Example sentences of "having never [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having drank in that pub for eight years and having never caused any trouble in that time , I am disgusted by the fact that there is a general ban on customers with a pierced nose . |
| 2 | One of Acheson 's biographers has argued that Americans , having never understood the realities of the Chinese situation , were wholly unprepared for the deluge of hate and vituperation which descended on them from Peking once the Chinese People 's Republic had been established . |
| 3 | Having never seen a swing bridge before I wondered how the boats were going to get under it but I was soon to find out . |
| 4 | Having never seen brown coal before , she presumed the house owner would shovel the load down to his cellar when convenient . |
| 5 | Having never given a tinker 's cuss about The Pogues , I do n't share in the general mayhem that greets Shane MacGowan 's stumble-on for a mumble through a sickly ‘ Wonderful World ’ . |
| 6 | Having never visited America , the Ashleys had scant grasp of the cultural differences or geographical distances involved ; in the UK no two stores were more than 350 miles apart . |
| 7 | Having never settled into any kind of worthwhile career before the war , now , in keeping with many other ex-officers , he found he was virtually unemployable . |
| 8 | Having never had to face a situation of wholesale redundancies in the past , ICI 's policies for dealing with them were out of date and inadequate . |
| 9 | I did n't want to grow old having never had any excitement in my life . |
| 10 | Having never fought an election before , Mr Keen has the sort of 100pc record any football manager would envy : played one , won one . |
| 11 | I asked her if she did not feel deprived , having never experienced school life . |
| 12 | But Wordsworth , ‘ having never read a word of German metaphysics , thank Heaven ’ , travelled towards religious belief on a lonelier road , like Christian in the Valley of the Shadow of Death . |
| 13 | Black chat Having never read your magazine until FACE 49 , I was pleasantly surprised at how many features were about black people . |
| 14 | as if I had n't got enough on my plate with Tim throwing a mid-life crisis and Phil doing the disturbed adolescent bit-now if you please Suzanne comes in at three-thirty in the morning , and me lying there sick with worry , she having never thought to phone , and London with rapists on every street corner or so one 's told . |
| 15 | The expedition returned only two weeks after it had left , having never got to see Macquairie , the south coast , or the promising territory around Port Davy . |