Example sentences of "[verb] never have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many former refugee children report never having seen a Bloomsbury House representative . |
| 2 | Of 70 injectors interviewed in depth , only 25% reported never having shared syringes ; 57% reporting reusing syringes in the previous six months , using a range of cleaning agents including household bleach . |
| 3 | Nineteen of the 25 children were reported never to have established a regular sleep pattern , and 22 were classified as having severe sleep problems . |
| 4 | Educational dogmatists who insist that middle-class values ( and hence , speech ) must not be foisted on working-class children ; a society which has never had any real commitment to the idea of education as a key to social mobility ; guilt-ridden liberal sentimentality about working-class cultural identity . |
| 5 | She has never had to compete with private collectors for company archives and hopes she never has to . |
| 6 | After all , at a time when the British musical was despised , he did write , direct and star in several notable exceptions to the rule — a sort of Kenneth Branagh of the early Sixties , except that Branagh 's yet to take Broadway , does n't compose music , and has never had a No 1 record . |
| 7 | Laing has never had any problems about getting to grips with long-term strategy . |
| 8 | She has never had to advertise any of her products because ‘ the shops and the product are the best advertisement ’ . |
| 9 | Remarkably , Mr McGovern has never had to sell equity in his firm to outside investors , though he has given away nearly 30% to motivate employees . |
| 10 | Corduroy has never had much cachet , despite the derivation of its name — corde du roi , the king 's cord . |
| 11 | ‘ The art world has never had to deal with that populist level , ’ he continues — we 've obviously broached one of his favourite topics . |
| 12 | The American Left has never had a solid basis . |
| 13 | The consequence is that Britain has never had truly free broadcasting . |
| 14 | Britain has been denied this freedom because it has never had a truly commercial broadcasting environment . |
| 15 | She has never had a period ; at eleven she was diagnosed as anorexic and hospitalised for ten weeks . |
| 16 | The boy who began to convert souls while our future rectors and curates were deep in criticism , history and examination subjects , and who has never had time to go to school or university since , is not impeccable in taste . |
| 17 | ON WEDNESDAY , Christies ' two star lots are Canaletto 's view of the Old Horse Guards , wonderfully fresh and the most significant of the artist 's London paintings , while Rembrandt 's jewel-like Daniel and Cyrus before the Idol of Bel has never had the slightest sniff from the Rembrandt Research Project , which has whittled 1,000 ‘ Rembrandt 's ’ down to 300 and whittles on remorselessly . |
| 18 | One argument states that the Latin American bourgeoisie has never had sufficient capital to promote the economic development it wanted and has , therefore , had to import capital . |
| 19 | If she has never had the smallpox to sign a paper to leave the service if she has them . ’ |
| 20 | Robyn has only the dimmest memories of the country of her birth , and has never had the opportunity to refresh or renew them , Professor Penrose 's characteristic response to any suggestion that the family should revisit Australia being a shudder . |
| 21 | For a dog who has never had a collar , a check chain can be quite frightening . |
| 22 | An initial period of identification is important to a repressed group that has never had adequate self-images . |
| 23 | ‘ The difference between Manchester and Liverpool groups is that Liverpool has never had a university tradition . ’ |
| 24 | It has never had any papers circulated to it and never met . |
| 25 | This is now part of the Roman Catholic rite , which has never had problems of rampant tuberculosis because of the cup . |
| 26 | Scotland has never had much time for earthquakes : the national football team already has a monopoly on disasters . |
| 27 | Potter says this approach has been satisfactory , although he would not say how many times the company had used it , but Psion has never had to take a case to court . |
| 28 | Bishop Jim Thompson , in Half Way , comments : ‘ The homosexual who has never had a physical relationship , because of religious conviction , or fear , or lack of opportunity , can be subject to the same panic in midlife as the heterosexual spinster or bachelor . |
| 29 | The young nobleman , Gontran de Boismassif , has just married his equally youthful cousin , but is suddenly acutely conscious that he has never had the facts of life explained to him , and neither his bride nor his tutor ( likewise innocent ) are of any assistance . |
| 30 | Since 1980 the Theatre Collection has mounted an exhibition every year , but to many people 's surprise and regret , it has never had a permanent display area of its own . |