Example sentences of "never [vb pp] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Congress has never uttered a word of criticism against the Israelis . |
| 2 | I was sad about this because I am a clubbable person by nature , and have never regarded a game of golf as anything but an occasion of pleasurable social exchange ; but an end to Muirfield was the price I had to pay for the championing of Meehan 's cause . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I have never heard a member of an ethnic minority obliged to dwell within the barbarous framework of a powerful , prosperous , white , allegedly Christian culture talk about the richness of the multicultural society . |
| 5 | I , never heard a word of it . |
| 6 | oh but they really get up my nose ! just wan na do is phone me up , you know I I sa oh had a row with , do n't say anything like about quarter to four time and I said to her , well I 'll be quite honest I said er there 's sixty pound a week or seventy pound a week I get more than you I said I have never heard a load of moaning pratts in all my life ! |
| 7 | One Afro-Caribbean woman described how she felt that she was never given a choice of provision for her son , and objected to being told he should be in a specialist nursery for his own good . |
| 8 | So far James has never given a scrap of trouble and has passed his MoT test with flying colours . |
| 9 | I ca n't help but think , chairman , in my career I was never given a bottle of whisky to help with the |
| 10 | The company claims its two million DOS Fastback customers have never reported a case of data loss due to product malfunction. +1 504 291–7221 |
| 11 | The other thing I would say is this that the management , whilst they very rarely agree with what Eric has got to say I 've never met a member of management at any level , at any level that does n't respect what he 's got to say and that 's a tremendous , er psychological blow before they even get round the table , because he 's completely disarming and his record in terms as vic er for , of victories , for individual members and groups of mem er , members , er , is legendary and I think apart from his ability it 's the respect in which he 's held by , by everybody , by everybody . |
| 12 | Who can honestly say they have never done a bit of work off-the-books or used the services of somebody who was doing so ? |
| 13 | He 's never done a stroke of work since . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I have never seen a fracture of the anterior fossa of the skull due to a blow on the nose … |
| 17 | Fucking I tell you you 've never seen a pair of hands on this like them . |
| 18 | However , I have never seen a copy of this circulated at the subdivision level at any location I have worked ; and outside force HQ the availability of any research or analytic literature on policing falls off dramatically . |
| 19 | Was it you probably wo n't believe this but I 've never seen a programme of Spitting Image . |
| 20 | It 's the same as that place in Australia where they have n't seen rain for seventeen years , I mean there 's children who are grown up now at college have never seen a spot of rain , I 'd hate that I 'd rather have our , sometimes dismal climate . |
| 21 | The successive run of seven is unique in cricket history — unequalled even by Yorkshire , which has never exceeded a sequence of four . |
| 22 | John McEnroe has never made a secret of his desire , one day , to become the United States Davis Cup captain . |
| 23 | He had never made a secret of what he wanted from her , and pretending he enjoyed her company , pretending he wanted to laugh with her or show her his favourite places in Rome , was n't part of it . |
| 24 | And then And never made a mistake of course , he tried to teach me but it was just a waste of time . |
| 25 | I have always had women artists but I 've never made a point of it . |
| 26 | Most women artists just like to think of themselves as artists and we 've never made a point of an artist being a woman . |
| 27 | He had been wonderful about her family whom he did not pretend to like , never made an issue of her going there and he let her run on about them when she got home . |
| 28 | I 've never had a contract of employment in the six years that I 've been there but erm less than forty eight hours after all this happened every employee was issued with a contract of employment . |
| 29 | So er you know I I 've I 've never had a sort of er a one way track about politics , although I adore it and I 've er I 've enjoyed it hugely Am enjoying it and I |
| 30 | Well , I 've never had a lot of truck with the power of the word so I 'm not into oral sects . |