Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ( Ironically , but also significantly , one is from a school which has never received a project grant and the other from a school which received a retrospective Minor grant some time before the deputy head herself took up her post . ) |
2 | I mean I 've never heard a reggae record like this , nor any other record , come to that , imagine the sort of slow , two-note bassline of De La Soul 's ‘ What 's More ’ taken back to its R&B roots , with copping guitar , honking sax and leering swagger in the rhythm . |
3 | You 've never heard the term summer walker ? |
4 | When I say that Dolores had never heard the term gig before joining the band I am not taking the piss or ridiculing her . |
5 | ‘ I know it 's silly , but I 've never outgrown a childhood tendency to travel sickness . |
6 | Even if you have never given a bottle feed yourself it is possible that the baby received one from a nurse while in the maternity ward . |
7 | ‘ If men never considered the exchange rate in precisely those terms , ’ the man wrote , ‘ then the Caprice and the Ivy would have given up on the supper trade decades ago . ’ |
8 | A MAN who complained of 17 years of hounding by the television licensing authority although he had never owned a TV set won a remarkable legal battle and £5,500 expenses yesterday . |
9 | Former Test fast bowlers Sir Richard Hadlee and Michael Holding have been made honorary life members of MCC , as have the club 's former secretary Jack Bailey , Laurance Hancock ( secretary of Staffordshire for 53 years until 1987 ) and Glamorgan stalwart Don Shepherd , who took 2174 wickets for the Welsh county but never won a Test cap . |
10 | Although karate developed in Japan , that country has never won a team world championship , whereas Great Britain has won it on no less than four occasions — a record unmatched in the history of karate . |
11 | His jockey , Peter Scudamore , has ridden more winners than any rider in history , but has never won the Gold Cup . |
12 | Pitman and McCourt four of the best but one of them has never won the Gold Cup … |
13 | Pitman and McCourt four of the best jockeys but one of them has never won the Gold Cup which one … |
14 | Great Britain have never won the World Cup but after this summer 's titanic struggle for the Ashes and blessed with home advantage , Mal Reilly 's men will never have a better chance to take the trophy . |
15 | England , like Scotland , have never won the World Cup . |
16 | Kragan did n't add that he had never trusted the newspaper proprietor who sat on the council . |
17 | The NABC has never fostered a North/South divide and the suggestion from Mr Atkinson that we would give preference to the views from southern counties , as against northern counties , is totally without foundation . |
18 | Oxfordshire has never suffered a rabies case . |
19 | One touching moment during a Love Feast in Edenderry was once when a visitor to the service , who had never attended a Love Feast before but who had felt he wished to share in it , stood and held up half the biscuit he had been given . |
20 | Although Chapman was by now a famous man , and his name was familiar to thousands who had never attended a football match , on a social level he remained as affable and unassuming as the next man . |
21 | able to take , I 've never done an industry day |
22 | ‘ Although I did n't have any live playing experience — I 'd never done the youth club/dance band/pub/club thing — I still felt that I was technically quite good , having evolved my style from playing along to records . |
23 | We had never seen a soffit ventilator before , and had only a vague idea about dry-verge ridging , but the excellent catalogues and leaflets provided most of the instructions we needed . |
24 | Angalo had found a pebble that was almost the right shape to attach to a twig with strips torn off his coat ; he 'd never seen a stone axe in his life , but he had a definite feeling that there were useful things that could be done with a stone tied to the end of a stick . |
25 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |
26 | ‘ Never seen a slave band like that afore . ’ |
27 | He had never seen a credit card , and indeed he was not looking at one now . |
28 | Having never seen a swing bridge before I wondered how the boats were going to get under it but I was soon to find out . |
29 | It is possible that the young Evelyn , who had never seen a Court masque , was easily impressed . |
30 | At first she could n't believe it ; she had never seen a man cry before . |