Example sentences of "never [vb pp] a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the Commons in 1860 he declared : " I have never uttered a word in favour of universal franchise either in this House or elsewhere . " |
| 2 | Although placemen never formed a majority in the Commons , attendance at the House was often low — the average attendance per session during William 's reign was 238 — so their significance could be immense if they consistently and unanimously backed the government . |
| 3 | He says his company paid seventy eight thousand pounds to promoters , and has never received a penny in refunds . |
| 4 | I ca n't remember , his life , he 's trying to find what an iron looks like , he 's never ironed a hanky in his life . |
| 5 | I 've never given a speech in my life before . |
| 6 | Labour has never won a majority in parliament against a press so tilted against it as now . |
| 7 | Joanna had never missed a class in her year at the centre and was never late . |
| 8 | The result of this strategy is that I 've never missed a plane in twenty-eight years of international travel — except once . |
| 9 | ‘ But I warn you , I 'm a landlubber : I 've never sailed a boat in my life . |
| 10 | Most likely a first-time father has never seen a person in such pain and it 's also the person he loves most . |
| 11 | Elizabeth had never seen a ghost in her life . |
| 12 | She had never seen a ghost in her life . |
| 13 | And I 've never seen a case in which there was a fist fight in front of the cinema and they pulled the movie because of it . |
| 14 | Claire has never seen a man in a leopardskin jockstrap before . |
| 15 | I have never seen a hunt in progress , although I recall vaguely as a child being taken to watch a Meet when I was visiting relatives in Piercebridge . |
| 16 | I 've certainly never seen a horse in Dublin . |
| 17 | For one thing , the score was by Rodgers and Hammerstein who had never seen a pantomime in their lives — such things were totally unknown on the other side of the Atlantic — and wrote music and lyrics for the show which fitted very well indeed in their repertoire that began with Oklahoma ! and went on , via such epics as South Pacific and The King And I , all the way to The Sound of Music . |
| 18 | ‘ I have never seen a cut in education spending , ’ he said . |
| 19 | You have never seen a woman in her peignoir before ? ’ |
| 20 | ‘ This is genuine Sheraton sweetie except the asshole never made a piece in his life on account he was into franchising ahead of anybody except the Pope . |
| 21 | She was blonde , like his Mandy , except unlike Mandy she had never had a chance in life . |
| 22 | She 's never had a chance in life — but she trades on her ill-luck . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've never had a winner in France and perhaps Lyric Fantasy can change that for me in the Abbaye . |
| 24 | Darlington College has never had a winner in the national finals but course leader Alan Brookfield thinks this could be the lucky year . |
| 25 | she 's never had a drink in her life and got into a car , has she ? |
| 26 | Well estate agents have never sold a house in their lives , they move paper . |
| 27 | My father died erm sixteen years ago and I was put on to tranquillizers , up until that point I had never needed a drug in my life , and I was put onto tranquillizers and I had a terrible experience ! |
| 28 | I 've never used a yardage in my life ; all I know is that it 's a 7-iron to the middle of the green . ’ |
| 29 | Stein never used a check in his action and Nannette Streicher 's action had no check until 1805 . |
| 30 | Much everyday reasoning about causes , however , seems to demand perfect relationships : ‘ Smoking does n't cause lung cancer ; the man next door to us got lung cancer and he had never smoked a cigarette in his life ’ , implying that the only cast-iron proof would be for all smokers to get lung cancer and for no non-smokers to get |