Example sentences of "[verb] never [adv] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recommends the phrase ‘ care of the body ’ to be used in discussion with clients and continues to surprise us by telling us that in his experience of funeral-arranging he has never yet had anything but a positive response to , ‘ Would you like us to look after mother in our usual way , so that you will be assured of having an everlasting memory of her sleeping peacefully and at rest ? ’ |
| 2 | Having been waited on hand and foot for most of his life and had people jump whenever he called , he has never really had the opportunity to be anything else . |
| 3 | With the shamelessness of the truly selfish man who has never really had to consider another 's feelings he stopped the Archdeacon dead and , taking his fork from his fish , said , ‘ What about Gray ? ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd never really had a guitar hero before then . |
| 5 | However , I 've never yet had to use the ribber weights to make the machine knit , when using the main bed only , on any machine . |
| 6 | They 've never yet had to use it . |
| 7 | ‘ It is not that we do n't like banks , just , well , I 've never even had a personal overdraft . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ What functions ? ’ has been the response ; a spokesman for Camden , the borough with the largest number of Grade II listed buildings after Westminster , says , ‘ We 've never even had a conservation policy ? ’ |
| 9 | I might have lost him , but you 've never even had him . |
| 10 | But we 've never quite had to do that . |
| 11 | No , I 'm afraid I 've never really had what you could call a boyfriend , someone to come calling to take me out . |
| 12 | I 've never really had the good fortune to watch a fly 's last moments on Earth before , and my eyes are just glued to this small splodge of legs and wings which are interrupting the clean , shiny surface of the screen . |
| 13 | Now I 've used it elsewhere in the garden and I 've never really had any problem with it except it is inclined to make the water very alkaline because the chippings that are quite often used on a flat roof and they 've got a very high P H and therefore you 've got to be aware that the water that comes off is not likely to be soft it 's more likely to be fair fairly hard but for reasonably tough plants I do n't think I would waste it , especially in times of water shortage . |
| 14 | Yeah I mean we did insert actually in the Chairman 's statement a cautionary note about the credit announcement because two years ago we had a similar increase which in fact by the time we got to the end of the year had disappeared so we view it with a lot of caution is the answer if you ask me to be more precise I ca n't because we 've never really had a set of tax increases the like of which we face now any other questions ? |
| 15 | What it does and I think we 're also dealing with a with a with a , people like right and is probably arguably worse right who 've never really had any sort of responsibility before and they not quite sure where the lines are drawn . |
| 16 | They 've never ever had those . |
| 17 | I 've never ever had one ever . |
| 18 | Her work and studies had been so all-consuming that she had never even had a boyfriend ! |
| 19 | A further disincentive — although Mr Lawrence did not see it that way — was that the Prudential had never previously had a finance director , let alone strict internal financial controls . |
| 20 | It had never yet had as its leader someone who represented one of the more extreme parties in the Church — never at least since the days of Archbishop Laud which ended in the archbishop 's head being cut off . |
| 21 | The present superintendent estimated at this time that about half of all girls coming there had never really had any home life , or had been in care , and believed that this cycle would repeat itself : " as high as 85 per cent of these babies , it 's going to happen to them . |
| 22 | The rebels captured the headquarters of Iraq 's 1st and 5th Army Corps — getting hold of heavy armour they had never before had . |
| 23 | Clara , as she ran for the Métro , was full of the greatest joy of her life , for she felt herself to be , at last , living ; the thick complexity of what had happened satisfied something in her that had never before had satisfaction . |
| 24 | He 's never even had a parish . |
| 25 | It might be different if she had children of her own — but she 's never even had a boyfriend I 've liked . ’ |
| 26 | Secondly , we have ‘ unnatural ’ recordings , in which original sounds ( or in some cases electrical waveforms which have never even had a separate acoustic existence ) are subject to processes which make them into something new . |
| 27 | I would hasten to say that I have never yet had the misfortune to operate anywhere which possessed all these undesirable features , but every one of us has seen some of them , or combinations of them in different circumstances , and everyone knows , from their own personal experience , how demotivating these characteristics are . |
| 28 | We want ten and fifteen people stood there in the street , you want their T-shirts on because I have never yet had one person say to me , I wo n't sign it because I think they should shut . |
| 29 | Finally , there have been some striking public successes , notably in the highly effective campaigns to defend the political levy , which have even produced ballot results in favour of political funds in unions like the Hosiery and Knitwear Workers or the Inland Revenue Staffs Federation which have never previously had them . |
| 30 | " We have never before had the honour to carry such an important representative of the United States of America to Saigon . " |