Example sentences of "have never [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prothero the demon-king has never bounded on to the stage more sulphurously than in Hugh Kenner 's The Pound Era : |
| 2 | We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure , disinterested altruism — something that has no place in nature , something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world . |
| 3 | All investigations into the perpetuation of evil point ultimately to the conclusion that the human race has never placed anywhere near sufficient emphasis on the importance of training its members for parenthood . |
| 4 | She has never stepped out of line . |
| 5 | ‘ Diana is an Uptown girl who has never gone in for downtown men , ’ observes Rory Scott . |
| 6 | Since she has done the unthinkable in LA and has never got round to buying herself a car , bus rides are the only way of getting around and the 6am commute to work brings her daily inspiration . |
| 7 | Maggie reckons her family should be help up as a warning to everyone who has never got round to it . |
| 8 | Coxall and Robins ’ ( 1989 , p. 309 ) apology for a Conservative-dominated press , that ‘ it has never shied away from criticising the Conservative Party or a Conservative Government ’ , is misleading . |
| 9 | What his mate , who has never bothered much with politics , discovers about our police on the one hand and lawyers on the other , forces him to take over the activist role in this tough political thriller . |
| 10 | Goebbels 's rhetoric that ‘ the German people has never looked up to its Führer so full of belief as in the days and hours that it became aware of the entire burden of this struggle for our life ’ , and that far from being discouraged ‘ it stood all the more firmly and unerringly behind his great aims ’ , sounded even emptier than usual . |
| 11 | ‘ The subject of marriage has never come up in our relationship . ’ |
| 12 | Originally a native of Mediterranean lands , it has never adapted completely to cold , wet conditions . |
| 13 | It is just as well that the tax price index , introduced by Nigel Lawson in an attempt to distract attention away from the inflationary impact of switching taxation from direct to indirect taxes , has never caught on as an indicator . |
| 14 | ‘ Why is it snooker has never taken off in America ? ’ |
| 15 | The party was held at his flat which was a loft in a warehouse down by the river in Shad Thames on a wharf right next to Tower Bridge I 'd never seen anywhere like it . |
| 16 | The mix of own compositions and covers worked well , bringing to my attention songs I 'd never heard before from the likes of Dick Gaughan and Steve Earle . |
| 17 | There was a desert island room , a medieval castle , a railway Pullman carriage , a dungeon , a school classroom , and a hospital ward for those who 'd never grown out of playing doctors and nurses . |
| 18 | He 'd never settled back into civilian life , and after telling his family at Wood Burcote in Northamptonshire that he was going camping in France , wrote to say he 'd enlisted with the Croats . |
| 19 | He 'd never got round to mending the hole . |
| 20 | He 'd never got around to closing the deadlock . |
| 21 | He 'd never spoken directly to the man in all his seventeen years . |
| 22 | He 'd admitted early on that he 'd never looked closely at goats before . |
| 23 | He 'd never looked down on a human before . |
| 24 | Perhaps they 'd never looked out of the windows . |
| 25 | Erm , I had n't actually felt that violent , I 'd been having extremes of emotion all week erm , very high , very low , very very fearful , panic attacks which I 'd never had before in my life . |
| 26 | Thorstvedt said : ‘ I 've never played better for the club . ’ |
| 27 | I 've never fallen out of love with him , not when he went home , not when we were in the courts , not now after three years . |
| 28 | There were a couple of things that I 've never seen anywhere since , relics of Victorian engineering . |
| 29 | I 've never seen anywhere like it in my life ! ’ |
| 30 | We 've never seen much above a detective sergeant in the road before ? ’ |