Example sentences of "never [vb pp] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder that letters addressed to people here had never received an answer . |
| 2 | You know I 've never , I 've never batted an eyelid have I ? |
| 3 | Moreover , Gosteleradio claimed that Interfax had never honoured an agreement to remit 50 per cent of its earnings to Radio Moscow . |
| 4 | She had never considered an alternative to Yelton . |
| 5 | R.L. Soale 's ‘ Peace Perfect Peace ’ ( above ) , is a more typical entry to the marquetry classes , and won the Jack Fletcher Trophy for the best piece in the Secondary category , for marquetarians who have never won an award . |
| 6 | Never won an argument |
| 7 | Console yourself with the knowledge that the following never won an Oscar : Alfred Hitchcock , Charlie Chaplin , the Marx Brothers , Greta Garbo , Fred Astaire , Lillian Gish , Kirk Douglas , Cary Grant , Mickey Rooney , Maurice Chevalier , Barbary Stanwyck . |
| 8 | The ex-British champ has never sat an L-test . |
| 9 | I have never visited an apothecary 's shop ! ’ |
| 10 | She could n't help thinking how different he was from Giles , who had never missed an opportunity to pressure her , using compliments and charm like velvet hammers in an effort to get him what he wanted . |
| 11 | In a memorandum written for the Commons ' Energy Committee , Andrew Holmes , the editor of Power in Europe , wrote , ‘ In the course of my work as a journalist , I have met a few environmentalists who can envisage some kind of long-term accommodation with the nuclear power industry , If waste disposal and other problems are satisfactorily solved ; I have never met an environmentalist who was not wholly and implacably opposed to the FBR . ’ |
| 12 | I 've never met an Elaine Webb , I do not remember your birth , and I 'm sure I did n't deliver you ! ’ |
| 13 | Well , Shannon had never met an idol yet who did n't possess feet of clay , and there was nothing to suggest he was the exception . |
| 14 | I 'd never met an off-worlder who knew where they were , or cared . |
| 15 | However , his allegiance to the cause and principles of international modernism never comprehended an allegiance to Ezra Pound as a modernist master . |
| 16 | Each person has never sought an honour or payment for their selfless work , preferring quietly to get on with the job . |
| 17 | ‘ I have never sought an honour in my life — I just did what I could for my home village where I was born and raised . |
| 18 | I imagine all these Madness fans have never felt an emotion in their life . |
| 19 | For twenty three years I lived in England , and with the exception of the Falklands Conflict , I have never felt an emotion for my country like the Americans experience for theirs . |
| 20 | Why he 's never done an interview |
| 21 | able to take , I 've never done an industry day |
| 22 | I have never seen an avocet in Cornwall , but I 'm told that this rare and unique bird has been spotted on these marshes . |
| 23 | we had some carbonated drinks factory I said well they they asked me if I 'd go over there and I said I ca n't work in there I 'm allergic to oranges and he said oh bloody or I 've never seen an orange , do n't worry , you know it 's all chemicals ! |
| 24 | ‘ I have never seen an England bowler swing so much a ball that is 60 overs old . |
| 25 | I 've seen a lot o' different things and that like ; but I 've never seen an owd cow dragging a tumbril ! ’ |
| 26 | He looks like he 's never seen an iron . ’ |
| 27 | He was wearing a disreputable pair of jeans that looked as though they 'd never seen an iron , and a grey shirt , the sleeves rolled back as if it were summer . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , I 've never seen an android like that before . |
| 29 | Everyone , young and old , was very impatient to see the prisoners ; most of us , including me , had never seen an Englishman before . |
| 30 | He had been wonderful about her family whom he did not pretend to like , never made an issue of her going there and he let her run on about them when she got home . |