Example sentences of "but i have never " in BNC.
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| 1 | Female contestants are sometimes advised to wear a sanitary towel to protect the perineum from injury , but I have never known such an injury to arise . |
| 2 | There are some people who claim to be able to control an axe kick to the top of the opponent 's head , but I have never seen this done effectively enough to score . |
| 3 | I do not know how the customs people work these things out , but I have never paid import duties on these overseas postal purchases . |
| 4 | But now , it sounds crazy but I have never felt so happy . ’ |
| 5 | According to Doyle : ‘ in principle , a publishing company would marry up a lyricist with a music writer , but I have never found the opportunity or the talent to do it . ’ |
| 6 | But I have never witnessed anything so triumphantly awful as Notre Dame , Fourviere . |
| 7 | History of art A-levels seem very popular nowadays but I have never encountered anyone who is doing an A-level in the history of science . |
| 8 | I have taken engines out of cars , rebuilt them and then put them back , but I have never carried out a conversion before . |
| 9 | 1 National Trust membership card ( sounds simple , but I have never yet remembered to take it ) |
| 10 | I have caught fish ‘ on the drop ’ with leger tackle , and I have experimented with float tackle at different depths , but I have never found the slightest evidence of bream shoaling in different size layers in stillwaters . |
| 11 | There was a youth hostel but I have never joined and part of sticking with JTR was dependent on the extra comforts of hotels and B&Bs . |
| 12 | Macadamia nuts , I must confess , are one of my favourites , but I have never had to wrestle with cracking them . |
| 13 | But I have never seen a gang-fight , as such , with grown men involved . |
| 14 | Someone also presented me with an electric washer but I have never been able to use it because there is n't water in the house and I would n't be able to understand it anyway . |
| 15 | These days everyone seems to be hopping on and off jets if only to go to the Spanish holiday resorts , but I have never left these shores . |
| 16 | Some people have their own preference , of course , but I have never thought that one variation works better than any other . |
| 17 | But I have never had this opinion of Edward Wood challenged in the House of Commons . |
| 18 | My Guppies keep getting pregnant but I have never seen any fry . |
| 19 | I was a student when I met Miss B , but I have never forgotten her . |
| 20 | People say that if you do n't ask you get told more , but I have never found that to be true . |
| 21 | ‘ I know who John Thaw is of course , ’ he said , ‘ but I have never heard any gossip about him buying a house here . |
| 22 | But I have never forgotten advice that my research adviser gave me the first time that I was pursuing a dead end : ‘ It is important to recognise when to quit . ’ |
| 23 | But I have never had a disaster over 14 years and several classes per year ! |
| 24 | ‘ I have been a nurse for ten years but I have never seen a bullet wound . |
| 25 | ‘ They told me I was in Thailand with him but I have never been to Thailand in my life . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I was approached by a friend who knows Mr Gilbey but I have never met him , ’ said Mrs Ralli from the doorstep of her £500,000 mansion in Hardingham , Norfolk . |
| 27 | I 'm sure it is , but I have never put it to the test , being old fashioned . |
| 28 | I have to observe that there are some business leaders who have apparently succeeded in doing this , very frequently by forming conglomerates ; but I have never believed very much in the conglomerate . |
| 29 | It is said to drop at times to below 8 , but I have never yet lost it with 7 × 50 binoculars . |
| 30 | I have often looked for it with binoculars , but I have never been able to glimpse it even with × 20 , though my 76-mm refractor brings it out unmistakably , and with my 39-cm reflector I have no trouble in seeing the central star . |