Example sentences of "it have never [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IBM 's personal computers business may be enormous , but it has never made very much money , and it is now more like a millstone than an asset . |
| 2 | It has never done so — when the Task Force sailed for the Falklands , Britannia was left behind . |
| 3 | If , meanwhile , another blackbird saw a species it has never seen before , it would rapidly associate this species with the mobbing calls made by its fellows . |
| 4 | ‘ I have promised that so often in the past , and it has never answered yet ! ’ |
| 5 | Coxall and Robins ’ ( 1989 , p. 309 ) apology for a Conservative-dominated press , that ‘ it has never shied away from criticising the Conservative Party or a Conservative Government ’ , is misleading . |
| 6 | It has often dithered and sometimes blundered , but it has never walked away . |
| 7 | Originally a native of Mediterranean lands , it has never adapted completely to cold , wet conditions . |
| 8 | It was a completely unique event as far as we were concerned it 'd never happened before and hopefully it 'll never happen again . |
| 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 | United Motors had already built a component plant in Dublin a few years before , at the specific request of the Chairman , but it had never operated profitably . |
| 11 | It had been repainted since the war , but , as far as she knew , it had never given forth music . |
| 12 | Except that on this day , while it hunted for flies , one frog lost its way and crawled around the side of one of the outermost petals , or possibly leaves , and saw something it had never seen before . |
| 13 | In this way the Union successfully mobilized the population to take control in a way it had never done before , and to identify and overcome both health and social problems which had not previously been tackled . |
| 14 | I looked around at the place ; I had been here before but it had never looked so huge . |
| 15 | It had never hurt before in anything but high jump but this time it hurt long jumping . |
| 16 | Good food , plenty of sleep , and the knowledge that she was really wanted and loved gave her face a serenity it had never had before . |
| 17 | It had never mattered before , this world that was too big to hold the meanings . |
| 18 | He argued that though historical materialism had satisfactorily explained the forms and conditions of human reality it had never established theoretically the validity of its own existence , never shown how it constituted not just the substance of reality but its logical form as well . |
| 19 | But the intervention of the Hammersmith and Fulham Council in this case in effect created legal history — it had never happened before . |
| 20 | It had never happened before . |
| 21 | Now , as if it had never happened before , Nicholas thanked the King , but not as the King wanted . |
| 22 | I was and it 's never gone away even though I 've put my weight back on . |
| 23 | and it 's never got really bad , the only time it got bad was |
| 24 | But the authorities at New College say it 's never happened there before . |
| 25 | It 's never happened before … well , not for a long , long time . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been here some time now and it 's never happened before . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It 's never happened before . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It 's never happened before , has it ? ’ she asked . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's never happened before , ’ Woodruffe said stiffly . |
| 30 | In fact , the work we have done together has always been very harmonious — although I imagine if we were in a sit-com at the same time we could get a bit waspish — ‘ She 's got more lines than me … but it 's never happened so far . |