Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [noun] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 3 | In generative phonology , a results from vowel reduction in vowels which have never received stress in the process of the application of stress rules . |
| 4 | However , a PFLP-GC statement broadcast by Al-Quds on Feb. 7 pointed out that it had never claimed responsibility for the attack . |
| 5 | Having an excellent harbour , Vancouver was a sportsman 's paradise so far as swimming , fishing , and boating were concerned , and while I have never claimed prowess in the water or in angling I have found pleasure on a boat , provided that boat was big enough — big enough that is , for me to sit comfortably on deck , preferably with a drink in hand , and watch the world go by . |
| 6 | We have never accepted presents from the government . |
| 7 | ‘ I have never seen Soho on the screen , ’ wrote Ernest Betts in 1928 and then he added that he had never seen Southend , Birmingham , Chelsea , Bloomsbury , or London suburbia either . |
| 8 | In my view , Harold Wilson never made peace with the press because he was too anxious to do so . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've never had flooding in the past as catastrophic as this though , ’ Maggie protested . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've never bought water by the lorry load before . |
| 11 | No matter how tedious she was in other ways , he had always assumed that it was n't in her nature to be coarse , and certainly she 'd never displayed evidence of the inclination . |
| 12 | Mr Yardley , according to his wife , had never set foot in the tent . |
| 13 | However , he had never set foot in the village again . |
| 14 | I must say I was quite surpri I 've never set foot in the place before since that time we went down before it was open . |
| 15 | ‘ I hardly feel that I 'm the person to answer that particular question , ’ offered Mr Palmer , ‘ as I 've never set eyes on the lady before yesterday . ’ |
| 16 | But it had been close and the children had never taken liberties with the river again . |
| 17 | This is because government has never lost sight of the primacy of production , and has been able to avoid excessive borrowing to pay for it — in Cameroun because of the availability of oil , and in Kenya as a result of the low-key transfer of assets into African hands without any disruption in production . |
| 18 | All this activity left little time for photography but , even after returning to the States to continue his work for the FSA , Delano never lost sight of the fact that his introduction to Puerto Rico had been through a camera . |
| 19 | But John Gittins has never lost sight of the fact that man must work in harmony with nature . |
| 20 | Our eyes have been closed for many centuries , yet the sages and physicians of the East have never lost sight of the reality of the WHOLE . |
| 21 | More than a third of the undergraduates never ordered books at the university bookshops , and less than a third of the grant provided by the Department of Education and Science was spent as it was supposed to be . |