Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [art] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ( 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 . )
2 I mean I 've never heard a reggae record like this , nor any other record , come to that , imagine the sort of slow , two-note bassline of De La Soul 's ‘ What 's More ’ taken back to its R&B roots , with copping guitar , honking sax and leering swagger in the rhythm .
3 When I started stravaiging about the bens and glens more than 50 years ago , I had never heard the name Munro applied to a hill .
4 You 've never heard the term summer walker ?
5 When I say that Dolores had never heard the term gig before joining the band I am not taking the piss or ridiculing her .
6 ‘ I know it 's silly , but I 've never outgrown a childhood tendency to travel sickness .
7 However , the USA have never ratified the Warsaw Convention so as far as air carrier liability is concerned within the USA the sky is the limit and any party whose negligence can be proved is liable .
8 Even if you have never given a bottle feed yourself it is possible that the baby received one from a nurse while in the maternity ward .
9 That is one of the theories expressed by many why Hoddle was never given the freedom Gascoigne is now enjoying .
10 ‘ If men never considered the exchange rate in precisely those terms , ’ the man wrote , ‘ then the Caprice and the Ivy would have given up on the supper trade decades ago . ’
11 A MAN who complained of 17 years of hounding by the television licensing authority although he had never owned a TV set won a remarkable legal battle and £5,500 expenses yesterday .
12 Former Test fast bowlers Sir Richard Hadlee and Michael Holding have been made honorary life members of MCC , as have the club 's former secretary Jack Bailey , Laurance Hancock ( secretary of Staffordshire for 53 years until 1987 ) and Glamorgan stalwart Don Shepherd , who took 2174 wickets for the Welsh county but never won a Test cap .
13 Although karate developed in Japan , that country has never won a team world championship , whereas Great Britain has won it on no less than four occasions — a record unmatched in the history of karate .
14 Significantly , despite his huge investment in bloodstock , Sheikh Mohammed has never won the Epsom Derby and the pressure will be on to have this exceptional three-year-old line up for the world 's most famous Classic .
15 Northern Ireland has never won the Home Internationals before but team manager Jim McGrory feels that this year 's selection is good enough to achieve success for the first time .
16 His jockey , Peter Scudamore , has ridden more winners than any rider in history , but has never won the Gold Cup .
17 Pitman and McCourt four of the best but one of them has never won the Gold Cup
18 Pitman and McCourt four of the best jockeys but one of them has never won the Gold Cup which one …
19 Great Britain have never won the World Cup but after this summer 's titanic struggle for the Ashes and blessed with home advantage , Mal Reilly 's men will never have a better chance to take the trophy .
20 England , like Scotland , have never won the World Cup .
21 I 've never enjoyed a beach holidays because I 'm too scared to go in the water .
22 I 'd never enjoyed the media interest and the goldfish-bowl aspect of driving , and while I was grateful to have fans their continual invasion of my privacy got me down .
23 Kragan did n't add that he had never trusted the newspaper proprietor who sat on the council .
24 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 .
25 Oxfordshire has never suffered a rabies case .
26 I 've never met an Elaine Webb , I do not remember your birth , and I 'm sure I did n't deliver you ! ’
27 It was an excitement that matched my own , for I had never sailed the South Seas and I had long dreamed of that scatter of tiny , magically named islands strewn across one third of a globe .
28 One touching moment during a Love Feast in Edenderry was once when a visitor to the service , who had never attended a Love Feast before but who had felt he wished to share in it , stood and held up half the biscuit he had been given .
29 Although Chapman was by now a famous man , and his name was familiar to thousands who had never attended a football match , on a social level he remained as affable and unassuming as the next man .
30 ( Many Keynesians who had never accepted the Phillips curve regarded its ‘ breakdown ’ as the long overdue come uppance of an uninvited and unwelcome intruder . )
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