Example sentences of "we [vb base] never [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ But a lad we 've never even met ? ’ he said .
2 what they are doing you see , an authorized dealer , well even a non-authorized dealer get hold of a piece of kit and then somebody say want this system , right okay , and they just have a big load of forms for maintenance agreements and all they do the dealer 'll go along and put this kit in , B T 'll come along and say yeah that conforms to regulations , sign here , the customer er sign here , the dealer send the maintenance agreement to us , we signed it , send it back , we 've never even seen it , then we turn up and find that the main control unit 's high up in the attic or in a damp cellar , in a cupboard where you ca n't see it , there 's no light and stuff like that and we 're taking jobs on like that and it you know , it 's just impossible to work on them
3 ‘ What functions ? ’ has been the response ; a spokesman for Camden , the borough with the largest number of Grade II listed buildings after Westminster , says , ‘ We 've never even had a conservation policy ? ’
4 I love Colin dearly but we 've never even discussed marriage .
5 ‘ We do n't say it 's impossible for anybody to add new motivated abilities in later life , ’ he says , ‘ but in all our research we 've never yet seen a completely new direction emerge . ’
6 But we 've never really eaten that much frozen food anyway .
7 Not to mention a massive oil crisis from which we 've never really recovered and …
8 Yeah I mean we did insert actually in the Chairman 's statement a cautionary note about the credit announcement because two years ago we had a similar increase which in fact by the time we got to the end of the year had disappeared so we view it with a lot of caution is the answer if you ask me to be more precise I ca n't because we 've never really had a set of tax increases the like of which we face now any other questions ?
9 We 've never really tried to have a proposition , ’ says Abbott .
10 But we 've never quite had to do that .
11 We 've never quite got on to first name terms , Emily and I. Even in our respective retirements .
12 So perhaps we ought to realise the fact that we 've never actually gon na get that one down .
13 As I say we know nothing about them at all , we 've never ever owned one .
14 No , I think you just wash your hands , that 's it , cos we 've done long enough and I mean from say the Sunday thing , I mean we 've never ever thought of the Sunday making thing , being a profit making thing have we ?
15 We 've never ever looked at vertical blinds before .
16 What 's av We 've never ever bought a blind .
17 Richard , 94 , and Ethel , 93 , of Malvern , Worcs. , agreed : ‘ We 've never once thought about anyone else . ’
18 Now , given that so much of that pruning has already been done and given that even given that situation we have never yet reached four percent contingent er turnover savings , I think it highly unlikely and so do the officers , that they will be achieved this year .
19 Our own experience is that we have never yet planted a congregation without each person who is married getting as clear a call to the work as their partner .
20 The Christian Church has always had a good many professing members who are rather like those disciples at Ephesus who , when asked by Paul , ‘ Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed ? ’ replied , ‘ No , we have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit ’ ( Acts 19:2 ) .
21 NINE-EIGHTEEN is the name of the Italian company which came to Ferndown for the British Women 's Open and sold designer golf shirts and T-shirts such as we have never previously seen , even in the tented village at The Open .
22 In modern linguistics , we are often told of our remarkable ability to construct meaningful sentences which we have never previously heard ; yet this is surely matched by our ability to absorb the social implications of an array of furnishing consisting of a combination which is not only almost certainly in some degree unique , but some of whose basic elements may also be new to us .
23 It will increase , as all our policies do , parental influence and parental choice in education on a scale on which we have never previously embarked in state education .
24 We have never really picked a figure , but if he wanted a certain player who was just over the amount we had in mind , we would let him have it . ’
25 We have never really had an Inquisition , never really persecuted people for their beliefs .
26 We have never quite shaken off its effects .
27 " We have never before had the honour to carry such an important representative of the United States of America to Saigon . "
28 The two of us have never really got on .
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