Example sentences of "'ve never [verb] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've never heard his surname , he 's just little Nick as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 2 | ‘ But I 've never liked your mother and I never shall . ’ |
| 3 | Secondly , in an exchange like the following ( from Lyons , 1977a : 668 ) : ( 94 ) A : I 've never seen him B : That 's a lie the pronoun that does not seem to be anaphoric ( unless it is held that it refers to the same entity that A 's utterance does , i.e. a proposition or a truth value ) ; nor does it quite seem to be discourse-deictic ( it refers not to the sentence but , perhaps , to the statement made by uttering that sentence ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Anyway , I 've never seen her smoke . ’ |
| 5 | And we 've never seen his kids . |
| 6 | I 've never seen your house . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ You 've never seen our house , ’ said Tony . |
| 8 | We 've never curtailed our lending policy for the right transaction . |
| 9 | They 've never called me Harry since that time . |
| 10 | Mrs Phipps gave Maggie a cold look and said , ‘ Why is it yer 've never 'ad your balloon up , Maggie ? ’ |
| 11 | er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something |
| 12 | ‘ You 've never met my sister Kate , have you ? ’ |
| 13 | I did n't know that they could , but I 'd always sworn to her that I would never involve her in any way and I 've never broken my word . |
| 14 | I 've never lost my belief in myself . |
| 15 | He is dead now , but I 've never forgotten his description of how he had felt as the German bombers came in from Norway , picking the scattered merchant ships off , the sound of the bombs , and the cold , always the cold . |
| 16 | and I 've never washed it hand wash it . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've never mentioned your boyfriend before , ’ Deana observed . |
| 18 | If he 's trusted me I 've never asked him to , and I 've never promised him fealty . |
| 19 | I 've never discussed my family with David Fairfax . |
| 20 | It could be that you 've never taken your family abroad on holiday , so you set yourself a little objective , that in two years ' time , I want to take them all , even if it 's a damn package deal on a flight to Tenerife , do it , will you feel good , will the family enjoy it ? |
| 21 | It may seem that I 've never taken my title seriously , but below the skin I have great respect for it , and for this house too and the men who have gone before me who made it . |
| 22 | I 've never had my place searched before . ’ |
| 23 | The woman was definitely shocked , and by the fact that I 've never bathed my child . |