Example sentences of "have never [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ But I am allowed to say I was deeply disappointed , because he let things go on which I 've never seen before in my time back in England . |
| 32 | Stopped , just for five minutes , just to have a quick look , and now here you are , in charge of the stall of a woman you do n't know , a woman you 've never seen before in your life , and all because someone called Harry was n't to get away with something — And that man with blue eyes was watching her again . |
| 33 | I 've never gone along with that theory . |
| 34 | ‘ And you 've never grown out of it , have you ? |
| 35 | I mean , when we lost to Sunderland in the 73 FA Cup , they 've never let up about it since , but noone mentions MUFC losing to second division Sheff Wednesday in the 1991 League Cup ! |
| 36 | ‘ At one point I thought about stopping , ’ Rasmussen said , ‘ but that would have been a first for me , because I 've never dropped out of a marathon . ’ |
| 37 | This is usually because they 've never thought much about Christianity and the only opinions that they have got are ones that they 've picked up from their parent(s) or the TV . |
| 38 | ‘ Honestly , I was very interested ; I 've never thought much about the Roman invasion , but you bring it to life . ’ |
| 39 | You 've never got up to your proper weight again since the — since — since you — you know . ’ |
| 40 | I 'm ever so disappointed that I 've not been to Yugoslavia , I wanted to go to Dubrovnik , you know , it 's been on the sort of list but I 've never got round to it . |
| 41 | Introducing a lot of things they 've never had before in their lives I 'm afraid to say . |
| 42 | Not the police — I 've never looked up to them . |
| 43 | I 've never looked forward to new stuff from any band as much as I do from the Mondays . |
| 44 | I 've never looked right through it . |
| 45 | ‘ I 've never bothered much about Blanche 's Prowler and that sort of thing — it did n't seem to matter who it was , only that she thought something existed — but you 've stirred something up — ’ |
| 46 | She had never travelled alone through the forest at night before . |
| 47 | Tilda 's respect for her sister , whom she had never seen before in the possession of so much money , reduced her almost to silence ; in a hoarse whisper she asked whether they were going to get the records straight away . |
| 48 | A tall lady in dark blue velvet , with a string of agates round her neck and a golden diadem in her hair ; a lady Isabella had never seen before in her year at the court of Gwynedd . |
| 49 | ( Hence , notably in ‘ Gerontion ’ , Eliot 's ability to approximate and even conform to Jacobean blank verse , yet to depart from it smoothly when he pleased. ) Pound 's verse on the contrary was , at least after Homage to Sextus Propertius , free , not ‘ freed ’ : the rhythms that he sought and attained either had never appeared before in the language , or else had not appeared there for many centuries . |
| 50 | I felt a little ashamed that I had never cared enough for any of my father 's relatives to give even a thought to their reactions to the prospect of an irregular addition to the family . |
| 51 | Verona was far away and I had never lived away from home ; besides , I was not sure that my parents had ever contemplated the possibility that I might do so . |
| 52 | She had never gone back to the beach . |
| 53 | But the tragedy is she could have known those blessings all through those years , if she had never left if she had never gone down to Moab . |
| 54 | He might still only be a juvenile who had never flown freely on the wind but he felt he had done nothing to warrant the abuse and fury of an eagle whose name he did not even know . |
| 55 | Nothing that I later ate in a restaurant was as good as our dinner , the finale being a ‘ tender coconut ’ pudding , a dish I had never eaten anywhere in the tropics . |
| 56 | So , in the winter evenings , they would draw the curtains and watch The Sound of Music or Bridge over the River Kwai and feel as though they had never moved out of Twickenham . |
| 57 | His deep voice held an intensity of feeling that Isabel had never imagined even in her most private dreams . |
| 58 | She would go off alone for long walks over the cliffs — something she had never done before in winter . |
| 59 | Her soft blue eyes hardened as they had never done before in her life and she met his gaze head-on . |
| 60 | By the time Maggie had to go back to London they had never felt closer in warmth , even happiness . |