Example sentences of "i [verb] never known [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never known him believe in anything before , so it was an amazing novelty to find him literally staking his life on the principle of absolute patriarchal authority . |
| 2 | Round about four o'clock he did a thing I 'd never known him do since I got there — he started to play his guitar . |
| 3 | She seldom sounded Yorkshire and I had never known her to make a joke . |
| 4 | ( 109 ) I had never known him ask a favour of this kind before . |
| 5 | There are numerous examples of the operative sense construed with to in British English as well : ( 112 ) I had never known him to pass the garden-gate before . |
| 6 | I was spellbound : I had never known anybody who had been to such a faraway country . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've never known what they were up to . |
| 8 | It 's a matter for the emperor , of course , but I 've never known him refuse a name so recommended . ’ |
| 9 | I 've never known him in such a huff . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've never known him do anything vicious , though in drink he sometimes talks big . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've never known him come here until today . ’ |
| 12 | I 've never known him go for the skinny boyish type before . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But I 've never known him closer than a mile to a pick-up . |
| 14 | Know can also be found in the operative sense followed by the to infinitive : ( 110 ) I 've never known him to lie to me . |
| 15 | I 've never known him to fail . |
| 16 | Apart from the fact that I 've never known her dig up a weed or pick a single daffodil , she simply is n't cut out for that kind of work . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 've never known her so obstinate . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've never known myself like this . |
| 19 | I 've never known them change their minds before . |
| 20 | Well I 've never known them do that before have you ? |
| 21 | The outside is the estate agents and I 've never known anybody give that up . |
| 22 | Oh I 've never known anybody like her , er I think it 's an |
| 23 | I 've never known anything like this before . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 've never known anything like it , ’ said Bassett , relieved that Alan Kelly has recovered from a thigh problem in time to face Southampton tomorrow . |
| 25 | He said : ‘ I 've never known anything like it in 15 years at sea . ’ |
| 26 | ROS : I 've never known anything like it ! |
| 27 | I 've never known anything quite like it . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've never known anything like it : over two hundred interviews with people who were in the street , mostly in the pubs , at some time between nine and eleven on the night and nobody saw or heard a damn thing . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I know I think we 've actually shot ourselves in the foot here because I 've never known anything like it . |