Example sentences of "we have never [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd never even heard anything by them when we started . |
| 2 | ‘ But a lad we 've never even met ? ’ he said . |
| 3 | what they are doing you see , an authorized dealer , well even a non-authorized dealer get hold of a piece of kit and then somebody say want this system , right okay , and they just have a big load of forms for maintenance agreements and all they do the dealer 'll go along and put this kit in , B T 'll come along and say yeah that conforms to regulations , sign here , the customer er sign here , the dealer send the maintenance agreement to us , we signed it , send it back , we 've never even seen it , then we turn up and find that the main control unit 's high up in the attic or in a damp cellar , in a cupboard where you ca n't see it , there 's no light and stuff like that and we 're taking jobs on like that and it you know , it 's just impossible to work on them |
| 4 | ‘ What functions ? ’ has been the response ; a spokesman for Camden , the borough with the largest number of Grade II listed buildings after Westminster , says , ‘ We 've never even had a conservation policy ? ’ |
| 5 | I love Colin dearly but we 've never even discussed marriage . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | But we 've never really eaten that much frozen food anyway . |
| 8 | Not to mention a massive oil crisis from which we 've never really recovered and … |
| 9 | Yeah I mean we did insert actually in the Chairman 's statement a cautionary note about the credit announcement because two years ago we had a similar increase which in fact by the time we got to the end of the year had disappeared so we view it with a lot of caution is the answer if you ask me to be more precise I ca n't because we 've never really had a set of tax increases the like of which we face now any other questions ? |
| 10 | ‘ We 've never really tried to have a proposition , ’ says Abbott . |
| 11 | But we 've never quite had to do that . |
| 12 | We 've never quite got on to first name terms , Emily and I. Even in our respective retirements . |
| 13 | So perhaps we ought to realise the fact that we 've never actually gon na get that one down . |
| 14 | As I say we know nothing about them at all , we 've never ever owned one . |
| 15 | No , I think you just wash your hands , that 's it , cos we 've done long enough and I mean from say the Sunday thing , I mean we 've never ever thought of the Sunday making thing , being a profit making thing have we ? |
| 16 | We 've never ever looked at vertical blinds before . |
| 17 | What 's av We 've never ever bought a blind . |
| 18 | Richard , 94 , and Ethel , 93 , of Malvern , Worcs. , agreed : ‘ We 've never once thought about anyone else . ’ |
| 19 | We had never consciously allocated days to each other ; it had just turned out that we had grabbed them and put our stamp on them . |
| 20 | As billetees , we lived en famille with people we had never previously met , who did not want our company , and who did not know what we were doing in their towns . |
| 21 | If we were to come across an object the like of which we had never before encountered , we would be in no position to determine whether it was an artefact or not , or to conclude with certainty that it had actually been designed and made by human beings . |
| 22 | Now , given that so much of that pruning has already been done and given that even given that situation we have never yet reached four percent contingent er turnover savings , I think it highly unlikely and so do the officers , that they will be achieved this year . |
| 23 | Our own experience is that we have never yet planted a congregation without each person who is married getting as clear a call to the work as their partner . |
| 24 | The Christian Church has always had a good many professing members who are rather like those disciples at Ephesus who , when asked by Paul , ‘ Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed ? ’ replied , ‘ No , we have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit ’ ( Acts 19:2 ) . |
| 25 | NINE-EIGHTEEN is the name of the Italian company which came to Ferndown for the British Women 's Open and sold designer golf shirts and T-shirts such as we have never previously seen , even in the tented village at The Open . |
| 26 | In modern linguistics , we are often told of our remarkable ability to construct meaningful sentences which we have never previously heard ; yet this is surely matched by our ability to absorb the social implications of an array of furnishing consisting of a combination which is not only almost certainly in some degree unique , but some of whose basic elements may also be new to us . |
| 27 | It will increase , as all our policies do , parental influence and parental choice in education on a scale on which we have never previously embarked in state education . |
| 28 | ‘ We have never really picked a figure , but if he wanted a certain player who was just over the amount we had in mind , we would let him have it . ’ |
| 29 | We have never really had an Inquisition , never really persecuted people for their beliefs . |
| 30 | We have never quite shaken off its effects . |