Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have never hated hyenas : their occasional maniacal laughter and their eerie whooping cries are among my earliest memories . |
| 2 | I really , I 've never hated people as much as I hate the teachers in this school . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd never clapped eyes on the guy before , ’ said a stunned Foulds . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | In generative phonology , a results from vowel reduction in vowels which have never received stress in the process of the application of stress rules . |
| 8 | 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 ) : |
| 9 | His father had never received compensation from the British Government — his government — for the destruction of his property by those cursed Sinn Feiners . |
| 10 | Patients in the sulphasalazine group had been maintained on the drug at a daily dose of 2 ( 2–3 ) g for 8.0 ( 1.7–2.1 ) years and had never received mesalazine . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | In religious communities and seminaries most priests never received Communion ( except on Maundy Thursday ) in a community mass , but removed themselves to celebrate on their own with a single server . |
| 13 | Nine of the group had never received sulphasalazine , the other 25 had been maintained on sulphasalazine 2 ( 2–3 ) g daily for 4.3 ( 0.2–24 ) years before mesalazine treatment . |
| 14 | ‘ He has never courted popularity . ’ |
| 15 | Unlike its East End rivals , however , Truman 's never stopped brewing at Burton , and its Black Eagle brewery there only finally closed in 1970 . |
| 16 | I have had constant new experiences , and I have never stopped learning . |
| 17 | My servility to Sam and admiration for his strength had never stopped Jerry and me being the closest of the family . |
| 18 | Joe Moss 's phone never stopped ringing . |
| 19 | These people never stopped fighting . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Claire Westwood comments , ‘ Several of the sixth-formers have said , ‘ I never realised toddlers were so demanding . |
| 22 | Mind you , Sam Snort never placed rugger buggers very high on the pecking order where horizontal jogging is concerned . |
| 23 | Cedric had been just too young for the war , and for this he had never forgiven Fate . |
| 24 | Britain appeared to have little interest in the area , Russia was preoccupied with her domestic problems , and in any case the Tsar had never forgiven Austria for her lack of support during the Crimean War . |
| 25 | Jack 's Irish blood made him sympathize with the Levellers — the Irish have never forgiven Cromwell for the Drogheda massacre , you know . |
| 26 | Morris , it seems , has never forgiven Karajan for this piece of seeming musical dissimulation which he evidently regarded , and still regards , as a moral outrage . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's never forgiven Josh for Ebbie dying the way he did . |
| 28 | Danby later insisted that he had never intended things to go " so far as to settle the Crown on the Prince of Orange " . |
| 29 | Graham Sharpe , spokesman for Hills , who cut the second favourite , Double Dutch , from 7-1 to 6-1 and Royal Square from 16-1 to 10-1 yesterday , countered by saying : ‘ We have often been criticised for including in our ante-post lists horses that trainers later said were never intended runners . |
| 30 | WHEN it was first screened in 1989 , Birds of a Feather ( Sunday , BBC1 , 8.20pm ) caused outrage , not because of the language , but because viewers had never heard women speak like that on television before . |