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

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1 ‘ Smith seems determined to tell me what I want for Roy Aitken , when in fact he has never asked me .
2 He has never asked me to read many putts ; he 's such a good reader of greens , and he says a professional golfer should putt by feel .
3 ‘ Although I tended not to write about her once we got to know each other , she has never asked me not to publish anything .
4 ‘ Stan Flashman has never asked me to come back , ’ said Fry ‘ I just turn up .
5 She has never asked me to leave my wife and children because she knows the pain of divorce .
6 " He has never asked me to go at this time of night before , " she whispered .
7 Now the Times has never asked me to write a leading article announcing that I have some doubts about the quantum theory
8 Indeed , it had been on roach trips that I have found most of my bream swims in the past and although I 'm a roach man first and foremost , a splendid , clean seven pound river bream has never given me cause for complaint !
9 There is a tiny glass bead in the door , one of those squint-through devices where you check the daily rapist , but since the landlord has never seen me before I am content to stand there looking serious , like an estate agent with news .
10 The LP in question has never made me personally want to kill cops , but it 's made me think about police brutality .
11 Old Wix , of course , has never forgiven me .
12 That interfering old cow has never liked me .
13 My daughter-in-law has never liked me .
14 And you see there 's no permanent fence to the fields and so therefore I could put gates up at that road if I wanted to , but the Council has never consulted me about going to look at it , or going over my road .
15 ‘ It has good ale , and the landlord has never cheated me yet . ’
16 As for the sight of blood , that has never overset me . ’
17 His father could only say falteringly that ‘ My conscience has never allowed me to influence two people to marry . ’
18 ‘ As it has never impressed me either , you can pretend that I am normal and address me by my name .
19 Ann de Stratford ( Mrs Seed ) echoes this sentiment : ‘ I consider myself to be extremely fortunate to have a very happy marriage to someone who has never considered me as anything but an equal .
20 Mrs Webb has never paid me .
21 Mrs Gracie gave me some ; he has never paid me a penny .
22 Training alone has never bothered me at all , but it 's nice to be able to go down the pub for a good chinwag after a session . ’
23 Treading on graves has never bothered me , but this seemed different .
24 Since I since I left school and I was able to afford my own clothes and I knew that erm a responsibility for my own clothing was on my my own shoulders , it has never bothered me since , for myself .
25 Her niece added : ‘ My aunt has never blamed me . ’
26 Even the fact that disappointed old toss-pots — unable to grapple with the idea that people once enjoyed themselves without getting drunk , vomiting and hitting one another — still react to the Sixties , as a notion , with comical indignation has never convinced me that there was anything special about that time .
27 My mum has never told me to have a goal .
28 I always reply , ‘ It 's the Sixties for you now , dear , so you get out there and make a wally of yourself ’ — and he has never let me down in that respect , I am glad to say .
29 The scene has never left me .
30 This has never failed me . ’
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