Example sentences of "have never [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I have never met editor Malcolm Fillmore , but I shall recognise him when I see him : pale of countenance , slight of figure .
2 Perhaps , among the 75 per cent who may have heard of the CAB but have never sought assistance , there are many who would come to a bureau if they could .
3 I have never worn Chunni over my head so I just wore it round my neck .
4 I have had constant new experiences , and I have never stopped learning .
5 Our eyes have been closed for many centuries , yet the sages and physicians of the East have never lost sight of the reality of the WHOLE .
6 I have never played golf time .
7 I have never advocated violence in my life . ’
8 Though I have never tasted water contaminated with heavy algal growth , I can report that ferruginous water is decidedly bitter !
9 I have never felt discrimination in England because I am Italian .
10 Few women brought up in India can truthfully say that they have never felt Sharam .
11 I have never liked gardening and nowadays do virtually none .
12 I have never liked opinion polling or pollsters .
13 I have never liked shrillness , particularly when allied to Liverpudlian vowels and a cock-teaser 's soul .
14 The High Elves of Ulthuan have never developed gunpowder technology as have the men of the Old World and Dwarfs — indeed they have never needed to do so as their marksmanship with the bow is superior to that of lesser races .
15 Its posters claim to ‘ defend Islam , Islamic rule , constitutional rule , support the deprived and to prevent the dominance of capitalism and those who have never suffered poverty ’ .
16 If you have never skied langlauf before and want to have a go , there are ‘ Try it out weekends ’ in the Swiss resort of Kandersteg — a lovely old village in the Bernese Oberland .
17 In generative phonology , a results from vowel reduction in vowels which have never received stress in the process of the application of stress rules .
18 The strength of any particular syllable can be measured by counting up the number of times an s symbol occurs above it ; the levels in the sentence shown above can be diagrammed like this ( leaving out syllables that have never received stress at any level ) :
19 I have never seen bow waves like these .
20 The two have never seen eye to eye apparently and although some papers called him a hothead , Horton insists he was n't going to have a go at the ref , who was given a police escort back to the dressing rooms .
21 I have never eaten brawn — no doubt I should do so — so can not comment on it except to say that it is made from the pig 's head which is simmered with herbs and spices ; the resulting meat is set in the naturally produced aspic .
22 From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such .
23 But the concern , in respect of the early years , is that we have never achieved consensus over what an appropriate early years curriculum should be ; besides which , provision is so varied nationally that some children are evidently disadvantaged from an early age .
24 Primary encopresis These children have never achieved bowel control possibly due to faulty or inconsistent training .
25 ‘ But we have never made door to door collections , so we know this man has nothing to do with us , ’ she said .
26 Our other dogs have never shown aggression towards other dogs .
27 But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’
28 Somervillians have never lacked energy , as was made clear by the first of ourJills of All Trades , Ruth Spalding .
29 Nothing in European life , even in Albania , retains that capacity to shock , even to shock people who have never left West Cumberland in their lives .
30 A good many women have never experienced orgasm at all , although this is generally due to personal impediment or lack of expertise and consideration on their partner 's part .
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