Example sentences of "i had never " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faussone talks about ‘ the way we bent our elbows ’ — an expression ( for eating or drinking ) which I have heard spoken in English , but which I had never before seen written down in a book . |
| 2 | A feeling , wrote Harsnet , such as I have never experienced before , not so much of wishing I had never been born , as never been born as me . |
| 3 | I want it to be as though I had never been . |
| 4 | I want it to be as though I had never taken that turning . |
| 5 | As though I had never been . |
| 6 | As I had never actually made a cold application for a job before , I did n't really know what to make of this . |
| 7 | He rubs it absently , accosting strangers in the street , seeking out a friend and within minutes exclaiming that he wants to be by himself , watching children wistfully , accusing wellwishers of persecuting him with their kindness ; until at last he explodes on the brink of confession in a terrible universal cry : ‘ Oh , if only I were alone and nobody loved me , and if only I had never loved anyone ! ’ |
| 8 | Asked if any tribes he admires would allow the kind of eccentricity the English tribe had allowed him , he said ‘ I had never thought of that ’ . |
| 9 | I had never been a prime minister before . |
| 10 | I had never heard of it before , but it was certainly something that I would look out for in the future with much apprehension . |
| 11 | Before that I had never known that human beings could do such things to others , but after that I knew . |
| 12 | I had never seen water that was that blue . |
| 13 | I had never been on a glacier before . |
| 14 | I had never been walking with flags before . |
| 15 | After all I had never been here before , there was no means of knowing . |
| 16 | I had never worn that thing before . |
| 17 | You know the Burkha , at first I could n't wear it , I had never worn it before . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Karl Kraus ‘ whom I venerated more than anyone else in the world , without whose wrath and zeal I would n't have cared to live , whom I had never dared to approach . ’ |
| 20 | I had never seen anything like it ; it felt slightly illegal . |
| 21 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 22 | I had never known a woman by that name . |
| 23 | I said that I had never heard anything more extraordinary . |
| 24 | You see , unlike you who has lived in so many places and seen so much , I had never lived anywhere except at my parents ’ home . |
| 25 | It was something I had never admitted to myself . |
| 26 | Now he was starting to cry , and I had never seen him cry before . |
| 27 | I was silent , for I could not understand in what way he meant that my hands were ugly : I had never considered whether they were beautiful or not . |
| 28 | I had never seen them before ; relatives summoned from the north of the country , perhaps . |
| 29 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 30 | ‘ The thing I remember about my first visit is that I had never sung so much before . |