Example sentences of "[verb] never have a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Coventry couple with two children : she has never had a paid job , he worked until recently in a Birmingham car factory where his last take-home pay was £65 . |
| 2 | The American Left has never had a solid basis . |
| 3 | Julian reached a far smaller audience than any of these later reformers and she has never had a decisive effect on the history of Christianity as they did , but she has acquired a considerable following in our own day . |
| 4 | FPB Chief Executive Stan Mendham said : ‘ The private business community has never had a legal format tailored to its needs . |
| 5 | ‘ Laura has never had a proper Christmas , ’ said 26-year-old Fran , back home in Eccles . |
| 6 | The British State has never had a formal foundation in the aftermath of revolution or war , or as the result of an act of will by an enlightened despot . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But the company , it seems , has never had a smooth run of it , spending the majority of its time pulling in venture capital . |
| 10 | You know I 'm , in some ways you know I 'm so glad I 've never had like well before you know it used to bother me that I 'd never had a long-term relationship and that |
| 11 | He 'd never had a serious illness since a bout of pneumonia in childhood , and he 'd never been less than whole . |
| 12 | He 'd never had a good word to say for them before , a bunch o' thieving magpies , he always said , living off the fat of the land while he had to pay taxes to keep 'em . |
| 13 | But I 've never had a psychical experience in my life . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I bet you 've never had a real boyfriend in your life , have you ? |
| 15 | ‘ I 've never had a good experience of a boss with a short upper lip , ’ said Fred . |
| 16 | It could be a car , like we 've just said , but then again , I 've never had a new car , it could be , are you with me . |
| 17 | Let's say , let's say , let's say that Graham , who 's a bigger hitter than me , and got more influence , and more influential client bank than me , his idea of a new car is a new X J S , a nice Jag , me , my dream car , I 've never had a new car , is a nice Lada soft-top coupe , with G T X heated rear window , Okay . |
| 18 | And he added : ‘ I 've never had a broken toe before but Ian Botham will tell me I 'm a big softie if I 'm not playing by the middle of next month . |
| 19 | I 've never had a lesbian relationship and I 've had lots of boyfriends . |
| 20 | We 've never had a big dog before , but we thought in these violent days it might protect us . ’ |
| 21 | In the whole time that the kids have been going away we 've never had a single problem over religion and the biggest boost is that they actually want to meet each other again after the holiday , ’ she explained . |
| 22 | Tohmatsu had never had a European accountant on secondment before , but the Scot , who sounds like a Japanese native speaker on the phone , slotted in effortlessly . |
| 23 | His nature had been over-mature and he had been focused so much on his career that he had never had a great deal of time for his family . |
| 24 | She had never had a real boyfriend before and so had no yardstick by which to compare Charles 's behaviour . |
| 25 | Early last week the Sun apologised for saying he had never had a real job , but in truth a four-year stint as a tutor organiser in industrial and trade unions at the Workers ' Educational Association 25 years ago does not exactly set him up for a glittering new career . |
| 26 | Miss Warburton said she had never had a sexual relationship with Green . |
| 27 | Although Posi had perceived the presence of the other ship she had never had a clear sight of it . |
| 28 | Delhi , in fact , despite its status as the Mughal capital and its vital importance as a great railway junction , had never had a distinguished station . |
| 29 | Open-air dancing under the floodlights , often in long mackintoshes and trilby hats , a fountain that fell from bucket to bucket like the omnipresent rain , a bewhiskered Emett railway , a tree-walk alongside a forty-foot Chinese dragon — people queued patiently to enjoy such simple pleasures whose lack of sophistication seemed very exciting to people , most of whom had never had a foreign holiday or seen café tables with coloured umbrellas or indeed any fresh paint for as long as they could remember . |
| 30 | Share salesmen , even after A-Day , have upraised their status in the eyes of clients by quotation of imaginary praise from other clients , e.g. " One of my clients is kind enough to say he 's never had a bad tip from me . " |