Example sentences of "[adv] never [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The locals have obviously never tried a good pint of 6X ; how can they drink this stuff ? |
| 2 | Another rumour countered that she had always been unpleasant and had thus never had a love-affair , unhappy or otherwise . |
| 3 | I 've just never known a woman priest … but with someone as good as her , one gradually gets over the prejudice . |
| 4 | Even the Dutch , who colonized the nation longer than any other Western power , were more interested in trading posts than in exploration , and vested their authority in the local chieftains who in turn vested theirs on down the line so that a great many Indonesians have still never seen a European . |
| 5 | Although fans will tell you there is nothing as exciting as attacking football , those who frequent ‘ The Tip ’ have probably never witnessed a game between two attacking sides . |
| 6 | The erasure was probably not the result of weathering , because Mercury has probably never possessed a significant atmosphere and certainly not for any length of time . |
| 7 | She thought you 'd probably never had a bathroom to yourself and that you 'd appreciate something a bit special . ’ |
| 8 | Andrew Richens was 17 when he stabbed William Choi , who he claimed had boasted of having sex with his girlfriend and had taunted him by saying she had probably never had a real man before . |
| 9 | ‘ He also never held a grudge . |
| 10 | They uniformly show young , narrow-shouldered , and in so far as one can see through the draperies , narrow-hipped , flat-chested women with long pale hands which have clearly never done a stroke of work . |
| 11 | Rome clearly never found a perfect solution for this problem : eventually she had to face the rebellion of the socii and grant them entry into Roman citizenship . |
| 12 | Although some of the things that you were taught you maybe never got a chance to do them in the bakery . |
| 13 | My occasional presence at Summerchild 's front gate , keeping Millie from her pious labours on the birthday book and obstructing his view of the cracked step , evidently never reached a sufficient level of generality to impinge upon him . |
| 14 | Dr Neil could have given her several answers , beginning with the beautiful hands lying in her lap which had visibly never done a stroke of work in their owner 's life , but said instead , ‘ A strange place for a young lady like yourself to look for it . ’ |
| 15 | I 've certainly never kept a journal before , it 's not the age of journals . |
| 16 | I 've certainly never seen a horse in Dublin . |
| 17 | She had certainly never visited a sick young man alone . |
| 18 | It 's very frustrating because I 've never never known a client who knew what his losses were . |