Example sentences of "but she 'd never [vb pp] " in BNC.

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1 It was a perfectly appropriate action , but she 'd never seen anyone do it before as a gesture of relief after social effort .
2 But she 'd never seen that someone .
3 At some stage during her crisis-strewn life Emily had gone to the University of Lancaster to study French but she 'd never completed her course .
4 She was a make-up artist , for goodness ' sake — she 'd seen any number of half-naked male actors in her time , but she 'd never reacted like this before .
5 But she 'd never enjoyed scenes — and something told her she would live to regret it mightily if she attempted to make a fool of this man .
6 She had had every opportunity to be , for heaven 's sake , but she 'd never worked hard enough at it and now she did not feel like struggling with a foreign language to search for an item when she did not even know what she was looking for .
7 His mother had shown him lots of things , photographs and even odds and ends she 'd had as a child , but she 'd never shown him her wedding-dress .
8 Her choice of career had surprised and confused the students competing against her for jobs , but she 'd never allowed the unspoken disapproval that had surrounded her to deter her from her goal .
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