Example sentences of "never [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Percy took her hand , saying , ‘ Definitely my art is diffused , but I have never stooped so low as to even touch a guitar . ’ |
| 2 | Attitudes toward active participation in the war opened deep fissures in the movement which , at the extreme , were never healed . |
| 3 | Later in the night she would discover the scars , the knife wound across his shoulder-blades where he 'd been slashed in a Belfast bar , and the bullet wound above his right knee that had never healed properly , a legacy from when he was on border patrol and one of his own men had panicked and opened fire on him . |
| 4 | ‘ All I do know about the Spanish Civil War is it left a lot of scars that never healed . |
| 5 | He was sometimes difficult , often distrustful and the scars of a thousand press knives have never healed . |
| 6 | If he was disappointed that his dead wife had not borne him a son to carry on the tradition , he had never remarried ; there was Dinah , who was ample reward , investment for the future . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm surprised that you have never remarried . |
| 8 | ‘ Fem Sap has never recognized the sort of hierarchy which says that only published authors , or professors of literature , have something worth saying . |
| 9 | Tylers have never recognized any union and are well known for the low rates and poor conditions that they impose on their workers . |
| 10 | I say borrow but the cash was never refunded and I expect Dad thought it was a cheap way to get rid of him . |
| 11 | Hating as I have never hated . |
| 12 | I have never hated hyenas : their occasional maniacal laughter and their eerie whooping cries are among my earliest memories . |
| 13 | He had never hated himself more . |
| 14 | ‘ I was angry , but I 've never hated you , Isabel . |
| 15 | You know I 've never hated you — though for years I 've been wishing that I could ! ’ |
| 16 | I really , I 've never hated people as much as I hate the teachers in this school . |
| 17 | Louis-Napoleon 's enemies were , in later years , to make great play with the supposed dubiety of his paternity , but the case was never proven . |
| 18 | If this was a common practice , and it was never proven , it was hardly deeply culpable . |
| 19 | The US Congress has never uttered a word of criticism against the Israelis . |
| 20 | He meant to give her an emphatic no , but the word was never uttered . |
| 21 | And in the Commons in 1860 he declared : " I have never uttered a word in favour of universal franchise either in this House or elsewhere . " |
| 22 | What the girl was suggesting was probably impossible , but it seems the logistics were never checked . |
| 23 | That is why , according to Eliot , soda siphons from that firm — I have never checked this — bear on their labels some phrase to the effect that they had been thoroughly and exhaustively tested . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Since I have never regarded the matter as having much bearing on religious affairs then this omission on my part is logical , if somewhat lacking in curiosity . |
| 26 | However , the single most important factor militating against employers ' cooperation was that they never regarded the ‘ problems ’ highlighted by reformers — indiscipline , excessive occupational mobility , absence of vocational guidance , lack of systematic industrial training , and inadequate preparation for family responsibilities and exercise of the franchise — as problems for which they felt responsible ; they had little interest in the search for solutions . |
| 27 | She had never regarded herself as a very organised person , and did n't even consider she had a routine ; but when George retired , realised that she did have a kind of pattern . |
| 28 | I was sad about this because I am a clubbable person by nature , and have never regarded a game of golf as anything but an occasion of pleasurable social exchange ; but an end to Muirfield was the price I had to pay for the championing of Meehan 's cause . |
| 29 | That the particular day of the sighting was never regarded as special , and is almost brushed aside , suggests that it was a Tuesday — and the nearest Tuesday to the reported date is the 27th . |
| 30 | From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such . |