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

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1 A tall lady in dark blue velvet , with a string of agates round her neck and a golden diadem in her hair ; a lady Isabella had never seen before in her year at the court of Gwynedd .
2 His deep voice held an intensity of feeling that Isabel had never imagined even in her most private dreams .
3 Her soft blue eyes hardened as they had never done before in her life and she met his gaze head-on .
4 The senator had a son and daughter of his own and , though he had never talked specifically of their problems , I sensed that in my life he was seeking an answer to his own family 's complexities .
5 But Rufus admitted to himself that the beauties of nature and architecture had never meant much to him .
6 In her family , the men had never walked out on their colonial responsibilities .
7 Kiku had never behaved humbly in her life .
8 It had never hurt before in anything but high jump but this time it hurt long jumping .
9 She knew why he was doing this and she knew too that this was an intimacy she had never permitted before in her life .
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