Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] never [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some situations colonies of rabbits exist in areas where they have never had the need to construct a burrow for themselves . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There was even a suggestion that I was one of Juval Aviv 's sources for the Interfor Report , although I had never met the man or even seen his report at that point . |
| 4 | Strathbeg is one of the least known and yet most delightful lochs in Scotland and I was aware of its reputation , having discovered it whilst researching my book The Trout Lochs of Scotland , although I had never fished there . |
| 5 | ‘ I like Dickon , although I 've never seen him . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed the magazine tables proffer The Economist , the Spectator and a clutch of literary magazines , although I 've never seen any of them being read . |
| 7 | They 've got the spare uniform somewhere , although I 've never seen it . |
| 8 | We had real cowboys teaching us how to use a gun although I 've never felt the need to carry a gun um , I felt like a five year old with a pistol . |
| 9 | Many people see the penis as a joke ; although I 've never got a great deal of amusement out of mine . |
| 10 | ‘ Although I 've never thought about it if I was doing a job down here . ’ |
| 11 | I would be responsible for sound , second-unit camera , and most of the stills — although I 'd never operated a movie-camera or tape-recorder in my life . |
| 12 | I 'd told her not to worry and that he was one of the lads , although I 'd never seen him before , and we were just waiting for her to go before we started the party . |
| 13 | Then , although I 'd never had any morning sickness , I began to feel pain after I 'd eaten . ’ |
| 14 | Rather like running the YMCA in fact , although I 'd never thought of it like that before . |
| 15 | Oisin , who knew a little of the theory of sorcery — ‘ Although I have never aspired to its practice , ’ he would have said modestly — knew that with the emerging of the first , the others would have gained strength and confidence . |
| 16 | They are a part of the process , although I have never signed an artist from a demo without seeing the group play live . |
| 17 | I believe that the general practitioners find a problem list more informative ( although I have never investigated this formally ) and that the copy letters in the notes make a more useful case summary than the handwritten record . |
| 18 | They were grand folk , and it 's because of them that I am not one of the antismoking lobby ( although I have never associated personally with nicotine ) . |
| 19 | OK , so I 've never seen Kurt look quite that pale before , and I 'm not sure it 's such a good idea for Courtney to be zipping about with Kurt on that hired motorbike while seven months pregnant but , hell , it 's not as if anyone 's dead . |
| 20 | They were both just records to me , so I 've never felt anything like that . ’ |
| 21 | I do n't eat prepared food myself , so I have never liked it for my terrier . |
| 22 | I know you write under the pseudonym of Ben MacLean and wish to keep your literary activities secret , so I have never seen anything wrong in taking in your mail . ’ |
| 23 | It seemed to me that the theatre I wanted to work in from time to time was the British theatre , so I have never contemplated living in America . |
| 24 | The stitches are always transferred from back to front , not side to side , so I have never encountered any problem with bias knitting . |
| 25 | There was a spattering of noise at her window that could only be thrown gravel , although she 'd never heard the sound before . |
| 26 | Although she had never said so , his instinct had told him immediately he 'd seen her with Harry that she was in love with the young man — a devastatingly handsome young man — whose manner towards Alice had been affectionate but certainly not lover-like . |
| 27 | Both parents got very emotional and threw their arms around her , although she had never felt they were very close before . |
| 28 | Isabel loved her great-grandmother 's garden , although she had never known that lady , who had expired bearing her lord a son , the present Baron 's father . |
| 29 | Alice 's voice held genuine regret , for although she had never thought Madeleine the right girl for Harry , she would have done anything possible to forward a marriage between them if she truly believed it would make him happy . |
| 30 | Although she had never allowed herself to consider it a possibility , the thought had crossed her mind that he might know something about that letter . |