Example sentences of "never [vb pp] an [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have never sought an honour in my life — I just did what I could for my home village where I was born and raised . |
| 2 | I imagine all these Madness fans have never felt an emotion in their life . |
| 3 | I have never seen an avocet in Cornwall , but I 'm told that this rare and unique bird has been spotted on these marshes . |
| 4 | I could say I 've never had an illness in me life and whatever ca n't I ? |
| 5 | I have never bought an aspidistra in my life , and I do n't know how they accumulate on the roof — offerings , perhaps , from the garden-boy who looks after it ? |
| 6 | I 've never timed an egg in my life . |
| 7 | And David Evans , all white and stammering , do n't you tell me my father 's a bloody animal I 've got to kick out of the way , and G.P. saying I 've never hurt an animal in my life , you can always make out a case for hurting human beings , but human animals deserve every sympathy . |
| 8 | The Formalists ' preoccupation with form derived from their preoccupation with the specificity of literariness and never constituted an end in itself . |