Example sentences of "[pron] have never [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The party was held at his flat which was a loft in a warehouse down by the river in Shad Thames on a wharf right next to Tower Bridge I 'd never seen anywhere like it .
2 The mix of own compositions and covers worked well , bringing to my attention songs I 'd never heard before from the likes of Dick Gaughan and Steve Earle .
3 Erm , I had n't actually felt that violent , I 'd been having extremes of emotion all week erm , very high , very low , very very fearful , panic attacks which I 'd never had before in my life .
4 Which would have been doubly misleading for I had never felt more in search of company , nor indeed more indebted to Manhattan , the city without him being a great deal more like the city we had lived in together than anywhere else without him would have been .
5 Nothing that I later ate in a restaurant was as good as our dinner , the finale being a ‘ tender coconut ’ pudding , a dish I had never eaten anywhere in the tropics .
6 Verona was far away and I had never lived away from home ; besides , I was not sure that my parents had ever contemplated the possibility that I might do so .
7 I felt a little ashamed that I had never cared enough for any of my father 's relatives to give even a thought to their reactions to the prospect of an irregular addition to the family .
8 I had never knelt down in front of anyone .
9 I 've never fallen out of love with him , not when he went home , not when we were in the courts , not now after three years .
10 ‘ But I am allowed to say I was deeply disappointed , because he let things go on which I 've never seen before in my time back in England .
11 There were a couple of things that I 've never seen anywhere since , relics of Victorian engineering .
12 I 've never seen anywhere like it in my life ! ’
13 Thorstvedt said : ‘ I 've never played better for the club . ’
14 I 've never gone along with that theory .
15 I 'm ever so disappointed that I 've not been to Yugoslavia , I wanted to go to Dubrovnik , you know , it 's been on the sort of list but I 've never got round to it .
16 I 've never bothered much about Blanche 's Prowler and that sort of thing — it did n't seem to matter who it was , only that she thought something existed — but you 've stirred something up — ’
17 ‘ Honestly , I was very interested ; I 've never thought much about the Roman invasion , but you bring it to life . ’
18 I 've never looked right through it .
19 I 've never looked forward to new stuff from any band as much as I do from the Mondays .
20 Not the police — I 've never looked up to them .
21 ‘ At one point I thought about stopping , ’ Rasmussen said , ‘ but that would have been a first for me , because I 've never dropped out of a marathon . ’
22 I have never cared much for men who are all man : they are the ones who smugly believe they must be irresistible to me , and take elaborately cautious steps to protect their priceless male virginity from what they seem to imagine will be my marauding hands .
23 I have never banged away with fifteen strangers in a back street in Ashton before .
24 The other vineyards were all wiped out in the phylloxera epidemic of the last century and never replanted ; but lonely though it is on the local wine lists , Irouléguy will do nicely ; I have never got much beyond the stage of dividing wines into nice and nasty when it comes to describing them , so all I shall say is that Irouléguy is nice .
25 Talking in Leicester this week and last week to groups of black women , some black women are saying I have never thought before about being able to talk about what I am and making up my own mind .
26 I have done the route a dozen or more times since that distant autumn , and although I know it is ‘ easy ’ I have never set off across that huge ceiling without a feeling of apprehension .
27 I have never busked before in my life .
28 They were grand folk , and it 's because of them that I am not one of the antismoking lobby ( although I have never associated personally with nicotine ) .
29 Their Victorian furniture , which had never looked right in the pre-war semi , was very much at home in their new house — they just needed more of it .
30 ‘ Diana is an Uptown girl who has never gone in for downtown men , ’ observes Rory Scott .
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