Example sentences of "[noun sg] have never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The link has never failed . |
| 2 | The result is that women typically become ‘ equal ’ by having to do more , to stretch themselves to work as hard as a man , even when experiencing bodily processes that a male has never experienced . |
| 3 | The slogan has never changed . |
| 4 | The Leeds defence has never looked as secure since they did away with the old back pass law — Whyte and Fairclough looked good because all they had to do was knock it back to big John . |
| 5 | The Leeds defence has never looked as secure since they did away with the old back pass law — Whyte and Fairclough looked good because all they had to do was knock it back to big John . |
| 6 | The NABC has never fostered a North/South divide and the suggestion from Mr Atkinson that we would give preference to the views from southern counties , as against northern counties , is totally without foundation . |
| 7 | That interfering old cow has never liked me . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a skull really , but the saint 's skin has never rotted away , ’ he informed me . |
| 9 | This writer has never attended a more populated exhibition of Old Masters and has rarely overheard so much intelligent discussion , particularly from ‘ ordinary ’ visitors . |
| 10 | My mum has never told me to have a goal . |
| 11 | ‘ The board has never discussed it , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Well that may indeed be so , but the Christian faith has never entered into that particular point , because the Christian faith is never in the business of checks and balances . |
| 13 | Transcendental Meditation has never acquired the reputation of a sinister cult , but doubts are sometimes voiced about it . |
| 14 | Since I welcomed my first visitor in 1953 my policy of giving value for money has never changed . |
| 15 | Since then , Labour has never made a generous offer of co-operation with other Scottish groups or parties which recognised their differing views on home rule or democracy . |
| 16 | Since then , Labour has never won a secure working majority at any election . |
| 17 | Labour has never won a majority in parliament against a press so tilted against it as now . |
| 18 | The programme has never done better than it is doing now , it is going great guns . ’ |
| 19 | The merits of the programme itself are debated below , but in spite of considerable resources expended , the programme has never taken on its comprehensive scope . |
| 20 | Fry and Flashman both launched a tirade of abuse against each other following their parting , but now they have shelved their differences and will work together again in a twosome , the like of which football has never seen , or is likely to again . |
| 21 | Last night Mr Stephenson , of Limbrick Avenue , Fairfield , Stockton , said he had seen many dead bodies since , but the memory of May 's brutal murder has never left him . |
| 22 | ‘ Why is it snooker has never taken off in America ? ’ |
| 23 | The Northern Echo has never indulged in personal attacks on John Richardson . |
| 24 | However , the future has never looked better . |
| 25 | Since the beginning of September until this week there has been practically no rain , and the wind has never reached gale force , so the leaves have stayed on the trees far longer than usual , with a constantly changing pattern of glorious colour . |
| 26 | And the whole process is made as simultaneously agonising and amazing as it could be — you labour to give birth , that 's the right word all right , and it 's about as ghastly as possible and then at the end there 's this absolutely wonderful feeling , that the conspiracy has never hinted at , when you hold it and see it and you suddenly realise there 's a whole new emotion you did n't know anything about . |
| 27 | It may also be the reason why , in its forty-year history , the Police Staff College has never achieved any real academic status ; for , as Lewis ( ibid. 183 ) also points out : |
| 28 | Darlington College has never had a winner in the national finals but course leader Alan Brookfield thinks this could be the lucky year . |
| 29 | Bremner has never done anything by half . |
| 30 | His glance had never left her as she 'd tapped towards him across the mirror-like floor , dark eyes sweeping her from head to toe to take in her black high-heeled shoes , black stockings and the stark simplicity of the black wool dress skimming her knees , with a sardonic half-smile . |