Example sentences of "had never [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like complaining that Emily Brontë had never travelled outside Yorkshire . |
| 2 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |
| 3 | Jaq felt profoundly glad that he had never studied in the school of Assassins . |
| 4 | I had never taught in a classroom before but , although daunting at first , it turned out to be education for me as well as the students . |
| 5 | I had never taught before but was pushed in at the deep end and had to learn to swim . |
| 6 | ‘ Write my memoirs ? ’ she said , and smiled , but such a smile as Erika had never seen on her grandmother 's face before : wry , mocking , and , shockingly , cynical . |
| 7 | He had gone on to a party at a rich woman 's house , he explained , and seen a display of drinks such as he had never seen on earth before . |
| 8 | That evening , as we walked through the village that Eric had never seen on our way to the orphanage , I felt proud and happy that he had come back . |
| 9 | Some of them I had never seen before and some were there to satisfy their curiosity . |
| 10 | I walked up to the bar , passing several people I had never seen before who were obviously volunteers . |
| 11 | A man she had never seen before or since came at night . |
| 12 | Bob , arriving at the office before Dyson one morning , found a man he had never seen before working at poor old Eddy 's desk . |
| 13 | He could think , with a brief twist of the old cynicism , that he had never seen inside Tara anyway and that he could not miss what he had never had . |
| 14 | She could see its possibilities straight away , something she had never seen in those gloomy other chambers . |
| 15 | ‘ Our problem was to convert audiences to accepting David in something they had never seen in him before , ’ said Mr Lawrence . |
| 16 | It made him difficult to fix , especially for eyes awash with brandy , the merest motion of his head breaking subtle waves against his bones , their spume draining back into his skin trailing colours Estabrook had never seen in flesh before . |
| 17 | There was also , she vaguely noted , in one corner a piano , and the windows had shutters of a kind that she had never seen in England . |
| 18 | Yet there was something else there , too — something that she had never seen in him before — and it touched her deeply . |
| 19 | The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life . |
| 20 | The effect was striking in its simplicity , its sobriety , while his face had a gentleness Li Yuan had never seen in it before . |
| 21 | Then I spotted them — superb orange orchids of a kind I had never seen in Danu . |
| 22 | Exploding into a temper , the sort of temper she had never seen in him before . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | Most of the police officers taking part had never appeared on TV before . |
| 25 | Michael Lee was well used to Katherine 's preference for darkened rooms ; when had had first started work for her , he had done some research and discovered that when she had operated in Dublin , she had never appeared in public during the daylight hours and always met her business associates in darkened rooms , where she was known only as Madam Kitten . |
| 26 | De Gaulle , who had never murmured about leaking taps or malodorous drains , remained somewhat out of favour with the group for the short time remaining . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She had never suffered from claustrophobia , but right now she could imagine just how its victims felt . |
| 30 | Mrs Watson had never suffered from depression before and a pathologist confirmed she had no signs of natural disease . |