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 . ’
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