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

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1 ‘ I 've never pursued any man in my life ! ’ she flared , stung by his disparaging ‘ dear ’ as much as by what he seemed to believe .
2 " Patrick has never exhibited any interest in girls , " Katherine said quickly .
3 Numbers may , of course , bring increased power and in the Crofter case Viscount Maugham said that he had never felt any difficulty in seeing ‘ the great difference between the acts of one person and the acts in combination of two or of a multitude , ’ but , as Viscount Simon L.C. remarked in the same case :
4 You may tell me why a young lady who , whatever she says , has never done any work in her life before , has come to the East End to find it . ’
5 The spectral type is F. In general F-stars are said to be yellowish , but I have never seen any colour in Canopus , either with the naked eye or with optical aid ; to me it looks pure white .
6 It is said to be slightly yellowish , though I have never seen any colour in it either with the naked eye or with binoculars .
7 Having been a soldier in the First World War , he really knows what he is writing about and is a great contrast to some of the pretentious poets who preach about war while they have never seen any violence in their entire lives .
8 And we 've never had any problems in that area at all , so , to that extent .
9 You know she 's never had any problems in the past . ’
10 You 've never had any problems in , in , in the past ?
11 Paula has never had any hesitation in making the initial approach to men .
12 In a telling intervention , the hon. Member for Caithness and Sutherland ( Mr. Maclennan ) , in whose constituency Dounreay lies , pointed out that he has never had any difficulty in obtaining relevant and accurate information from the operator .
13 I did n't want to grow old having never had any excitement in my life .
14 But I 've never had any experience in this field .
15 I have had my glassfish about 18 months , and have never had any trouble in getting them to take dried food as opposed to live .
16 Adam himself had never shown any interest in Wyvis Hall , as far as he had noticed .
17 Mate Boban , the Croatian Serb leader , unlike his Bosnian Serb counterpart , Radovan Karadzic , has never shown any interest in his tinpot territory 's independence from the mother state .
18 Until then , Franco had never shown any interest in the Falange , and the party had made no attempt to recruit him .
19 They say they have never encountered any problems in being an all-female firm ; if anything , they find that a lot of their male clients find it easier to talk to a woman about their finances .
20 Because our computer programme has been specially designed for us by our Information Technology Manager , we have never experienced any problems in converting our English clients ' instructions to Scots !
21 I have never experienced any racism in athletics .
22 She had never found any place in the world intimidating when she was after a story and she had the ability to ferret out facts , an uncanny instinct for the truth .
23 Having drank in that pub for eight years and having never caused any trouble in that time , I am disgusted by the fact that there is a general ban on customers with a pierced nose .
24 He was easy to talk to , never allowed any pauses in the conversation , and their paths went back far enough to allow them to spend hours just chatting about people they knew in common .
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