Example sentences of "[vb -s] never have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has never had to advertise any of her products because ‘ the shops and the product are the best advertisement ’ . |
| 2 | In practice it has never had to invoke this law . |
| 3 | Remarkably , Mr McGovern has never had to sell equity in his firm to outside investors , though he has given away nearly 30% to motivate employees . |
| 4 | ‘ The art world has never had to deal with that populist level , ’ he continues — we 've obviously broached one of his favourite topics . |
| 5 | Potter says this approach has been satisfactory , although he would not say how many times the company had used it , but Psion has never had to take a case to court . |
| 6 | His dress was austere enough , but rich and ample , and worn with an authority that comes only by birth , and his movements had the unmistakable quality of nobility , the absolute conviction of one who has never had to hesitate or use caution and humility in order to placate his betters . |
| 7 | She has never had to compete with private collectors for company archives and hopes she never has to . |
| 8 | And although he has seen some strange sights down the Big Apple 's drains , the real-life Mario has never had to fight off fire-breathing dragons or deadly piranha flowers . |
| 9 | Lord Young , a minister who has never had to face an election , has a meagre reservoir of affection and support among Tory backbenchers . |
| 10 | It appears never to have remained sufficiently constant to enable benches more than a few kilometres wide to form , at least since the beginning of the Pleistocene period . |
| 11 | Although the original bond rules state that transfers ‘ must have been first approved by the Club Committee ’ this appears never to have happened , although at some stage the rule was amended to apply only to ‘ non-member ’ transferees . |
| 12 | The British men 's magazine market seems never to have outgrown its tedious fascination with fast boats and faster cars . |
| 13 | So absurd was the idea to Weinberger that he seems never to have understood the hold it acquired over other people , including the President . |
| 14 | His final patent , taken out in 1863 , for improvements in the manufacture of caustic soda and caustic potash , seems never to have gone beyond the experimental stage . |
| 15 | Surprisingly , the court seems never to have decided this ‘ territoriality ’ question in relation to the predecessor sections in the earlier Acts , such as sections 42 and 44 of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 , section 320 of the Companies Act 1948 and section 172 of the Law of Property Act 1925 . |
| 16 | But his near-contemporary J. Chalmers , who had begun his apprenticeship in August 1900 , found himself still stuck at 14s in 1907 , when he was 21 years old , and over the next year or two his pay was usually between 23s and 27s a week : he seems never to have made it to 32s . |
| 17 | Even more paradoxically , that distinguished son of Marseilles , Pytheas , who discovered the north of Europe , seems never to have travelled inside France . |
| 18 | Closeness to a grandmother 's death seems never to have invoked the intense emotional experiences which those who nursed a parent or spouse sometimes recall with such striking physical intimacy . |
| 19 | He seems never to have married . |
| 20 | He observes the prohibition against ‘ talking shop ’ , whereas Pound through his London years seems never to have talked anything else . |
| 21 | The Welsh bishop of Llandaff seems never to have submitted , and it was not until 1107 that Anselm was able to consecrate a bishop thoroughly devoted to the interests of Canterbury . |
| 22 | ‘ Love means never having to say you 're sorry ’ is wisdom from below . |
| 23 | Pop means never having to say you 're sorry for liking such an obviously dispensable bangle as ‘ I Wan na Stay Home ’ . |
| 24 | Well of course he 's never had to do anything for himself . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps he 's never had to work with anyone like Dane Jacobsen before , ’ she said flatly . |
| 26 | ( For the record , he claims never to have met the girl linked with him in a recent Sunday supplement expose . ) |