Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [pron] [vb base] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although I have occasionally considered a larger tank in the house ( I have a 48″ × 15″ × 15″ ) , accommodating it would involve so much disruption that I have never bitten the bullet . |
| 2 | IT MAY surprise readers of this column that I have never in my life voted Conservative at a general election . |
| 3 | Some violence is , of course , sheer unadulterated sadism with an accompanying orgiastic delight in hurting and remember that we all have a sadistic capacity and there are not many people so out of touch with the darker , deeper aspects of their human nature that they have never indulged a sadistic fantasy . |
| 4 | If you are going for a job that you have never done before , either from necessity or because you are looking for a change of direction , you should take care to prepare for this question by listing all the experience and personal qualities you have which suit you for the job . |
| 5 | Within the frame that we have never left , Dublin , and which we meet again in the opening sentence , is to be enacted strange as the dreaming that permeates it , Joyce 's relation to his languages , to language . |
| 6 | This is the sad thing in my life that I have never been in contact with my grandchildren . |
| 7 | And where are all those that are in the book that we have never seen ? |
| 8 | And then I 'm going to make you say my name in a way that you 've never said it before , ’ he told her huskily . |
| 9 | A stranger coming in to the house that you 've never seen before |
| 10 | If you eat the right foods and take some exercise you will begin to understand and know your body better and you will be able to discern something that is just a muscular ache from carrying heavy shopping from a pain that you have never encountered before . |
| 11 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 12 | So perhaps we ought to realise the fact that we 've never actually gon na get that one down . |
| 13 | More recently the rapid increase in the wealth of the Japanese , their greater consumption of diamonds and the fact that they have never been so attached to gold as the peoples of the west have led to a sharp increase in their use of platinum for jewellery . |
| 14 | Apart from the fact that I 've never known her dig up a weed or pick a single daffodil , she simply is n't cut out for that kind of work . ’ |
| 15 | But the fact that I 've never been to England before does n't make me a complete bumpkin . |
| 16 | Soon I 'll have enough money for a really powerful crossbow , and that I 'm certainly looking forward to ; it 'll help make up for the fact that I 've never been able to persuade my father to buy a rifle or a shotgun that I could use sometimes . |
| 17 | The woman was definitely shocked , and by the fact that I 've never bathed my child . |
| 18 | My continuing admiration for his work is not diminished by the fact that I have never received it , nor did I really expect it . |