Example sentences of "they have never [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They did n't want to admit they 'd never heard of him . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'd never heard of me , surprisingly enough , but they went mad over my work and asked me to do some portraits for them . |
| 3 | ‘ I rang up Scotland Yard to tell you something this morning , and they 'd never heard of you . ’ |
| 4 | They did n't have them at the bookshop I went to , they 'd never heard of the magazine , and a friend of mine who writes poetry said he was certain it did n't exist . ’ |
| 5 | I then rang the Family Health Authority er myself , and they 'd never heard of the person and had no trace of of the name I gave them . |
| 6 | The group is encouraged to bring out everything , including things they 'd never admitted to themselves before , then other members provide support . |
| 7 | Which they wish to God they 'd never got into . |
| 8 | To tell you the truth Brenda , I 'm very sorry for her because I think that she and Ned have made a really a quite ferocious mess of their life , they 've never intended to be slaving away to be doing kitchen fitting , he wanted to do wood sculpture that was he 's idea in |
| 9 | If they 've never advertised before which is unlikely if we 're going for high fli you know high flier |
| 10 | But while The Cure have often dabbled , they 've never delved in quite this deep . |
| 11 | But while The Cure have often dabbled , they 've never delved in quite this deep . |
| 12 | If you believe what they say , they 've never heard of a little girl going missing ! ’ |
| 13 | Verily , thou art mistaken — I contacted Microvalue , and they 've never heard of it . |
| 14 | They 've never heard of glass houses . |
| 15 | Present it to Walter Raleigh , Sitting Bull , Napoleon , Julius Caesar or even the man on the Athens omnibus circa 100 BC and explain to him that this is not the work of God or the Devil but a few clever chaps in a place and time they 've never heard of . |
| 16 | They 've never heard of him |
| 17 | I could do a couple of tapes worth of slang words that they 've never heard of before . |
| 18 | ‘ Old people bringing something out of the attic they 've never cared for , and then seeing it fetch thousands of pounds at auction . |
| 19 | In these hard and unforgiving times , some people have struggled as they 've never had to before . |
| 20 | ’ And they 've never come after you ? ’ she asked dubiously . |
| 21 | ‘ Our problem was to convert audiences to accepting David in something they had never seen in him before , ’ said Mr Lawrence . |
| 22 | They had never heard of the Greeks , unless you counted the man who kept the Acropolis restaurant in Stowerton , and neither could now understand the emotion which held each of them , preserving him in silence and a kind of despair . |
| 23 | They had never heard of Fulham . |
| 24 | It can be no coincidence that the famed Fund of Funds , which so many investors wish they had never heard of , was set up by Bernie Cornfield . |
| 25 | As for the letters to the museum itself and the director , Feigen says that they were apparently intercepted and sent on to Hildenbrand : ‘ When we contacted the museum to ask why payment had not been forthcoming , they had never heard of us ’ . |
| 26 | They had never heard of England , but thought it must be somewhere near Cairo . |
| 27 | These children had n't learnt to be afraid of animals because they had never heard of Earth , the Burning , or the Book of Remembering . |
| 28 | He was glad for them , they fought so ferociously , as if they had never heard of defeat , they who were already defeated . |
| 29 | When I consulted the Lancashire Association of Parish & Town Councils they had never heard of such a charge being made . |
| 30 | However , they had never flown into ACA before . |