Example sentences of "never [vb pp] a [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the Commons in 1860 he declared : " I have never uttered a word in favour of universal franchise either in this House or elsewhere . " |
| 2 | Labour has never won a majority in parliament against a press so tilted against it as now . |
| 3 | I have never seen a hunt in progress , although I recall vaguely as a child being taken to watch a Meet when I was visiting relatives in Piercebridge . |
| 4 | ‘ I have never seen a cut in education spending , ’ he said . |
| 5 | She was blonde , like his Mandy , except unlike Mandy she had never had a chance in life . |
| 6 | She 's never had a chance in life — but she trades on her ill-luck . |
| 7 | The depth of knowledge assumed by colleagues who have never experienced a break in service can undermine the confidence of returners , even if the supposed lack of knowledge is more imagined than real . |
| 8 | El Empecinado 's boast that he had never lost a man in action represented sound partisan thinking . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've never fired a gun in anger in my life . |
| 10 | In April , de Gaulle relieved Debré of the premiership and in his place appointed Georges Pompidou , a man who had never held a seat in parliament . |