Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some owners of OTC-traded warrants claimed that they had never received anything written about exercising them at all . |
| 2 | I 've never stopped myself talking to her about anything before , she thought . |
| 3 | Jane had never heard him speak with such enthusiasm about anybody before . |
| 4 | Ruth had never heard him speak with any seriousness before , had hardly seen him without a smile on his face . |
| 5 | ‘ I have never heard him speak of politics . ’ |
| 6 | She had never heard him scream like it , the dreadful sound echoed back from the sides of the skip and his fists were hard as little rocks . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've never heard me complain about Annette 's cooking . ’ |
| 8 | The children had never heard her speak to him sharply before . |
| 9 | I 'd never heard her speak like this before . |
| 10 | I 've never heard you swear in my life . |
| 11 | For , despite acquiring a mass of archival material stretching over a very long period of time , the Chinese never developed anything corresponding to the modern Western concept of history . |
| 12 | ‘ I have never let myself go like that , ’ Alida said , ‘ never . |
| 13 | Rhoda had to give up work , and no sickness benefit was available since Ken had never let her succumb to the system and pay national insurance . |
| 14 | He could smell in imagination what Liz had never let him know in actuality — the smell of sour milk and dirty nappies , could picture the dreadful lack of peace and privacy . |
| 15 | I do n't know Miguelito — I 've never met him to speak to . ’ |
| 16 | I 'd never felt he cared for me but at last we sat and talked . |
| 17 | I 've never seen them walk round the flats , I 've seen the odd one or two with the security guards , |
| 18 | He has two or three bidets in his house in Beverly Hills , but he has never seen them used in this way , with gusto . |
| 19 | " I 've never seen him speak to anyone . |
| 20 | She had never seen him engaged in such mundane activity , and yet he did not seem to –ind her presence an embarrassment . |
| 21 | Len was different ; she had never seen him look at another girl like that . |
| 22 | I asked him once why I 'd never seen him mentioned in any of the endless stuff about his movement , and he said he thought some of them had to stay anonymous . |
| 23 | At first she did not notice him standing there near her cage in the darkening gloom but when she did she did something he had never seen her do in all the years he had watched her . |
| 24 | He 'd never seen her look like that before , and when he thought of why she looked like that he wanted to throttle her . |
| 25 | If you thought chess was a slow , perhaps even dull game , then you 've never seen it played like this . |
| 26 | You know : the things youngsters stick on their cars to make 'em look like racers — but I 've never seen it done to a clapped-out old van before . ’ |
| 27 | I have never seen anyone eaten by crocodiles . |
| 28 | I have never seen anyone drown in a lake of boiling marmalade and … |
| 29 | I have never seen anyone flattened by a runaway horse and cart . |
| 30 | He had never had someone say to him , at half past eleven in the morning , let's go back to bed now . |