Example sentences of "i had never [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had never believed in Swinging London in any way , and always felt it was a figment of Time magazine 's imagination . ’ |
| 2 | I had never believed in ghosts but what I had seen was unaccountable . |
| 3 | ‘ I had never believed that Ken was a homosexual . |
| 4 | My father had often urged me to try some of his marijuana , but I had never accepted , just as I had refused even to look at the cocaine that he kept in his dressing room . |
| 5 | In an effort to develop a unique sound I stumbled across the very first pattern which I discovered I had never played before . |
| 6 | I had seen hundreds , perhaps thousands , just like it , sticking out of the ground , but I had never stopped to look at them . |
| 7 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
| 8 | I had never seen water that was that blue . |
| 9 | I had never seen anything like it ; it felt slightly illegal . |
| 10 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
| 11 | Now he was starting to cry , and I had never seen him cry before . |
| 12 | I had never seen them before ; relatives summoned from the north of the country , perhaps . |
| 13 | He has made me look at the world again , made me see things I had never seen before , and see familiar things in a new light . |
| 14 | Although I was doing Shakespeare for A-level I had never seen any of his plays performed on stage . |
| 15 | I had never seen anything so fearsome and kept well back until he despatched the beast ; which seemed to take hours , and several hours later we were still trying to untangle Ian 's line . |
| 16 | Spray was spuming up wildly from my rails in a way I had never seen before . |
| 17 | In the next block a man I had never seen before rushed up to me with a jug . |
| 18 | I had never seen a bank nurse before and assumed she came from the Natwest . |
| 19 | I knew of the Knowlton Circles in Dorset but I had never seen them , although I had seen an air photograph . |
| 20 | In Jamaica I had never seen a white person ; to us youngsters they were an unknown quantity . |
| 21 | We lined up — I had never seen so many people in a stadium in my life — the gun went and I spent just over twenty embarrassing seconds in Tilli 's slipstream . |
| 22 | All I can say is that at the time everything fitted together perfectly into so glaringly obvious a pattern that I was amazed I had never seen it before . |
| 23 | ‘ I had never seen such a clean town . |
| 24 | I had never seen the church so effortlessly packed . |
| 25 | I felt that I had never seen anyone so old . |
| 26 | I had never seen Chamonix so quiet . |
| 27 | Some of them I had never seen before and some were there to satisfy their curiosity . |
| 28 | I had never seen such a mouthwatering display of food on our table . |
| 29 | If he 'd gone to the crematorium mortuary with Alan , there would have been a blank in my mind , as I had never seen it , and anyway it was thirty miles away . |
| 30 | This caused a needle to bend to an angle at which I had never seen a needle before ! |