Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [pron] have never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cool cream , and the expert manipulation of her dancing fingers produced a hard-on like he 'd never had before . |
| 2 | There were thousands of paparazzi and fans because they 'd never had a world premiere in Houston before . |
| 3 | For the Vicar died as a child , who retains his innocence because he has never gained any experience . |
| 4 | He says he almost refused to accept the card because he had never come across one before . |
| 5 | She did n't know the colour of his eyes because she had never looked into them . |
| 6 | These children had n't learnt to be afraid of animals because they had never heard of Earth , the Burning , or the Book of Remembering . |
| 7 | There 's too much hype connected to most beauty products so I 've never become a slave to any particular shampoo . |
| 8 | In some situations colonies of rabbits exist in areas where they have never had the need to construct a burrow for themselves . |
| 9 | Hydroelectric schemes and dams , sometimes ill-conceived and subsequently damaging to the environment ; roads and cultivation ; forest clearance , often to make a quick profit : all these and many more ‘ improvements ’ drove the elephant into areas where it had never lived before . |
| 10 | They say young monkeys brought up apart from their parents have no confidence in sexual matters because they have never observed the adults making love . |
| 11 | His classmates had called him a sissie because he had never dared to dirty himself by climbing a wall or joining in any of their rough-and-tumble games . |
| 12 | I remembered this recently with all these people falling from express trains but did n't think it could be the same on local lines as I had never heard anyone complain before . |
| 13 | The best way to practise your tiling skills if you 've never done any before if by covering just a small area such as a washbasin splashback , where setting out the tiles so they are centred on the area concerned is a simple job , and you have the minimum of tile cutting to do . |
| 14 | He was spending money like I 'd never seen . |
| 15 | Do n't feel a failure if you 've never had a boyfriend or girlfriend . |
| 16 | No , I mean , strangely enough that was one of the things that almost put me off the relationship in the first place because I 'd never had any desire to be a mother . |
| 17 | Having been a soldier in the First World War , he really knows what he is writing about and is a great contrast to some of the pretentious poets who preach about war while they have never seen any violence in their entire lives . |
| 18 | Tears had run on his cheeks as she had never seen tears coming from an adult man before . |
| 19 | This came as a surprise to the band as they had never agreed to play the concert at all and they immediately issued a statement to this effect , fearing that many of their fans were being lured into buying tickets for a Smiths free event . |
| 20 | I think it 's about , I do n't know whether it 's three or four , these men in the radio tower which at that day cos you 'd never had a , a radio tower . |
| 21 | Most Christians had a strong reserve towards that polytheism that pervaded society , which is not to say that there were not quiet compromisers , like the Christians of southern Spain early in the fourth century who held official cultic positions in the worship of Jupiter , or the bishop of Troy who could painlessly apostatize under Julian because he had never ceased to pray to the sun-god . |
| 22 | I liked the experience because I had never done it . |
| 23 | Erm well she 's she 's a grant because she 's never had a grant before . |
| 24 | Britain has been denied this freedom because it has never had a truly commercial broadcasting environment . |
| 25 | A MAN who complained of 17 years of hounding by the television licensing authority although he had never owned a TV set won a remarkable legal battle and £5,500 expenses yesterday . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | No , I think he 's , I said to Robert I 've got quite a good streak cos I 've never seen Sally |
| 28 | In the Old Testament Book of Job , Satan questioned the integrity of Job 's faith in God because he had never suffered . |
| 29 | Camille , of course , did not care a bit since she had never felt the need of such things . |
| 30 | He 'd be much more a man if he 'd never met you . ’ |