Example sentences of "i have never [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | I du n no I 'd I 'd probably listen to it but I 'd I 've never gone out and bought any of them . |
2 | It was the third day in July , page four , seven , three and then I had to find a word that I 'd never heard off before and put it up on the board . |
3 | I was beginning to understand a lot I 'd never known about before , and for the first time that day Toby 's fatal unthinking words came back to me : " One day she 'll have a baby without ever having understood what love really means . " |
4 | She later embellished it with a few words about my inability to dance again — which I 'd never indulged in — and proposed that the girls would be driven even further away . |
5 | It was a nice piece of lingerie but I 'd never worked out why they named it after Spanish terrorists |
6 | I do n't think I had ever watched the dawn break until my Waaf days — certainly I had never stayed up all night before , and however many times I had to do it in the course of my duties , it always seemed to me a highly unnatural procedure . |
7 | Julie and I had never fallen out before , and Barbie had always been like a big sister to me , too . |
8 | I had never knelt down in front of anyone . |
9 | ‘ And what if I had never shown up here ? |
10 | 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 . |
11 | I 've never turned down a film I 've wanted to do because the money was too small . |
12 | but it left me with an interest in Leeds United which I 've never shaken off , nor have I ever wnated to . |
13 | And anyway so we went to er over to Egypt and then it was when we came back and I I , the other morning on the radio they was talking about asking people to ring in about , I 've never rang in , I never bother ring , er how they spent their twenty first birthday . |
14 | I 've never gone along with that theory . |
15 | I 'm ever so disappointed that I 've not been to Yugoslavia , I wanted to go to Dubrovnik , you know , it 's been on the sort of list but I 've never got round to it . |
16 | and I went into the kitchen and I fell down , first time in my life , I 've never passed out , not |
17 | I never see fewer than six or seven young men sitting around in the kitchen when I go in there , I 've never worked out who 's a brother or a cousin or what . |
18 | What , what time erm although I 've been to San Franciso , I 've never worked out what time the evening news is there . |
19 | I 've seen one or two erm previews of it but I 've never found out when it is . |
20 | I 've never figured out how to do that ! |
21 | I 've never sat down and tried to figure all that shit out — it gets very subtle and very complicated . |
22 | Not the police — I 've never looked up to them . |
23 | Marriage will often be discussed with a kind of tolerant resignation as one of those burdens which have to be carried in life , the stuff of music-hall jokes : ‘ Since I 've had my wife behind me I 've never looked back ! ’ |
24 | From there , I 've never looked back . |
25 | ‘ Since then I 've never looked back . |
26 | And since Jack Walker got involved , I suppose my form has followed the fortunes of the club , and I 've never looked back . ’ |
27 | ‘ And I 've never looked back . ’ |
28 | ‘ At one point I thought about stopping , ’ Rasmussen said , ‘ but that would have been a first for me , because I 've never dropped out of a marathon . ’ |
29 | ‘ And I have never turned down any woman for a job on the grounds that she might go and get married , or have a baby , thus necessitating six months ’ paid maternity leave . ’ |
30 | I have never sat down and been waited on hand and foot , ever . ’ |