Example sentences of "[noun sg] have never [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The NABC has never fostered a North/South divide and the suggestion from Mr Atkinson that we would give preference to the views from southern counties , as against northern counties , is totally without foundation . |
| 2 | Labour has never won a majority in parliament against a press so tilted against it as now . |
| 3 | Darlington College has never had a winner in the national finals but course leader Alan Brookfield thinks this could be the lucky year . |
| 4 | It 's the same as that place in Australia where they have n't seen rain for seventeen years , I mean there 's children who are grown up now at college have never seen a spot of rain , I 'd hate that I 'd rather have our , sometimes dismal climate . |
| 5 | Naturally gifted as he was , the Japanese boy had never taken a golf lesson . |
| 6 | Angel had never had a lesson ; he played as naturally as he walked . |
| 7 | Firstly , Software AG is not obliged to fork out part of its profits to shareholders in dividend payments , and so can pump more into research and development — but then Micro Focus Plc has never paid a dividend . |
| 8 | On the contrary , since a high proportion of this age group have never had a smear or no recent smear , screening of this age group would have substantial benefits . ’ |
| 9 | Yet is that not exactly what the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) and his hon. Friends are advocating , through the establishment of a national investment bank and a host of other measures — despite the fact that the hon. Gentleman has never done a day 's work in industry in his life ? |
| 10 | Most likely a first-time father has never seen a person in such pain and it 's also the person he loves most . |
| 11 | ‘ If a woman has never had a Caesarean , we can push her quite hard , ’ says Dr Paterson . |
| 12 | The German government has never spent a lot of money on culture , and after reunification it cut the social , not the cultural , budget which is absurdly low anyhow . |
| 13 | Mime has never enjoyed a place on centre stage , it lives in the shadows of fringe theatre and the Big Top . |
| 14 | The US Congress has never uttered a word of criticism against the Israelis . |
| 15 | Although karate developed in Japan , that country has never won a team world championship , whereas Great Britain has won it on no less than four occasions — a record unmatched in the history of karate . |
| 16 | But cash from the sale of licensed goods , cosmetics , sunglasses and perfume like C'est La Vie , did not flood in and the company has never made a profit . |
| 17 | It was a fascinating glimpse of a people who in the sixteenth century had never seen a wheel or a sea-going ship , had never faced an armoured knight on horseback or the fire power of crossbows and guns , but whose roads and lines of communication through the incredible terrain of the Andes , whose methods of agriculture by irrigation and whose whole political set-up , so close to what we know as Communism , was in some ways more advanced than that of their conquerors . |
| 18 | His brother has never driven a cab before either ; this was going to be his first day . |
| 19 | Peter said , ‘ My mother has never had a lover . |
| 20 | Some teacher must have found out that most of his class had never seen a duck before , so they started an urban zoo . |
| 21 | His family have never owned a television and he usually watches it at his gran 's house . |