Example sentences of "it have never [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the church 's credit it has never seriously attempted to rewrite this side of its history . |
| 2 | At the time , as I recall , it was generally thought that Leavis had had the better of things , partly because he made his a personal attack , and dealt Snow 's reputation as a novelist , which was then high , a blow from which it has never really recovered . |
| 3 | As a proper noun standing for the state of being modern it has never really caught on as a popular word in everyday speech . |
| 4 | Since the failure of ZTT and Sputnik particularly , it has never really seemed likely that our own spiky tarts could share the limelight with the outright MOR . |
| 5 | But it has never really shown that it has any new ideas about where it should end up . |
| 6 | Gorbad Ironclaw was one of the most successful Orc leaders of all time : his campaign of destruction raged across the Empire and left the region of Solland so devastated that it has never fully recovered . |
| 7 | It had never yet had as its leader someone who represented one of the more extreme parties in the Church — never at least since the days of Archbishop Laud which ended in the archbishop 's head being cut off . |
| 8 | By means of an unprecedented policy of increasing its manufacturing efficiency through technology , and putting pressure on South Asia to export raw cotton , a trade which it had never previously engaged in , at the expense of calico , which was subject to high import duties , Britain was able to turn the tide against India , and later to flood that area with cheap cotton goods . |
| 9 | This gave it an influence among the Middle classes which it had never previously enjoyed , while allowing it to maintain the tenuous but important industrial base which it had been creating in the 1920s . |
| 10 | It had never properly mastered the art of sitting on humans . |
| 11 | It had never even occurred to her to wonder why the land where the cottage had stood was still empty . |
| 12 | Dedicated , in broad terms , to the regeneration of national pride and honour through strength — the notion that it had never perceptibly degenerated was overlooked — the CSA would specifically oppose the Nantucket Treaty root and branch , and demand its repudiation in Congress . |
| 13 | It had never really taken to the concept of death . |
| 14 | It had never really occurred to me to put things in those terms but I can see what he meant and to an extent he was partly right . |
| 15 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 16 | It had never once crossed his mind that she would take exception to what he had done . |