Example sentences of "[vb base] never [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Ive never seen a ball hit from that far out , rise in a straight line ( showing the power behind it ) . |
| 2 | The byplay with Bouilhet was just teasing , the outer edge of vivid male friendship : Gustave never committed a single homosexual act in all his life . |
| 3 | Perhaps perversely I have nothing but admiration for the high-wire acrobatics of Mady Mesplé in ‘ Diapiacer mi balza il cor ’ from Magpie , but then , I 've never heard a complete version of this opera , ‘ authentic ’ or otherwise . |
| 4 | They sit in Montreal making decisions and they 've never heard a train 's call at night across the prairie . |
| 5 | You 've never heard a speed-thrash organ pop LP called ‘ Life ’ , never experienced ‘ The Beast Inside ’ 's prog rock excesses and never drifted off to the gorgeous pop of ‘ This Is How It Feels ’ . |
| 6 | I 've never heard a room go more quiet . ’ |
| 7 | Not the place to leap on if you 've never heard a single GOR song , but the dedicated and the brave newcomer will find much on ‘ Too Much Fun ’ to fall in love with . |
| 8 | I mean I 've never heard a reggae record like this , nor any other record , come to that , imagine the sort of slow , two-note bassline of De La Soul 's ‘ What 's More ’ taken back to its R&B roots , with copping guitar , honking sax and leering swagger in the rhythm . |
| 9 | This call has been said to sound like " go back , go back " , but to me it always sounds like a duck laughing ( to be honest I 've never heard a duck laughing , so I 'm probably totally wrong ) . |
| 10 | I 've never heard a dog he do n't do it to anybody else . |
| 11 | I mean I 've never heard a thing so . |
| 12 | like , like , like Lucy , I 've never heard a word come out of her mouth . |
| 13 | The result of this strategy is that I 've never missed a plane in twenty-eight years of international travel — except once . |
| 14 | I 've never missed a day 's work through illness in my life and I 'm still rushing around the country appearing in theatres and clubs . |
| 15 | I 've also got an early '60s L-series Strat and I 've never played a better Strat than that one , but I do n't use it live in case I lose it . |
| 16 | In all the time you 've played with us , we 've never played a Mystery with Christ in it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ But I warn you , I 'm a landlubber : I 've never sailed a boat in my life . |
| 18 | Then , realising that for a supposedly experienced sailor her enthusiasm was a little over the top , she added quickly and with complete honesty , ‘ I 've never sailed a boat like Seawitch before . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've never worn a waistcoat before , ’ he said with pleasure . |
| 20 | I 've never killed a patient . ’ |
| 21 | You say you 've never kissed a woman like that before . |
| 22 | He liked to tell one that he was a dilettante , ‘ I 've never written a line for publication nor put brush to water-colour , in short I never did a stroke of work , except for those few years teaching at Harvard , and I must admit that I enjoyed every moment of them — in retrospect . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You 've never written a comedy . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've never fired a gun in anger in my life . |
| 25 | We 've never made a contribution to this club . |
| 26 | I have always had women artists but I 've never made a point of it . |
| 27 | Most women artists just like to think of themselves as artists and we 've never made a point of an artist being a woman . |
| 28 | Never done I 've never made a bomb . |
| 29 | I never let my friends down , I 've never made a boob . |
| 30 | Believe me , Fran , I 've never concluded a business deal with a kiss like that ! ’ |