Example sentences of "have never [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Smith has never attended the British fashion awards . |
| 2 | It has never generated the cosmopolitan energy typical of Berlin , nor the creative ferment associated with other German cities , such as Düsseldorf or Cologne . |
| 3 | A new race of novelists may result , making it possible to refute with more confidence than hitherto B. S. Johnson 's fear that the British novel has never fulfilled the huge potential created by the irruption of modernism into the literature of the twentieth century . |
| 4 | Bruising , it is reasonable to suppose , has never served the adaptive function of informing others that the body has been hurt . |
| 5 | Some MOX fuel has been made — the lack of an economic rationale has never stopped the nuclear industry trying things — but as yet it has used up only 12.5 tonnes of plutonium . |
| 6 | ‘ The team has never stopped the hard work and the new Celica has improved over the year . |
| 7 | However , it appears that there is no way of reclaiming stolen objects once they have been traced , largely because the UK has never ratified the 1970 Unesco convention on prohibiting the illicit export of cultural property . |
| 8 | The Royals at least belong to ‘ us ’ — but the EC has never captured the national imagination . |
| 9 | Like so many in the New Zealand tour party , Fox has never experienced the intimidating atmosphere generated at the great sporting shrine and may have taken time to slip into the groove . |
| 10 | Any examination of the history of ‘ history , will demonstrate that it has never had the immediate certainty that is implied in the all too frequent invocation of , concrete history ’ . |
| 11 | Where the wife takes the conveyance and requires it to be conveyed to herself and the new husband , she should convey as " trustee " ( thus implying that she herself has not encumbered the property ) as she has never had the legal title vested in her absolutely . |
| 12 | ON WEDNESDAY , Christies ' two star lots are Canaletto 's view of the Old Horse Guards , wonderfully fresh and the most significant of the artist 's London paintings , while Rembrandt 's jewel-like Daniel and Cyrus before the Idol of Bel has never had the slightest sniff from the Rembrandt Research Project , which has whittled 1,000 ‘ Rembrandt 's ’ down to 300 and whittles on remorselessly . |
| 13 | And he claims he has never had the slightest desire to leave her . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As Figure 5.4 shows , for example , 6 per cent of elderly households include an elderly married couple with another adult , often a son or daughter who has never left the parental home , and 3 per cent contain two or more elderly , non-married people . |
| 16 | Courtney practised in Harley Street as a gynaecologist even though he has never passed the required exams . |
| 17 | But McDonald has never enjoyed the same profile this side of the Atlantic . |
| 18 | But I 'd never seen the real thing . |
| 19 | Her choice of career had surprised and confused the students competing against her for jobs , but she 'd never allowed the unspoken disapproval that had surrounded her to deter her from her goal . |
| 20 | She 'd never caught the French trick of eating slowly , relishing the food . |
| 21 | He 'd never shown the slightest interest in any other woman — any decent woman . |
| 22 | I wish I 'd never got the beastly thing . ’ |
| 23 | I 've never heard the enormous crocodile . |
| 24 | ‘ The problem about us , ’ said Helen , ‘ is that we 've never felt the same way about money as most other people seem to . ’ |
| 25 | You 've never displayed the slightest interest in what I do . |
| 26 | ‘ You 're saying you 've never given the poor girl a scrap of encouragement ? ’ she mocked scornfully . |
| 27 | I 've never seen the fabulous city of New York and I 've never finished reading The Rise of The Dutch Republic . ’ |
| 28 | Because you 've never met the right woman … she wanted to say . |
| 29 | I have heard loose talk of people seeing things here by night , but I 've never paid the least attention , so I ca n't tell you what they claim . ’ |
| 30 | I 've never taken the easy way out , I 'll have you know . |