Example sentences of "have never [verb] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd never amount to a fortune — not at a penny a hundred points — but at least they paid for a few packets of cigarettes . |
| 2 | I 've had a girlfriend for two and a half years , but before that I 'd never spoken to a girl in my life . |
| 3 | She herself had never aspired to a career , finding complete satisfaction in acting as her husband 's typist and research assistant in the time she had left over from gardening and housekeeping . |
| 4 | She had never talked to a spy properly before . |
| 5 | Edward Carrington had never talked to a woman like this before . |
| 6 | The work has been quite hard , actually little short of the 24 hours ' teaching a week which I originally feared we might have to teach , but it 's a pity not to offer the course as we prepared it in Peking , complete with extra lectures , as there seems to be a great demand for anything we teach , which is understandable considering that it 's a chance of a lifetime for some of the teachers ; in fact , some have never spoken to a foreigner in their lives before ! |