Example sentences of "[noun pl] have never [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Independent Companies had never taken a prisoner , although this was not from want of trying . |
| 2 | Mr Smith said it was ‘ appalling ’ that many 18- to 24-year-olds had never had a job . |
| 3 | They had only three or four NCOs who had seen action before , and 50 replacement troops had never fired a rifle before they reached Sparrow Force . |
| 4 | The company claims its two million DOS Fastback customers have never reported a case of data loss due to product malfunction. +1 504 291–7221 |
| 5 | A very young man has shot himself and ‘ we ’ ride off in an inquisitive Gadarene ‘ cavalcade ’ ( ‘ our ladies had never seen a suicide ’ ) to view the corpse ; ‘ everything 's so boring ’ — recall Marya Lebyadkin 's words — ‘ one ca n't afford to be squeamish about one 's amusements so long as they are fun ’ ; and Lyamshin , the man who gets himself asked to parties to mimic women in labour , new-born babies , and peasants in the confessional , steals a bunch of grapes from the room of death . |
| 6 | The Beans had never had a family doctor . |
| 7 | Mr Dods , 30 , said : ‘ Some of these children have never seen a cow being milked or anything on a farm . |
| 8 | Well estate agents have never sold a house in their lives , they move paper . |
| 9 | In fact the screening rate of women in the excluded group has been low over the last 20 years — some 50–80 per cent of older women have never had a smear . |