Example sentences of "i have never [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I have debated several prayers over the years , but I have never participated in a debate in which the points made by the Labour party were so bogus . |
2 | Unlike Mr I have always found fox hunting distasteful , I have never participated in it , I have never followed it and I do n't think that I I ever want to and er , I have I am not convinced by either economic or the put forward in its favour . |
3 | It is a frightening experience , and I have never heard of anyone doing it a second time . |
4 | A spokesman for The Magistrates Association said : ‘ I have never heard of anything like this happening before . ’ |
5 | I have never heard of anybody , apart from people who may hope to get good jobs in these bogus new regional authorities , who , thrilled by a weird kind of socialist local patriotism , longs for the day when the flag of the East Midland Region is raised over the Great Roundabout of Retford , or the parliament of the West Midland Region holds its inaugural meeting at Telford New Town . |
6 | ‘ I have never heard of this village , ’ he said . |
7 | But , although that sweet may have made you forget a grazed knee when you were four years old , I have never heard of a chocolate ( or even a whole box of them ) bringing back a lost love , changing the grade on an examination paper or reversing an unwelcome redundancy . |
8 | THIS MUST BE A YEAR FOR SURPRISING pianists and here 's one I have never heard of before : young Belgian Laurent de Wilde , whose latest album is ‘ Odd and Blue ’ ( IDA Records ) . |
9 | He said , ‘ I have never heard of Auric Industries before , although I have heard of Auric Enterprises . |
10 | In all the years I have been practising , and among all the hypnotherapists whom I know or of whom I have read , I have never heard of any individual suffering any side-effects at all — except positive ones . |
11 | I would not normally expect this from a Severum — but then I have never heard of a Severum eating Halfbeaks . |
12 | Well I do n't , I have never heard of a local group that makes money out of this selling . |
13 | I have never heard of such a thing in all the worlds . ’ |
14 | Pahdra Singh 's secretary called earlier to say she would be picking the team for this Saturday 's match and that some kid I have never heard of , Ubahni Singh , will be playing centre-forward ! |
15 | Though I have never heard of any one collaboration between restaurateur and artist proving more lucrative than the next , there does not seem to be any shortage of artists who will in effect take on certain risks in order to get their work out on the town . |
16 | ‘ I have never heard of anything so absurd . ’ |
17 | ‘ I have never heard of such a potion . |
18 | Mr Jackson said : ‘ I have never heard of anything like this before but it did not really spoil our day . |
19 | And they said Bowater and I said well I have never heard of you and then they said have you heard of the paper ? |
20 | Not surprisingly I have never heard from any of them since , although I felt that I had made a number of new and lasting Russian friendships that night . |
21 | I have never heard in my life such a noise . |
22 | A prompt reply I would have deemed a common decency , you being a fellow screenplay writer , though I must say I have never cared for your work , finding it , at once , both florid and superficial . |
23 | ME ( coldly ) : I have never served in a flower shop if that is your suggestion — My father owns a chain … . |
24 | Getting to the tenant situation I have never dictated to tenants . |
25 | I have never believed in dealing with soldiers by a process of ‘ remote control ’ ; they are human beings , and their lives are precious . ’ |
26 | I have never flown in an aeroplane , and I never will ! |
27 | I have never flown in a tail dragger before but I would like to in the near future . |
28 | He would tease , too — telling people that Rogers sat all day in his office , counting the money , except on the occasions he made forays to location ‘ wearing a pair of green wellies ’ — which Rogers maintains , ‘ I have never worn in my life ’ . |
29 | Horse-whipping used to be , by some accounts , a favourite method of dealing with columnists , though I have never run across an actual case . |
30 | Oisin , who knew a little of the theory of sorcery — ‘ Although I have never aspired to its practice , ’ he would have said modestly — knew that with the emerging of the first , the others would have gained strength and confidence . |