Example sentences of "[verb] never [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The successive run of seven is unique in cricket history — unequalled even by Yorkshire , which has never exceeded a sequence of four . |
| 2 | So far James has never given a scrap of trouble and has passed his MoT test with flying colours . |
| 3 | Certainly he has never given a hint that he knows anything . |
| 4 | And because he has never seen a smile , he has never learned to give one . |
| 5 | They must introduce an unfamiliar subject to an audience which has never seen a watercolour before , and also provide new information of permanent value . |
| 6 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |
| 7 | Most likely a first-time father has never seen a person in such pain and it 's also the person he loves most . |
| 8 | Claire has never seen a man in a leopardskin jockstrap before . |
| 9 | Who among us , hand on heart , is prepared to say that he has never propelled a club through the air after fluffing a pitch in the weekend medal , or let slip an expression not to be found in the Royal and Ancient 's book of etiquette ? |
| 10 | I think I 'm right in saying the PFA has never lost a battle it has fought . |
| 11 | He has never lost a case at trial . |
| 12 | Like his suitors , he has never made a BBC programme . |
| 13 | John McEnroe has never made a secret of his desire , one day , to become the United States Davis Cup captain . |
| 14 | And who of us has never made a phone call we did n't want others to overhear ? |
| 15 | But cash from the sale of licensed goods , cosmetics , sunglasses and perfume like C'est La Vie , did not flood in and the company has never made a profit . |
| 16 | The US Congress has never uttered a word of criticism against the Israelis . |
| 17 | She has never received a lira of State help , despite the fact that her brother , Giuseppe Ciarrapico , chairman of the Roma football team , was a close associate of ex-Prime Minister Andreotti . |
| 18 | ( Ironically , but also significantly , one is from a school which has never received a project grant and the other from a school which received a retrospective Minor grant some time before the deputy head herself took up her post . ) |
| 19 | He says his company paid seventy eight thousand pounds to promoters , and has never received a penny in refunds . |
| 20 | Mrs Thatcher has never declared a state of emergency . |
| 21 | Oxfordshire has never suffered a rabies case . |
| 22 | Since making his debut against Pakistan in 1978–79 as a 19-year-old , he has never missed a Test through injury , a truly remarkable performance for a fast bowler . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ She has never missed a class and she will even telephone if she is going to be two minutes late . |
| 25 | Yet is that not exactly what the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) and his hon. Friends are advocating , through the establishment of a national investment bank and a host of other measures — despite the fact that the hon. Gentleman has never done a day 's work in industry in his life ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The law , however , has never allowed a corporation to sue in respect of injury to its feelings on the basis that the injury might be suffered by its agents : as Lord Reid said in Lewis v. Daily Telegraph Ltd. [ 1964 ] A.C. 234 , 262 : ‘ A company can not be injured in its feelings , ’ and he added , ‘ it can only be injured in its pocket ’ but pecuniary damage to a corporation 's reputation was not in issue in that case . |
| 28 | The German government has never spent a lot of money on culture , and after reunification it cut the social , not the cultural , budget which is absurdly low anyhow . |
| 29 | She has never hurled a grenade or primed a bomb in her life . |
| 30 | For , although the Institute has provided undergraduate teaching and postgraduate supervision over the years , it has never offered a degree course in the History of Art in the manner of other British universities with outstanding collections , such as Glasgow , Manchester , London or East Anglia . |