Example sentences of "have never [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You know perfectly well that your husband 's mother lives at a considerable distance , in point of fact in a suburb of Sheffield , and that she has never at any time offered to look after your children . " |
| 2 | The County Council has never at any time considered a paper or come to a conclusion erm on the preferred general location for the new settlement . |
| 3 | Yes , Dorothea thought , I would enjoy her company , she would take me out of myself , for she has never for one moment lost her grip upon life , her grasp of a situation , her confidence . |
| 4 | For all his ego and vanity , even Florian has never for a moment imagined that I felt any sort of lust or love for him , although he also has no idea just how selfish and immature I do find him outside a broadcasting studio . |
| 5 | I mean , Diana herself has never in her lifetime uttered one statement that has been of any use to any member of the human race . ’ |
| 6 | London is the great city of art auctions , with New York ; but it has never in this century rivalled Paris or New York as a place for painters and sculptors to live in . |
| 7 | He 'd never in his life felt colder . |
| 8 | And we 've never to so we do n't know . |
| 9 | We 've never in the past looked in detail at the total work content to work out these time units , after all in the past , we 've known what the client wants , we 've been giving him it for years . |
| 10 | They 've , they 've never in fact that means they normally or something like this on a car . |
| 11 | Well I 've never until today whatever they are . |
| 12 | Ernie , who regarded himself as an expert with horses , had never at any time reassessed his skills . |
| 13 | France had never at heart been enthusiastic about the EDC , regarding it at a minimum as perhaps a lesser evil : fundamentally , it did not want West German rearmament . |
| 14 | Isabel Lavender had never for one moment doubted that everything would somehow , eventually , go her way , though she could accept the idea of temporary setbacks . |
| 15 | She had read of this sort of thing often enough ; she had heard of its happening to other people — even to people she knew — but she had never for one moment imagined that it could happen to her . |
| 16 | On the few occasions when she had been compelled to enter the water , she had stayed in the very shallowest part of the pool and had never for a moment released her grip on the handrail . |
| 17 | She had always disliked them , had never for a moment been able to see their virtues ; she had been bored by the classical , and had felt a positive , righteous contempt for the baroque and the neo-Gothic . |
| 18 | But , take my word for it , the possibility had never for one moment occurred to me . ’ |
| 19 | She had obviously been well cared for throughout her illness — but then , Shiona had never for one moment doubted that . |
| 20 | And it was such an obvious explanation that she ought to have thought of it herself , but for some reason it had never for one moment crossed her mind . |
| 21 | They 'd been friends , companions , they 'd got on well together , but , now that she knew what real love was , she knew that she had never for one moment loved him . |
| 22 | Well , he said , to Sullivan , he knew that the British had never like him , But why had the CIA turned on him ? |
| 23 | Shrewsbury had never until then sensed the bitterness of this recoil , or its galling comedy . |
| 24 | ‘ Christ ! ’ she said , and the next moment , forgetful of her own safety , she had Maggie in her arms , shushing and soothing as she had never in her life done before . |
| 25 | He had never in his life paired off to do this . |
| 26 | While the ambulance waited , it had to be carefully put away in the cupboard , as she had never in all her life left things draining by the sink . |
| 27 | Jim Callaghan 's response was that he ‘ had never in fifty years been so depressed as a trade unionist ’ . |
| 28 | He said that he had examined the plans with Sir Joseph Paxton , the other member for Coventry , and ‘ had never in his life seen a building which appeared so confused in its internal arrangements ’ . |
| 29 | Her Aunt Elizabeth lived in a small house in the depths of the country near Hereford , and as she her self had never in her life been outside of Birmingham , the journey was like visiting a foreign country . |
| 30 | She had never in her life undressed in front of a man — not even a doctor . |