Example sentences of "never [vb pp] a [noun] [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ I know it 's silly , but I 've never outgrown a childhood tendency to travel sickness . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Oxfordshire has never suffered a rabies case . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We had never seen a soffit ventilator before , and had only a vague idea about dry-verge ridging , but the excellent catalogues and leaflets provided most of the instructions we needed . |
| 13 | Angalo had found a pebble that was almost the right shape to attach to a twig with strips torn off his coat ; he 'd never seen a stone axe in his life , but he had a definite feeling that there were useful things that could be done with a stone tied to the end of a stick . |
| 14 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |
| 15 | ‘ Never seen a slave band like that afore . ’ |
| 16 | Never seen a Goldfish book ? |
| 17 | He had never seen a credit card , and indeed he was not looking at one now . |
| 18 | Having never seen a swing bridge before I wondered how the boats were going to get under it but I was soon to find out . |
| 19 | It is possible that the young Evelyn , who had never seen a Court masque , was easily impressed . |
| 20 | The executive took care not to let it slip out that he had never seen a DPR contract note . |
| 21 | At first she could n't believe it ; she had never seen a man cry before . |
| 22 | Sir Alexander Cadogan , made chairman in 1952 , had never seen a BBC television programme , and the ones he had seen , in the United States , he did n't much care for . |
| 23 | He also agreed he 'd never seen a skull fracture caused by a blow to the nose . |
| 24 | Have you never seen a fertility clinic catalogue ? ’ |
| 25 | I 've er , thank you , I 've never seen a fox hunt erm I 've er I think once er , once I got along to Cutts Close where the Boxing Day meet occurs and I can well accept that this Boxing Day meet draws a larger crowd of people from Oakham than any other activity through the year . |
| 26 | ‘ I have never seen a rain storm like it — it must have lasted more than 30 minutes . |
| 27 | I 've never seen a motor bike with a trailer |
| 28 | So customers spent their money on twelve-inch discs instead , and in fact I have never seen a twenty-inch Neophone record . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been a nurse for ten years but I have never seen a bullet wound . |
| 30 | Yes , well just a postscript just to show to my earlier comments , I , I think this undertaking about street lighting will be met with some clarity over wide areas of Suffolk which have never seen a street light , er as far as I can recall the last figures I saw on this suggested that if we were to er carry out all the work that er parish is required it would take forty years to er meet the er thing , so perhaps it would be advisable for , for when this promise is acting on the |