Example sentences of "[conj] i had never [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 2 | and I had never felt it anywhere else and I 've never felt it since ! |
| 3 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
| 4 | Now he was starting to cry , and I had never seen him cry before . |
| 5 | She seldom sounded Yorkshire and I had never known her to make a joke . |
| 6 | At that time they were unobtainable in Greece , and I had never used them before . |
| 7 | It was the first time that someone close to me had died , and I could not imagine life without my sister , even if I had never loved her , or even thought about her recently . |
| 8 | And the singing of birds I had heard a thousand times , thrushes , blackbirds in our London garden , I heard as if I had never heard them before . |
| 9 | ‘ I had heard of Genesis but I had never heard them . |
| 10 | I knew of the Knowlton Circles in Dorset but I had never seen them , although I had seen an air photograph . |
| 11 | I liked the experience because I had never done it . |
| 12 | The press were trying to build up a great rivalry between Ben and me , especially as I had never raced him . |
| 13 | If he 'd gone to the crematorium mortuary with Alan , there would have been a blank in my mind , as I had never seen it , and anyway it was thirty miles away . |
| 14 | Spellbound , I drove upwards into the bright splendour , staring through the windscreen as though I had never seen it all before ; the bronze of the dead bracken spilling down the grassy Banks of the hills , the dark smudges of trees , the grey farmhouses and the endless pattern of wails creeping to the heather above . |
| 15 | I had n't wanted him before he was born , and , though I had never neglected him physically , I had n't loved him in the way most mothers love their children . |