Example sentences of "had never " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernini is evidently attempting to render something quite transcendental and something which had never been attempted by a sculptor before that date . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 4 | Even those who had never heard of him mouthed his words , repeating them to others as though they had just thought of them themselves , which perhaps they had , for there is surely such a thing as a spirit of the times . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I want it to be as though I had never been . |
| 7 | I want it to be as though I had never taken that turning . |
| 8 | As though I had never been . |
| 9 | But then , Mrs Feather had never needed anything to brighten up her baking — she was a superb cook . |
| 10 | To her credit , whatever other social solecisms the inexperienced Peggy might have committed during their stay in Little Tuckett , she had never betrayed a confidence . |
| 11 | Mr Yardley , according to his wife , had never set foot in the tent . |
| 12 | Logic had never been Wendy 's strong suit . |
| 13 | This undemanding life-cycle had never been disrupted and I read the new lecture list partly just out of habit and partly for the simple pleasure of seeing my name in print . |
| 14 | As I had never actually made a cold application for a job before , I did n't really know what to make of this . |
| 15 | He had never done one and always thought it a dangerous manoeuvre to execute . |
| 16 | Jay had never been promiscuous after the fuck'em and leave 'em college years , and now , after five years of no sex except occasional pleasant nights with ex-lovers , her newly spare body thrilled with anticipation . |
| 17 | And at sixteen she wished she had never been born . |
| 18 | Jay had never known it to work for more than weeks . |
| 19 | Were they ever professional , boy , did they ever work hard , well , did n't they just talk and work as if that melodrama of near separation had never happened . |
| 20 | Lucy paced , rampaged , flung out scads of unrequited ire , impassioned as Jay had never seen her . |
| 21 | She told her how beautiful they were , how there had never been such a blue . |
| 22 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 23 | No , he had never ‘ flouted ’ it ; on the contrary , he had repeatedly counselled meeting in forty-nines at the most . |
| 24 | How to exact this ‘ favour ’ , that was what had never been thrashed out ( except for some loose talk of getting weapons from castle armouries ) . |
| 25 | Harold MacMillan , Prime Minister , might still be saying to the electorate that they had never had it so good — which was true in terms of the change-round from post-war reconstruction , wartime destruction , and the days of depression ; but to someone of Leonard 's background , from Canada , the place was a bore . |
| 26 | This pattern had never been noticed before , but as soon as researchers started looking for it , several case studies of what is now known as phonological dyslexia were reported in rapid succession in the early 1980s . |
| 27 | Once he had said I showed him a concern which he had never met with before , even from his parents , and that he would love to visit my country one day . |
| 28 | I was neither aspiring poet nor actor and had never been further east than Brooklyn . |
| 29 | One was Max , the other was a bitch which had never been socialised . |
| 30 | ‘ Mere existence had never been enough for him ; he had always wanted something more . ’ |