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 | The Royals at least belong to ‘ us ’ — but the EC has never captured the national imagination . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Courtney practised in Harley Street as a gynaecologist even though he has never passed the required exams . |
| 14 | But I 'd never seen the real thing . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She 'd never caught the French trick of eating slowly , relishing the food . |
| 17 | I wish I 'd never got the beastly thing . ’ |
| 18 | I 've never heard the enormous crocodile . |
| 19 | ‘ You 're saying you 've never given the poor girl a scrap of encouragement ? ’ she mocked scornfully . |
| 20 | I 've never seen the fabulous city of New York and I 've never finished reading The Rise of The Dutch Republic . ’ |
| 21 | Because you 've never met the right woman … she wanted to say . |
| 22 | I 've never taken the easy way out , I 'll have you know . |
| 23 | Her ultimate choice was surprising , for Philippe Le Bas was the son of a man who had sat in the Convention of 1793 and who had never renounced the republican ethos in which his father had brought him up . |
| 24 | Save for a few naval battles , the war had never reached the Old World . |
| 25 | The there , a lot had , we had never made the small ones before . |
| 26 | Dr Tariq had never liked the featureless flatland of the Fao peninsula before the war . |
| 27 | He had never understood the old joke . |
| 28 | She had never heard the whole story , but apparently some of his ideas were considered a little too daring for the traditionalists in Tokyo , and he found the rug pulled from under him . |
| 29 | Had never felt the exquisite excitement that she felt at this moment . |
| 30 | Until they came to Overclyst , Susan and Breeze had never experienced the endless joy of watching the seasons come and go . |