Example sentences of "[vb past] never [vb pp] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents . |
| 2 | He 'd been right when he 'd said she was shrewish , though she 'd never suffered from the malady before . |
| 3 | Edmund Sparkler born there during a ‘ mighty frost ’ in which , his companions say , ‘ his brain had been frozen up … and had never thawed from that hour ’ . |
| 4 | She had a steady boyfriend who had never suffered from herpes himself , and , after a difficult first year following her primary attack , she had gradually improved until she finally went nine months without any trouble . |
| 5 | The responses could be analysed for differences in opinion depending on the time since the respondent had suffered from the illness or between those who had ever and those who had never suffered from the illness in question . |
| 6 | She had never suffered from claustrophobia , but right now she could imagine just how its victims felt . |
| 7 | Mrs Watson had never suffered from depression before and a pathologist confirmed she had no signs of natural disease . |
| 8 | He pushed on quickly with words in order to forget that tone he had never heard from her before . |
| 9 | ‘ I wish you 'd take me with you , ’ said Aelis from under the shadow of her tangled golden hair , in a tone he had never heard from her before . |
| 10 | In point of fact , in terms of Catholic tradition , the challenges here might be less awkward than those of phase 2 ( and to some extent John Paul II was able to recognize this ) , but the crucial ecclesiastical issue once more ( as in phase 1 ) had become the acceptability of diversity , and the curial mind had never escaped from the conviction that unity requires uniformity . |
| 11 | A different kind of style , and a different kind of rhetoric , is employed in passages where Dickens wants to move us with compassion : notably in Paul 's death scene , where he can afford to use simple syntax and vocabulary ( expressing the simple images of the child 's mind ) in the assurance that understatement will merely intensify the reader 's sympathy : [ 4 ] Paul had never risen from his little bed ( 1 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ She blamed Freddie and me for what went wrong but within two weeks she 'd died herself ; she had never recovered from the birth . ’ |
| 13 | The Norfolk worsted manufacture , unique in having spread from Norwich to an arable farming district , had always remained dispersed in small units without great clothiers and had never recovered from its recession in the previous century . |