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Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [verb] never " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	You know the thing is I feel that when I was tried to get the theatre board and I have contacted various people on the board I have never been listened to .
2	you know they sit there going what is a normal case , this is a normal case I 've never seen anything else before .
3	In any case I have never , during more than fifty years of travel , anticipated falling ill .
4	That 's a division I 'd never even heard of before .
5	M. I 've never really thought of M objectively before , as another person .
6	On the plus side was the fact that the Foreign Office and the years spent in Cabinet were a good apprenticeship , while in addition I had never been afraid of taking decisions .
7	Then I spotted them — superb orange orchids of a kind I had never seen in Danu .
8	I told her to forget this doctor nonsense and talk more reasonably about the oilman and his petrodollars and what he had her do In the dying moments she made a noise I 'd never heard her make before , a rhythmical whimpering of abandonment or entreaty , a lost sound .
9	One article in particular , from a writer I 've never heard of before , stated that the course was dull and boring and that there was no great degree of difficulty .
10	And of course I 've never been introduced to you properly . ’
11	‘ Of course I 've never been able to cook .
12	Then , with a blitheness I had never associated with Pike , he stepped two paces back into the path of the oncoming truck .
13	Certainly in my own experience I have never come across armed smugglers , although on at least one occasion I was threatened with a knife when attempting to stop a seaman leaving a ship , and once I was attached by a ship 's steward when attempting to relieve him of a briefcase full of uncustomed goods .
14	In fact there 's several chapters dedicated to software , particularly educational software and Toni Mitchell is obviously passionate about her subject … ‘ in 20 years of teaching I have never seen any teaching tool or method that captures the imagination and excites the enthusiasm and interest of the children as much as quality computer software . ’
15	It 's the other kind of thinking I 've never been able to muster , the long-term stuff , ‘ Never confuse strategy with tactics , ’ one of my tutors advised me , but I ca n't even remember what the words mean .
16	They stick me in some kind of waiting-room Upstairs , in a wing of the complex I 've never seen before .
17	It is a river I know well , but a stretch I have never fished before , and when I see it I wonder why .
18	All those long nights when I had sat in the canteen I had never realized what was happening just a few yards away on the Tartan track .
19	The architecture I sought never materialised in any of my compositions .
20	The architecture I sought never materialised in any of my compositions .
21	In four years of road testing I have never seen two such similar sets of statistics .
22	We always used to push a long wire in to see how er every stack used to heat a little but er er touchwood I 've never er never saw a stack heat that badly .
23	No , only a bloke I 've never seen one had one .
24	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 .
25	A beautiful young girl I 've never seen before .
26	A more concrete , realistic girl I 've never met .
27	Now up to that moment I had never heard of John Searby , one of Gibson 's flight commanders , and he did not appear on " Cocky's ' list .
28	It is one place I have never worked at . ’
29	He also clearly makes a point I had never considered before : that Bosola , the eternal outsider and masterless man , is not simply some rogue assassin but the author 's moral spokesman .
30	My father died erm sixteen years ago and I was put on to tranquillizers , up until that point I had never needed a drug in my life , and I was put onto tranquillizers and I had a terrible experience !