll never happen again . |
| 2 | Maybe it had never stopped , Maggie was n't at all sure . |
| 3 | Hydroelectric schemes and dams , sometimes ill-conceived and subsequently damaging to the environment ; roads and cultivation ; forest clearance , often to make a quick profit : all these and many more ‘ improvements ’ drove the elephant into areas where it had never lived before . |
| 4 | Thus , a young baby made the subject of an emergency order shortly after birth took the residence of its foster mother and not its natural mother with whom it had never lived . |
| 5 | The company said it had never confirmed the lower figure . |
| 6 | United Motors had already built a component plant in Dublin a few years before , at the specific request of the Chairman , but it had never operated profitably . |
| 7 | It had been repainted since the war , but , as far as she knew , it had never given forth music . |
| 8 | Except that on this day , while it hunted for flies , one frog lost its way and crawled around the side of one of the outermost petals , or possibly leaves , and saw something it had never seen before . |
| 9 | And at the foot of the iron structure was a high steel fender , suggesting from its dull surface that it had never seen emery paper since the day it left the foundry . |
| 10 | She was a strange , skinny woman always dressed in dark clothes , and her face looked as if it had never seen the sun . |
| 11 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |
| 12 | But if the child is never born alive , things will remain as if it had never existed . |
| 13 | The effect of a decree of nullity , broadly speaking , is that the marriage is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 14 | For Jane , that slice of life evaporated as if it had never existed . |
| 15 | But after the settlement of the dispute Danzig-Polish co-operation lapsed as if it had never existed . |
| 16 | Somehow his mother could shut out the unpleasant from her mind as if it had never existed and she had shut out the Worm as successfully as she had shut out everything else . |
| 17 | The first is where it is set aside , in which case it is treated as if it had never existed . |
| 18 | The stonework covered it completely , as if it had never existed . |
| 19 | With the evidence destroyed , there was some hope of pretending it had never existed . |
| 20 | Or perhaps it had never existed . |
| 21 | His face was smooth , almost feminine ; it looked as if it had never felt the touch of a razor . |
| 22 | It had never felt any hurt before . |
| 23 | The reporter , Mick Brown , followed this story with exemplary tact , or , put it another way , as if it had never struck him that he was talking to loonies . |
| 24 | I realized , in a way in which it had never struck me before , what a need there was for Black people ( naturally ) to see themselves as in the image of their God , and their God as in their image . |
| 25 | But it had never struck me that it was something he would notice . |
| 26 | In this way the Union successfully mobilized the population to take control in a way it had never done before , and to identify and overcome both health and social problems which had not previously been tackled . |
| 27 | It had never wavered . |
| 28 | They also agreed that the Scandinavian army would be given tribute , and it at last occupied London , thus gaining in peace what it had never gained in war . |
| 29 | Or could a third party claim that it had never indicated dissent and only now wished to exercise the right ? |
| 30 | It had never crossed my mind that Sunderland would be prepared to part with me so easily . ’ |