Example sentences of "[pers pn] have never [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I have never heard a member of an ethnic minority obliged to dwell within the barbarous framework of a powerful , prosperous , white , allegedly Christian culture talk about the richness of the multicultural society . |
2 | oh but they really get up my nose ! just wan na do is phone me up , you know I I sa oh had a row with , do n't say anything like about quarter to four time and I said to her , well I 'll be quite honest I said er there 's sixty pound a week or seventy pound a week I get more than you I said I have never heard a load of moaning pratts in all my life ! |
3 | I hope the FRCC can understand my annoyance , since I have never placed a bolt on a Lakeland crag . |
4 | And in the Commons in 1860 he declared : " I have never uttered a word in favour of universal franchise either in this House or elsewhere . " |
5 | I have never descended a pothole , and have ventured with a flashlight only in the caves promised by caving journals to be without danger . |
6 | And I have never kissed a woman like you before , I 've never kissed you before . |
7 | The responses were later grouped into three categories : ( a ) never smoker — ‘ I have never smoked a cigarette , not even a puff ’ ; ( b ) tried but stopped — ‘ I have only ever tried smoking once or twice but I do n't smoke now , ’ or ‘ I used to smoke sometimes but I do n't smoke now ’ ; ( c ) current smoker — ‘ I smoke sometimes but I do n't smoke as much as one cigarette a week ’ or ‘ I usually smoke between one and six cigarettes a week , ’ or ‘ I usually smoke more than six cigarettes a week . ’ |
8 | I have never written a song or acted in theatre or a big movie , so there is still lots to learn , ’ she said in her St James 's Club suite . |
9 | I have never lost a guest yet . ’ |
10 | ‘ I have been a teacher for forty years , but I have never met a boy like Tony . |
11 | One thing I can say of him with total confidence is that I have never met a man less interested in money . |
12 | Strange , to this day I have never met a priest who was n't afraid to die . |
13 | ‘ I play hockey and I have never missed a day through sickness in 17 years , even with torn muscles and ligaments , ’ he said . |
14 | I have never seen a King dressed as badly as you were ! |
15 | ‘ I have never seen a King as badly dressed as you were ! ’ |
16 | ‘ I have never seen a fracture of the anterior fossa of the skull due to a blow on the nose … |
17 | I have never seen a church empty so quickly . ) |
18 | In his second letter he wrote , ‘ I have never seen a cradle without thinking of a grave ; the sight of a naked woman makes me imagine her skeleton . ’ |
19 | ‘ I have never seen a rain storm like it — it must have lasted more than 30 minutes . |
20 | I can tell you Elsie I have never seen a fish like it . |
21 | I have never seen a hunt in progress , although I recall vaguely as a child being taken to watch a Meet when I was visiting relatives in Piercebridge . |
22 | I have never seen a player catch a football in his mouth and spit it back to his keeper before . |
23 | The related thorny question of abortion was another topic , and Mr. Jenks was cheered when , referring to his work in hospitals , he said : ‘ I have never seen a woman who wanted an abortion , but plenty who felt they had no alternative ’ , citing education to stop unwanted pregnancies as the real solution . |
24 | ‘ I have never seen a bear so huge , Sir John ! ’ he exclaimed . |
25 | However , I have never seen a copy of this circulated at the subdivision level at any location I have worked ; and outside force HQ the availability of any research or analytic literature on policing falls off dramatically . |
26 | ‘ I have never seen a cut in education spending , ’ he said . |
27 | But I have never seen a gang-fight , as such , with grown men involved . |
28 | ‘ I have been a nurse for ten years but I have never seen a bullet wound . |
29 | So customers spent their money on twelve-inch discs instead , and in fact I have never seen a twenty-inch Neophone record . |
30 | ‘ I have never killed a man before . ’ |