Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I seem to have been fairly successful in that I 've never neither I , nor Father Christmas , has ever been asked for what I would consider to be a greedy , outrageous present ! |
| 2 | well it never has done I mean that , it 's always been like that I 've never had |
| 3 | There 's only you know people that come like and that that I have never said no to . |
| 4 | This I 've never done before . |
| 5 | Before writing this I 'd never actually seen it before , but after playing it I realise I did n't miss anything . |
| 6 | ‘ Before all this I had never been a fisherman but I have now taken it up and am enjoying it , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ Funny I 've never seen it before , the times I 've been in your Gran 's house , ’ he said . |
| 8 | No , I 'm afraid I 've never really had what you could call a boyfriend , someone to come calling to take me out . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm afraid I 've never met an amnesiac . ’ |
| 10 | And he is one of the few who have never changed sides . |
| 11 | Our next destination was Queenstown , a tourist centre set amid mountains and lakes , and offering every conceivable kind of outdoor activity including some you 've never even heard of . |
| 12 | The post-1950 returnees were joined by some who had never before left the villages . |
| 13 | It 's funny they 've never been a great juice freak really |
| 14 | Cedric had been just too young for the war , and for this he had never forgiven Fate . |
| 15 | All this he had never known before . |
| 16 | For the past seven years , Bates has been the one constant factor in the British Davis Cup team for since his debut against Portugal in 1985 he has never missed a match and has played singles on every occasion . |
| 17 | She 'd liked men — of course she had — but for some reason or another it had never deepened into anything else . |
| 18 | To be honest I 've never seen Parrot . |
| 19 | This call has been said to sound like " go back , go back " , but to me it always sounds like a duck laughing ( to be honest I 've never heard a duck laughing , so I 'm probably totally wrong ) . |
| 20 | He is not , so far as I know , having it off with anyone and I certainly am not , more 's the pity in a sense , though to be honest I 've never felt less inclined in my life . ’ |
| 21 | It 's on the same site and everything , to be honest I 've never measured the old one . |
| 22 | To be honest I have never seen this happen in a community tank , where as Neon tetras will even spawn in this environment . |
| 23 | Good lad , well done , that was very clever you 've never done that before have you ? |
| 24 | Until she was thirteen she had never been outside the Grange garden alone . |
| 25 | He was , then , a big , overgrown , shy man of twenty-eight who had never loved anyone before and it made him feel happy and strong and confident . |
| 26 | I am convinced she had never lived in a house before , and had never had any real relationship with people . |
| 27 | Fred was convinced he had never seen the man before . |
| 28 | It was possible she had never been in a tunnel before , except perhaps in a car going quickly through some underpass . |
| 29 | Anyway it 's possible she 's never been there and may possibly know nothing about it . ’ |
| 30 | It is estimated that two-thirds of those with impaired hearing suffer from tinnitus , but it is almost unknown in the born deaf who have never experienced sound . |