Example sentences of "never had [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He never had much enthusiasm for making money .
2 The Communist Party never had much influence on Tyneside other than among seamen .
3 Dawn Run ( twice ) Street Angel and Atha Cliath were all Mullins winners there but he never had much luck in the National .
4 Although she was penniless , she managed to get back to England : Margery never had much difficulty in finding people who would give her money to go a long , long way away .
5 She never had much time for me before . ’
6 She 'd been a sort of feminist before it became fashionable ; never had much time for all that sisterly stuff , but she was positive she was as good as any man and she 'd prove it …
7 ‘ I never had much time for him when he was young , but I never guessed he 'd do anything as rotten as this ! ’
8 He never had much regard for the damage drinking could cause him , yet oddly enough he did about others .
9 In any event he never had much stomach for serious campaigning .
10 I never had one bone in it , have you ?
11 The father was on for the whole of the second act of The Hooded Owl , and never had that part of the play passed as slowly as it did that evening .
12 It 's all so easy for him , perhaps that 's why he squandered his talent — he never had that period of garret starvation that seems to foster genius . ’
13 Social workers say they never had enough evidence of maltreatment to go to court for a care order .
14 It was when he attempted to argue , ‘ I would n't be bothered if I never had another ride in the National , ’ that he began to give himself away .
15 You will probably tell me that you never had 1,000 farthings of your own in the world , but , prisoner , that makes no difference .
16 She sang as well as she could , hitting the right notes — she never had any problem with that — but it was pretty dreadful singing , so lifeless and uninspired , not the way she had been singing during the weeks before Gesner 's arrival .
17 And I never had any problem at all when I was there but some of the keepers had .
18 I always tried to understand the man and I never had any problems with him .
19 I never had any feelings of anti-Britishness .
20 John , however , had no sexual dealings with women ( although he always , from schooldays on , had close female friends ) ; Hanns told me that John never had any doubt about where his inclinations lay .
21 Shaun was more difficult as a personality , although I never had any fights with him myself .
22 What kinda religion is it that would encourage the parent to shelter the child from any outside influences and punish it by putting it out in a world you never had any way of learning about ? ’
23 ‘ I never had any fight with you , Luke .
24 at the start , but as things went on , and just the fact that we never had any talks between the union and the management .
25 First , there were those 18 individuals who never had any contact with the Drugs Council .
26 And he never had any hesitation in using his reputation to reach the most unapproachable people personally if he thought that conservation would benefit as a result .
27 Jakki Brambles never had any ambitions to be a disc jockey .
28 I never had any thoughts of being killed or anything . ’
29 Oppressive parents , over-close siblings and a stifling family atmosphere were regarded , for example , as causative factors in schizophrenia , and relatives — rightly — deeply resented a theory which never had any foundation in hard research evidence .
30 I do n't think he lay down for quite some time though as he never had any shavings in his mane or tail for weeks but at least he could move about and that relieved quite a few of his problems .
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