Example sentences of "never [verb] anything [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | GMB union official Mary Kenny said today ‘ Management have been talking about measures like pay cuts but we never expected anything like this . |
| 2 | I 've never heard anything like this before in any court in the land . ’ |
| 3 | He had never felt anything like this — he was a lay figure , a lump of synthetic wax beside this man who had the humanity to cry . |
| 4 | Mr David Cummings , general manager , said : ‘ We have never done anything on this scale , but everyone has been fantastic and our suppliers have stood by us . ’ |
| 5 | Richard had never done anything like this , nor would he : even if he had been unfaithful to me — though as far as I knew , he never had — he would never humiliate me publicly . |
| 6 | ‘ Even though you 've never done anything like this before ? |
| 7 | She had never done anything like this before , but she was n't lacking in courage . |
| 8 | Hills cut him from 10-1 to 6-1 , prompting their representative , Don Payne , to comment : ‘ You expect big market moves before races like this , but I 've never seen anything on this scale . ’ |
| 9 | Graham 's never had anything like this to deal with when he 's been away before . |
| 10 | ‘ I have lived here for years , and I have never had anything like this happen in my home , ’ she said . |
| 11 | Such things happen in bad dreams , dreams of the recurring kind from which one awakens in panic and fear , though she had never dreamed anything like this . |
| 12 | Fry , who firmly believed his star player — brother of Wolves and England No 9 Steve — was Old Trafford-bound , said : ‘ I have never known anything like this before . |
| 13 | I 've never known anything like this before . ’ |
| 14 | I mean I know that people have been hit by the mortgage rise and of course in my lifetime I 've never known anything like this . |
| 15 | When , for example , establishment actor Raymond Massey saw James Dean in action for the first time on the set of East of Eden , emitting as he did a stream of sexual and genital adjectives , Massey stormed off the set declaring , ‘ I have never experienced anything like this in my entire life . |
| 16 | She 'd never experienced anything like this in her life before — she 'd never met a man who had made any real , lasting impression on her . |
| 17 | He added : ‘ I 've been in the shop when people have lifted something and run out , but I 've never experienced anything like this before . |
| 18 | They had never experienced anything like this before . |
| 19 | You must understand that I never meant anything like this to happen . |
| 20 | Daphne tended to phone her just after six , which meant missing fifteen or twenty minutes of the news , but Cecilia never said anything about this because she would far rather miss the news than hurt Daphne . |
| 21 | ‘ Cavell never said anything about this , ’ she protested tightly . |