Example sentences of "they have never [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was wearing a disreputable pair of jeans that looked as though they 'd never seen an iron , and a grey shirt , the sleeves rolled back as if it were summer . |
| 2 | If only they 'd never left the basement with the empty meat-safe hanging outside the window . |
| 3 | This word was said in such a way , and accompanied by a look , that told the woman behind the counter that she did n't know her business , because they 'd never had a pennorth of tiger nuts . |
| 4 | There were thousands of paparazzi and fans because they 'd never had a world premiere in Houston before . |
| 5 | They 'd never had a Christmas day quite like that before . |
| 6 | They 've never felt the pain that lies behind all the hatred we can feel for women , our need to hurt them in return . |
| 7 | They sit in Montreal making decisions and they 've never heard a train 's call at night across the prairie . |
| 8 | Well I bet you , I bet they 've never heard the word the |
| 9 | The cafe owners say they 've never caused an accident . |
| 10 | He says that they 've never caused an accident . |
| 11 | Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high . |
| 12 | Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high . |
| 13 | They 've never seen the people they phone them every week saying do you want a fifty pound advert in a paper which is dumped the next day . |
| 14 | So er can people come along and have a go if they 've never had a go before ? |
| 15 | that 's true but and they like their cup of tea they 've never had a cup of tea |
| 16 | ‘ But they 've never had a market designed especially for them . |
| 17 | Well they 've never had a product that cheap before . |
| 18 | Or maybe they 've never had the time before . |
| 19 | They 've never known the delights of being shut in a cupboard and smacked with a hairbrush by a Nanny whose starched apron crackled across her bosom like approaching thunder . |
| 20 | After all they had never seen a storm being still before . |
| 21 | Mind you some of them looked as if they had never seen a woman before . |
| 22 | ‘ The Black fellows of the Upper Hunter told me ’ , wrote Gould in a letter to E. P. Ramsay in Sydney in 1866 , ‘ that the little Melopsittacus undulatus had come to meet me , for they had never seen the bird in that district until the year I arrived . ’ |
| 23 | They had never witnessed a man get up and say to the wind and to the wave be muzzled ! |
| 24 | There was always a rumour that Noreen had had a baby to an Italian , but they had never heard the truth of it in Ireland . |
| 25 | All over the country hurt and disillusioned journalists and would-be journalists wondering why they had never received a reply could only presume that they had been rejected . |
| 26 | I was first taken to see these ‘ houses ’ by my father when I was nine ; I have often wondered since then why they had never become a tourist attraction . |
| 27 | David Macdonald , one of Britain 's leading fox experts , questioned 400 lowland sheep farmers in England : almost half said they had never lost a lamb to a fox . |
| 28 | But they had never climbed the hill . |
| 29 | When I last spoke to the Otter Trust they had never had a complaint against a canoeist but many against anglers . |
| 30 | They had never had an argument , apart from one occasion in 1956 , when Henry refused to wear a pair of short trousers . |