Example sentences of "i have never " in BNC.

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1 I have never been in the business of producing art-crap , he wrote .
2 And Goldberg , in his pad : I have never said or written any of the sentiments attributed to me here , though I have heard them from the mouths and read them from the pens of others .
3 A feeling , wrote Harsnet , such as I have never experienced before , not so much of wishing I had never been born , as never been born as me .
4 I have never spent so long on a single project .
5 For example , I have never received a personal letter following my stay to thank me for my custom .
6 ‘ To my certain knowledge , Wendy , I have never set eyes on anyone called Margot Iverson in my life before . ’
7 It is a frightening experience , and I have never heard of anyone doing it a second time .
8 I have never completely resolved my own dilemma , for I do not think it has a simple resolution .
9 However , I have never seen a copy of this circulated at the subdivision level at any location I have worked ; and outside force HQ the availability of any research or analytic literature on policing falls off dramatically .
10 And I have never kissed a woman like you before , I 've never kissed you before .
11 I have never known you be so patient , Miss Jay Goodtime ! ’ declaimed Jamie , gluing centipede eyelashes into unlikely pools of stage make-up .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 In theory ( I have never seen this done ) you can also slap the incoming punch upwards and then go underneath it with a reverse punch .
15 I have never swum in my life , he thought , is he lay wakefully at dawn .
16 I do not know how the customs people work these things out , but I have never paid import duties on these overseas postal purchases .
17 I have never heard this case made in anything like the explicit fashion in which I have just outlined it , and I do not think it ever would be publicly made .
18 I have never sat down and been waited on hand and foot , ever . ’
19 Abse puts his faith in Heseltine , whom I have never been able to take seriously as a politician .
20 I have never broken the law , but I will stand with my class , my community , my councillors and my MPs on this issue . ’
21 ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation .
22 But now , it sounds crazy but I have never felt so happy . ’
23 I have never thought of anything I undertook as provocative .
24 I have never accepted that .
25 Sister Catherine , of Our Lady of Passion monastery , Northants , on the order to slaughter the nuns ' salmonella-infected chickens I have never regarded the term ‘ do-gooder ’ as a criticism .
26 I have never found the perfect answer .
27 My qualification for writing about skiing in the USA is unusual : I have never done it .
28 Many of the Officers and other ranks who landed on D-Day have been replaced by faces I have never seen before .
29 I have been producing guidebooks for fifteen years and I have never thought of that .
30 I have never found any of my old friends , despite scouring the columns of Air Mail , ’ he says .
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