Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 3 | This policeman was having to give evidence and he 'd come to talk , oh I see you 've had the baby , cos he was talking to me it had happened I said , oh what did you have blah blah blah , blah blah blah , but the little devil went in the witness box , he denied about not being there on duty about putting his mac on , ooh and he 'd never clapped eyes on barrister or a solicitor and they said he 'll meet you before the case , so we had to go extra early meet this barrister and he never came and so they took us in this little room in all his wig and his gown , we got , oh what happened ? |
| 4 | He maintained he had never received replies to letters or acknowledgement of seeds but the dispatch of the eighth edition of the Dictionary ( April 1768 ) awaited direction and then , with an unusually personal note , he excuses himself , ‘ … having had the misfortune to dislocate the ankelbone of my leg above a year and a half since gone … confinement and want of usual exercise has brought many maladies upon me , but I am in hope of proper remedies to prolong life a little longer . ’ |
| 5 | Her imagination had never painted pictures like this , though , and she stole another glance at the man who held the plane steadily on its course as Mitch took his shots . |
| 6 | Frequently he paused to inspect his tail as though he had never heard noises like that before . |
| 7 | Orkney Islands Council have never developed guidelines of their own . |
| 8 | Before without really knowing it , I was just preparing for that one lesson to get through that one lesson , but partly I think as a matter of survival in this situation , because I had never taught children before and really did n't have an overview at that point . |
| 9 | One of the workers and one of the women , who 's never attended meetings of any kind before living in the refuge , want to go . |
| 10 | We have never accepted presents from the government . |
| 11 | yeah , I could n't believe it I mean you go back five years he 'd never done things like that , he erm , missed the most easiest reds and left it right over the pocket and then Stephen Hendry went on and cleared up the whole frame , got a break of over a hundred |
| 12 | They 're l lead men you know and he has er painted this and it must be something to do with these men but these drawings now , I 've never seen drawings like them |
| 13 | She 'd never seen swings like them before or since — wooden boats painted bright yellow with curlicues of red and green , where two of you sat facing each other and pulled alternately on ropes to swing yourselves higher and higher . |
| 14 | There were about two hundred and fifty cadets in residence and some of them had never seen cadets from another corps . |
| 15 | ‘ I ent never seen cakes like that afore , ’ said George . |
| 16 | I ai n't never seen jewels like that before . ’ |
| 17 | The birds were n't anything he knew and he 'd never seen toadstools like that with spots on . |
| 18 | I have never seen men in such high spirits . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Do you think , ’ said Bishop Jon , ‘ that your husband and his forefathers have never seen storms before and do n't know what standing orders to give ? |
| 20 | Evidently Francis had never made advances to his cousin . |
| 21 | Families such as the Gardners , on the other hand , never made links with outside interests but confined their activities to the moving of boats along the river . |
| 22 | I 've never had difficulties about Colin sleeping with other people . |
| 23 | so I 'd never had blokes in my class , it was really really weird |
| 24 | This is now part of the Roman Catholic rite , which has never had problems of rampant tuberculosis because of the cup . |
| 25 | Bessie 's opinions on how babies should be cared for were given freely to Carrie and duly ignored by the young mother , who was aware that Bessie had never had children of her own . |
| 26 | Funny , cos we 've never had cows in there . |
| 27 | Perhaps it would have been better for the apple if it had never had ideas above its station , if it had never started carrying around so much symbolic baggage . |
| 28 | The magazine described Mr Donovan as the boy with bleached hair , although the actor told the court he had never used chemicals on his hair — ‘ just lemon juice in the sun sometimes ’ . |
| 29 | The magazine described Mr Donovan as the boy with bleached hair , although the actor told the court he had never used chemicals on his hair — ‘ just lemon juice in the sun sometimes ’ . |
| 30 | But Oliver never played things by the rules . |