Example sentences of "they have never [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 They should have been negotiating over the location of the European monetary institute and of a subsequent European central bank in the City of London , but they have never even raised those questions , despite the fact that , of all the countries of the European Community , the location of the central bank has much the greatest importance for Britain .
2 Not uncommonly , indeed , they will speak of things which they have never before told anyone .
3 I think this is probably true of the Metropolitan Police ; they have never really allowed any fundamental research on any sensitive issue .
4 To put it another way , they have never really allowed its truth to blossom into fullness of life .
5 Even though they may have worked and set up home separately , they have never quite left the role of dependent daughter .
6 And those that do , grow up in a sub-culture that is a disgrace to England ; unable to read or write , born to crime as a way of life , most of them have never even seen the inside of a church .
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