Example sentences of "have never [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He has never engaged in acquisitive crime such as burglary , because this would contradict his 1960s ‘ peace and love ’ philosophy .
2 Well known through his contribution to the Whitney Biennial in 1985 , when he decorated the public lavatories , and from exhibitions with Tony Shafrazi , he has never shown in this country , but Edward Totah makes the correction when he presents ten large canvases and twenty-six smaller pictures ( 7 April–23 May ) .
3 Even with no lesbian volunteers , some women continued to call ; women who 'd never heard of Lesbian Line , women who could n't call during the hours they were open , women who 'd swallowed media distortions of separatist groups , women who preferred the service or needed information Switchboard had .
4 ‘ I 've got to hand it to you , Angel , I 'd never thought of that technique , ’ said Bunny with genuine admiration .
5 Having never settled into any kind of worthwhile career before the war , now , in keeping with many other ex-officers , he found he was virtually unemployable .
6 I think it would have been a disaster and a recipe for disaster because practically if you know what the situation is in the Moat Centre and the Highfields youth and community centre then people would have never resisted to that change .
7 I 've never heard of such nonsense .
8 I 've never heard of that word .
9 ‘ I 've never heard of any Spittler , ’ Don Mini said .
10 I 've never I 've never heard about this thing called cos squared X , you explain it to me what do what 's it all about ?
11 Calling our resources , uniting our activists , achieving by cooperation what we 've never achieved by wasteful competition , but then of course that 's a vision .
12 ‘ I would n't know , ’ she said coolly , though her heart was making furious thunder inside her chest , ‘ as I 've never ridden in either vehicle .
13 down Edinburgh Road you said to down Edinburgh Road we 've never gone in this place , it 's a cook meat shop
14 ‘ You know , ’ she said quietly , ‘ that I 've never slept with any man until today . ’
15 On the other hand , I 've never read of any attack by a cab-driver in his cab .
16 Edmund Sparkler born there during a ‘ mighty frost ’ in which , his companions say , ‘ his brain had been frozen up … and had never thawed from that hour ’ .
17 Perhaps , she thought , it was because she had never lived in this house .
18 We 've been writing to each other for eight years but had never met until this year .
19 After this the woman had gone on to attack her wearing feminine clothes , and somehow after that , Gabriel , although liking the woman ( called Karen , whom she had gone on knowing ) and still believing you should Ban the Bomb , had never gone on another march .
20 ‘ He had never run on heavy ground in his life and his best form was always on good or fast going , ’ he said yesterday .
21 ‘ I had never heard of alternative comedy and I have to confess I did n't know some of my co-stars , like Rik Mayall and Julian Clary .
22 Tobin : I had never heard of this guy .
23 He had come to France ( in which he spent more than half his life as king of England ) and had , as contemporaries recognised , achieved considerable conquests , something which his predecessors had never done on that scale or within so short a period of time .
24 There were twenty minutes of extra time played , in which a kid called Martin came on — he had never played in first grade before — and scored the clinching try for Canberra .
25 She had never felt with this intensity before , and knew she never would again , unless it was Travis who was holding her .
26 It was a fact that her relationship with Hugh had never progressed to actual intimacy .
27 They had never talked at any length before and Seb found the gipsy stimulating and amusing company .
28 Or have you ever got a group of pupils talking , and having heard how inarticulate they are , how little they understand , wished that you had never embarked in this direction ?
29 Earlier in life she had loved music passionately , but after Montaine 's suicide she had never listened to another note .
30 She had never responded to any man in her whole life as she did to Felipe .
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