He had never given me insult. For his gold I had no desire.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

He was lifted to the world he had never known or felt.

VOA: special.2010.05.08

He had never realized how much he loved his home!

VOA: special.2010.05.29

I loved the old man. He had never wronged me.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

He had never seen so many different kinds of plants.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

But he had never before held an elected office.

VOA: special.2010.04.29

He suggested that Western critics had never known real hunger, and wondered if they had ever watched their children go hungry.

VOA: special.2009.09.22

For years, he had always been planning to paint a work of art, but had never yet begun it.

VOA: special.2009.08.01

He said that never before had he spoken to a group as troubled and worried as the one he spoke to now.

VOA: special.2009.03.19

He says Islam has never become rooted in any land until that land had its own Islamic scholars.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

Paul had never been inside it, but he used to stand near the hotel's wide glass doors.

VOA: special.2009.04.04

President Obama says he never had any doubts that closing Guantanamo would be difficult and complex.

VOA: standard.2009.05.21

Alexander,who had never baked before, says he knew the only way to have this kind of bread again was to learn how to make it himself.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

"Even though I never had a chance to talk to him, I can imagine when he was here how he had to stay focused against all the odds.

VOA: standard.2009.08.19

Because of that, over time he realized that we were abusing the ocean, but people up there didn't know that because they had never seen what was underwater."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

He'd never do this to someonewho had another choice.

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