Example sentences of "have never [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In 1967 Ron Gorchov dreamed up a uniquely curved and hinged frame to support the canvas on which he paints and in all the years since then he has never wavered from its use , though it has appeared in a wide variety of sizes and variations .
2 It has never wavered and has consistently fought ever since for the adoption of this method .
3 Take a look at Middlesbrough 's travelling support it has never wavered and it has never let the club down , frequently imposing its vocal superiority at grounds from Goodison to Gigg Lane .
4 Laing has never felt that being a compassionate employer has been at odds with doing the right thing commercially .
5 Why Ms Estefan has never felt better
6 Powell has never felt worse than the year after he won , when he fell on Stearsby .
7 But it has been a rough 18 months for him and there is still a gauntness about him , even if he does claim he has never felt fitter and that his swing is closer to being ‘ on track ’ than for a long time .
8 But the law has never felt obliged to follow such rational simplicity if there are good reasons for doing otherwise .
9 What can As You Like It possibly mean to someone who had never been in love , or Hamlet to someone who has never felt ‘ how weary , stale , flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world ’ .
10 Something that has never felt right before .
11 HE insisted that the Church has never ruled that a priest should not have sex , only that he should not marry , ’ says Monika ( sic ) Kocanek by way of explaining how she ended up in bed with Fr Christopher O'Neill and then found herself pregnant .
12 Dawn has never bent or broken a feather in two and a half years .
13 ‘ She has never moved from Kinghorn .
14 ‘ We 've got to face the disconcerting fact ’ , he told his interviewer , ‘ that Irish rugby has never innovated anything with the possible exception of the garryowen ’ .
15 And the whole process is made as simultaneously agonising and amazing as it could be — you labour to give birth , that 's the right word all right , and it 's about as ghastly as possible and then at the end there 's this absolutely wonderful feeling , that the conspiracy has never hinted at , when you hold it and see it and you suddenly realise there 's a whole new emotion you did n't know anything about .
16 Prothero the demon-king has never bounded on to the stage more sulphurously than in Hugh Kenner 's The Pound Era :
17 ‘ Smith seems determined to tell me what I want for Roy Aitken , when in fact he has never asked me .
18 He has never asked me to read many putts ; he 's such a good reader of greens , and he says a professional golfer should putt by feel .
19 ‘ Although I tended not to write about her once we got to know each other , she has never asked me not to publish anything .
20 ‘ Stan Flashman has never asked me to come back , ’ said Fry ‘ I just turn up .
21 She has never asked me to leave my wife and children because she knows the pain of divorce .
22 He has never asked for any favours and , on the field , he 's never given any either .
23 " He has never asked me to go at this time of night before , " she whispered .
24 Bill has never asked anybody to forgive him before .
25 Now the Times has never asked me to write a leading article announcing that I have some doubts about the quantum theory
26 ETA has never engaged in attacks that might endanger such large numbers of bystanders , especially foreigners , even when presented with attractive targets .
27 BA has never engaged in such a campaign and the allegations made against us to the contrary are totally untrue .
28 Mr Clinton can not run the risk of sending Americans into a war that has never engaged much public attention without congressional cover .
29 He has never engaged in acquisitive crime such as burglary , because this would contradict his 1960s ‘ peace and love ’ philosophy .
30 The Securities & Exchange Committee ( SEC ) declared that " Pilgrim has never engaged in any revenue-producing business . "
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