Example sentences of "have never [vb pp] [pron] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In the past it has been said AMV 's TV has never matched its press work ; that it has been insular and unadventurous from a strategic corporate point of view ; and that it has relied too heavily on its self-referential ability to sell middle-class brands .
2 We 've never curtailed our lending policy for the right transaction .
3 She had never seen her mother cry .
4 He shook his head , not understanding , knowing only that he had never seen his father sleeping .
5 On 8 December , for example , the Sunday Times reported that union subscriptions had been deducted from the pay of some 10,000 construction workers in London , but that these subscriptions had never reached their trade union .
6 As Dulé had never heard his mother tongue , he and his new companions could only surmise , from the similar flare of their nostrils , the high broad set of their shoulders on slender frames , and the deep oval plunge of their chins on thin , round necks , that he came from the same part of the hinterland of West Africa , was of the Iqbo people in his origins .
7 Some forty-five years after my visit to Preston I was talking to a business acquaintance who , although having been based in Southampton for many years , had never lost his Lancashire accent .
8 He had never brought my parents joy or pride , as Carl , or for that matter ( to varying degree ) my other brothers .
9 I have never seen my friend look more surprised .
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