Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] never " in BNC.
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| 31 | This was n't the India I knew : during five previous visits I had never seen women kiss each other . |
| 32 | Now up to that moment I had never heard of John Searby , one of Gibson 's flight commanders , and he did not appear on " Cocky's ' list . |
| 33 | It is one place I have never worked at . ’ |
| 34 | He also clearly makes a point I had never considered before : that Bosola , the eternal outsider and masterless man , is not simply some rogue assassin but the author 's moral spokesman . |
| 35 | My father died erm sixteen years ago and I was put on to tranquillizers , up until that point I had never needed a drug in my life , and I was put onto tranquillizers and I had a terrible experience ! |
| 36 | In Jamaica I had never seen a white person ; to us youngsters they were an unknown quantity . |
| 37 | You know his mouth all went crinkly crrkkkk I 've never seen a jaw |
| 38 | To tell you the truth I 've never heard of it |
| 39 | I 'm admitting that through writing this article , the article I vowed never to write , I have missed a couple of nappy changes , and I feel so guilty about that . |
| 40 | Although I was doing Shakespeare for A-level I had never seen any of his plays performed on stage . |
| 41 | As Cynthia says : ‘ We found Dave entertaining children at Chessington World of Adventures , and in 25 years I had never met anyone who got on more naturally with children . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ In 15 years I 've never been injured . |
| 43 | Sister Catherine , of Our Lady of Passion monastery , Northants , on the order to slaughter the nuns ' salmonella-infected chickens I have never regarded the term ‘ do-gooder ’ as a criticism . |
| 44 | And as she opened her legs I was flooded by thoughts and feelings I 'd never had before . |
| 45 | Man , to this day I 've never been so sick . ’ |
| 46 | Strange , to this day I have never met a priest who was n't afraid to die . |
| 47 | To this day I have never seen him react so quickly . |
| 48 | To this day I have never read Stevenson 's text . |
| 49 | Since that day I have never spent much time at the green table and , once I got out into the world of journalism , worked hard at it . |
| 50 | He has made me look at the world again , made me see things I had never seen before , and see familiar things in a new light . |
| 51 | ‘ I feel as if I 'm experiencing things I 've never felt before , very strong , potent , overwhelming things . ’ |
| 52 | I 'm usually perfectly rational , yet suddenly I seem to be doing things I 've never done before . ’ |
| 53 | So I told him things I 'd never told anyone — how much I resented Dad for what he 'd done to Mum , and how Mum had suffered , how painful the whole thing had been , though I was only now beginning to feel it . |
| 54 | And with other things I have never meddled in . ’ |
| 55 | the stuff I have never seen so much stuff . |
| 56 | But until last Saturday night I had never seen how a major accident ward looked directly after a major accident . |
| 57 | But as I walked across the jarred and cratered road and sensed the usual quickenings of irony and aggression I also sensed something further — I sensed that my weight , my mass , my meat was being appraised , registered , scaled , not with lust , no , but with a carnal speculation I had never felt before . |
| 58 | For instance , Jim Pugh , our keyboard player , wrote three songs on the album , two with our producer Dennis Walker , and one with a friend I 'd never met before . |
| 59 | Ever since that event I have never taken a trolley off anyone , and have explained why if needed to and told as many people as possible about it . |
| 60 | AN OUNCE of luck is always welcome in racing and I have to admit that I feel the most fortunate man around this morning having been asked to ride Docklands Express in the Grand National — a race I have never won . |