Example sentences of "have never [adv] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | C. P. Snow had been a scientist at Christ 's College , Cambridge before he turned to fiction ; William Golding , a Salisbury schoolteacher who gave up teaching with the success of Lord of the Flies , has never exactly written an academic fiction , but The Spire ( 1964 ) is about the enclosed scholastic world of medieval architecture . |
| 2 | Some western experts believe that Russia has never properly counted the exact amount of nuclear material it possesses . |
| 3 | But performance alone has never yet ensured the job of a French nationalised industry chairman . |
| 4 | To this day the party has never quite healed the deep wounds left by what remains probably its most traumatic internal crisis . |
| 5 | He thinks that , unlike its competitors , British industry has never quite understood the nature , or the importance , of research and development . |
| 6 | Despite the electricity generated on parts of ‘ The Moneyspyder ’ and to some extend on ‘ Wait A Minute ’ ( particularly the hit-that-never was , ‘ Theme From Starsky and Hutch ’ ) , James has never quite harnessed the fury of his old band to his all-consuming love of jazz . |
| 7 | Despite the electricity generated on parts of ‘ The Moneyspyder ’ and to some extend on ‘ Wait A Minute ’ ( particularly the hit-that-never was , ‘ Theme From Starsky and Hutch ’ ) , James has never quite harnessed the fury of his old band to his all-consuming love of jazz . |
| 8 | Instead of facing the music at Wembley on September 9 , Taylor 's team will play for expenses only on a Spanish Second Division ground that holds only 25,000 spectators and has never before staged a full international match . |
| 9 | But although he now runs a hotel chain with 160 properties in 47 countries , he has never actually managed a hotel . |
| 10 | For some enterprising footballers like Celtic 's Harry Hood or Aberdeen 's Willie Miller , the pub is a business opportunity run to the highest standards , but for others it can be either a modest earner , an extension of their drinking or a desperate attempt to grab a livelihood from the cinders of football , an industry that has never fully protected the talent it exploits . |
| 11 | But H&C has never really addressed the question of why these diverse businesses should be together . |
| 12 | It seems that Mr Stringer has never really enjoyed a close relationship with the supporters since , but that could all change at Hillsborough tomorrow afternoon . |
| 13 | Though Page is a very fine photographer , he has never really bettered the work he did in Vietnam . |
| 14 | Having been waited on hand and foot for most of his life and had people jump whenever he called , he has never really had the opportunity to be anything else . |
| 15 | I 'd never even noticed the one next door , but the herb must have come from that |
| 16 | Actually , Brix wrote that , she 'd never even heard The Stooges . ’ |
| 17 | He 'd never even seen the wedding-dress the boy had mentioned . |
| 18 | fuck you you know , I mean , he 'd never even met the girl before , he said it 's very you know distressful and demoralizing |
| 19 | I 'd never even held a tiny baby let alone changed a nappy or supervised bath time . |
| 20 | She 'd never before seen a carpet so thick that it showed vacuuming lines , like a lawn . |
| 21 | She 'd never really understood the meaning behind the adage — until now . |
| 22 | I 'd never really explored the bandit country north of Peckham but at least there were plenty of vehicles around to cover me . |
| 23 | You know I 'd never really valued the the erm the truth in that term , straight heads do definitely think very differently . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd never really had a guitar hero before then . |
| 25 | Others claim to have never really supported the incorrect view in the first place or , if they did , it was only to show that it was inconsistent . |
| 26 | I 've never yet met a claimant who could afford a television licence . |
| 27 | Yeah , I have worked all my life in various jobs and I 've never yet met a man who hated me nor have I hated any man , and I think there must be many women here who think the same thing . |
| 28 | I 've never yet met a child who did n't like chips |
| 29 | ‘ We do n't say it 's impossible for anybody to add new motivated abilities in later life , ’ he says , ‘ but in all our research we 've never yet seen a completely new direction emerge . ’ |
| 30 | Again , this is a rule that can be broken , but I 've never yet seen a design with more than two needles tucking side by side . |