Example sentences of "who [verb] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | of drivers who reported never speeding , 8% had been stopped by the police ; this rose to 62% for those drivers who admitted to speeding regularly . |
| 2 | Not ideal for a woman who has never been pregnant . |
| 3 | He is one of the few people I have ever met who has never been either inflated or deflated by personal possessions . |
| 4 | He is Joseph Zappala , a Florida property developer , who has never been to Spain and perhaps , more to the point , speaks no Spanish . |
| 5 | Mr Lawson , who has never found it easy to win the affection of the party conference , now faces the trickiest political test of his career in attempting to avert unseemly attacks on his competence from the Conservative grassroots . |
| 6 | Philosophical question : can you actually fill in for someone who has never done the job ? |
| 7 | McKenzie , who has never been in trouble before , was described by people who knew him as a pleasant individual . |
| 8 | Faldo , who has never won this championship , went into lunch one hole down against Frost who had a 66 to a 67 . |
| 9 | It could also be that Reilly , who has never knowingly sold himself short , is driving a hard bargain . |
| 10 | It could also be that Reilly , who has never knowingly sold himself short , is driving a hard bargain . |
| 11 | What his mate , who has never bothered much with politics , discovers about our police on the one hand and lawyers on the other , forces him to take over the activist role in this tough political thriller . |
| 12 | Whatever , Carmody is an unassailable optimist who has never been seen in anything other than sprayed-on black jeans , winkle-pickered Chelsea boots , leather jacket and cap . |
| 13 | It is just possible that you are one of those rare people who has never seriously tried to diet . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Next , the tenor , who was engaged as a stop-gap , is a church singer from Lodi who has never before acted on such a big stage , who has only taken the part of the primo tenore a couple of times , and who moreover was only engaged a week before the performance . |
| 16 | 1 small twentieth-century ornamental dinner plate with picture of Scarborough Beach ( this is optional , actually , but I always find it adds spice to a tour of a house if , when interest is flagging , you quietly get it out and prop it up on a table and then say innocently to an attendant : ‘ What 's the story behind that plate ? ’ and then wait to see what sort of explanation is invented by someone who has never seen it in his or her life before ) |
| 17 | For a dog who has never had a collar , a check chain can be quite frightening . |
| 18 | Emanuel Shinwell , who has never changed his mind on this issue , was clear in 1918 about the wrong-headedness of destroying the people 's grammar schools while leaving unscathed the privileged Public Schools : ‘ We were afraid to tackle the public schools to which the wealthy people send their sons , but at the same time are ready to throw overboard the grammar schools which are for many working-class boys the stepping-stone to the universities and a useful career . |
| 19 | The concept of these ‘ continental ’ Wendy Houses with little canvas porches , plastic see-through windows and PVC-checked curtains could only have been dreamed up by someone who has never been two degrees north of the equator . |
| 20 | The good news is that , once you have given up smoking and sufficient time has elapsed for the nicotine to clear your system , your memory and mental ability is likely to be just as good as that of someone who has never smoked . |
| 21 | The man she was with — and who has never been traced — is described as aged between 20 and 25 , with dark hair and a tanned complexion . |
| 22 | What can As You Like It possibly mean to someone who had never been in love , or Hamlet to someone who has never felt ‘ how weary , stale , flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world ’ . |
| 23 | He deserts her in Italy some years later , and she finds her way back to London where she is reunited with her uncle , who has never ceased to search for her . |
| 24 | I feel for him , for he is a man who has never lived the life of a man , but only that of an overgrown schoolboy . |
| 25 | To a publisher or bookseller working hard to make a living in a very chancy occupation time spent answering questions from a researcher who has never himself worked in a commercial business may seem to be time wasted . |
| 26 | UNDER the improbable aegis of Ronald Reagan , who has never found occasion to say much good or bad about science during his long public career , it may well be that the American scientific community is headed for an economic boom . |
| 27 | Holophonics sounds especially impressive to someone who has never heard binaural or ‘ dummy head ’ recordings . |
| 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 | A daughter ( or more rarely a son ) who has never left the parental home , or who has returned after widowhood or divorce to stay on indefinitely to care for an elderly parent or parents , does not make this choice automatically . |
| 30 | This may appear to be easier , but it is not always wisest , especially for the novice who has never kept large cichlids before . |