Example sentences of "never [vb pp] the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | You 've never heard the term summer walker ? |
| 3 | When I say that Dolores had never heard the term gig before joining the band I am not taking the piss or ridiculing her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That is one of the theories expressed by many why Hoddle was never given the freedom Gascoigne is now enjoying . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His jockey , Peter Scudamore , has ridden more winners than any rider in history , but has never won the Gold Cup . |
| 10 | Pitman and McCourt four of the best but one of them has never won the Gold Cup … |
| 11 | Pitman and McCourt four of the best jockeys but one of them has never won the Gold Cup which one … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | England , like Scotland , have never won the World Cup . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Kragan did n't add that he had never trusted the newspaper proprietor who sat on the council . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ( Many Keynesians who had never accepted the Phillips curve regarded its ‘ breakdown ’ as the long overdue come uppance of an uninvited and unwelcome intruder . ) |
| 18 | Well I , I never done the book Mick . |
| 19 | ‘ Although I did n't have any live playing experience — I 'd never done the youth club/dance band/pub/club thing — I still felt that I was technically quite good , having evolved my style from playing along to records . |
| 20 | He paused in the doorway , because it was rare to see the High Queen without at least a dozen courtiers ; certainly he had never seen the Sun Chamber like this , bathed in the glow from the dying day , alive with the strong , pure magic of the Purple Hour , the huge crystal windows that looked out over all Ireland ablaze with light . |
| 21 | And she had never seen the Pacific Ocean . |
| 22 | ‘ Have you never seen the video replay of the accident ? ’ |
| 23 | Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high . |
| 24 | Travel plans have been curtailed so people can focus on the imminent launch later this month and people who have visited Redmond over the last 11 years say they 've never seen the intensity level so high . |
| 25 | Phyllis had never seen the check-out girl before . |
| 26 | If you 've never seen the Tan Hill on a bleary winter 's day when winds are driving wet sleet over the hellhole of Sleightholme Moor and the sky and the land are welded together in one sullen , sodden grey , then you 've missed a treat . |
| 27 | When questioned , Mr Bence said he had never seen the trophy cabinet in his life , and was at a loss to explain how it came to be in the director 's Portakabin . |
| 28 | She had never seen the time machine looking so ordinary . |
| 29 | The keys of old harpsichords are indeed often seen to be hollowed ; however , what this suggests is not that Handel had been assiduously practising on it for many years , but rather that ( being at least loo years old when Hawkins saw it ) it had never had the keys replated. 19th-century scholars were intrigued by this tale , and more than a century after Handel 's death embarked on the quest to rediscover the instrument . |
| 30 | My husband 's eh , never bought the Christmas presents , he buys one and usually he 'd only get that from one of the girls , what shall I get mum can you do . |