Example sentences of "never [adv] [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of the most annoying things about getting kicked out is that I never once got a single warning , ’ he says . |
| 2 | Instead of facing the music at Wembley on September 9 , Taylor 's team will play for expenses only on a Spanish Second Division ground that holds only 25,000 spectators and has never before staged a full international match . |
| 3 | It seems that Mr Stringer has never really enjoyed a close relationship with the supporters since , but that could all change at Hillsborough tomorrow afternoon . |
| 4 | I had never even seen a Muslim — apart , of course , from on the television , and the ones I had seen there — I will be absolutely frank — did not seem a particularly inspiring bunch ! ’ |
| 5 | Well , I 've never even seen a dead body before — imagine , what with the bones , the shroud and the flies ; if I had n't had the camera between me and it , I do n't think I could have looked . |
| 6 | I 'd never even held a tiny baby let alone changed a nappy or supervised bath time . |
| 7 | Secondly , we have ‘ unnatural ’ recordings , in which original sounds ( or in some cases electrical waveforms which have never even had a separate acoustic existence ) are subject to processes which make them into something new . |
| 8 | ‘ It is not that we do n't like banks , just , well , I 've never even had a personal overdraft . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ What functions ? ’ has been the response ; a spokesman for Camden , the borough with the largest number of Grade II listed buildings after Westminster , says , ‘ We 've never even had a conservation policy ? ’ |
| 10 | As I had never actually made a cold application for a job before , I did n't really know what to make of this . |
| 11 | I du n no I I mean I have never actually had a written reference from anybody when I 've left |