Example sentences of "have never [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1967 Ron Gorchov dreamed up a uniquely curved and hinged frame to support the canvas on which he paints and in all the years since then he has never wavered from its use , though it has appeared in a wide variety of sizes and variations . |
| 2 | ‘ She has never moved from Kinghorn . |
| 3 | And the whole process is made as simultaneously agonising and amazing as it could be — you labour to give birth , that 's the right word all right , and it 's about as ghastly as possible and then at the end there 's this absolutely wonderful feeling , that the conspiracy has never hinted at , when you hold it and see it and you suddenly realise there 's a whole new emotion you did n't know anything about . |
| 4 | He has never asked for any favours and , on the field , he 's never given any either . |
| 5 | ETA has never engaged in attacks that might endanger such large numbers of bystanders , especially foreigners , even when presented with attractive targets . |
| 6 | BA has never engaged in such a campaign and the allegations made against us to the contrary are totally untrue . |
| 7 | He has never engaged in acquisitive crime such as burglary , because this would contradict his 1960s ‘ peace and love ’ philosophy . |
| 8 | The Securities & Exchange Committee ( SEC ) declared that " Pilgrim has never engaged in any revenue-producing business . " |
| 9 | Deacon 's structure involves two complementary shapes joined at right angles ; shapes that one has never seen before but one recognises as familiar . |
| 10 | In this city where everything is possible , and he cuts such a figure in his light suit and striped silk tie , and is 32 and full of self-confidence , and can walk up to a girl he has never seen before and with a disarming smile ask her when lighting-up time is — how can he be wearing a maroon crew-necked sweater , and cavalry twill trousers with turnups , and be 22 , and find himself running after a girl and being told that she may or may not see him tomorrow ? |
| 11 | Souness has never shrugged off his vanity . |
| 12 | As you know , I am a manager who has never shirked from putting a player 's welfare before football and , unlike many less tolerant managers , I was quite happy for Steve Gillery to hold his stag ‘ night ’ at 10 a.m. on the morning of the match , albeit a game crucial to our survival . |
| 13 | Arfur 's missus has never appeared on screen but her shady husband 's description of her will appear in the famous reference work 's next edition . |
| 14 | No but , yeah but Merridown , Merri Merridown has never professed to be scrumpy . |
| 15 | Their model is contemporary western democracy , something that most of them admit has never existed in its modern form in eastern Europe . |
| 16 | She has never cared for a disabled person before , but there is a natural love and empathy between them : she hugs Elaine a lot and they are very close . |
| 17 | The UK has never operated on the basis of giving subsidised loans ( as in France ) instead of capital grants for investment schemes , though there is no reason why such a system should not be instigated . |
| 18 | The classic example of AGR failure , the Dungeness B plant on the Kent coast , eventually took about twenty years to finish , cost £3.5 billion to build ( at 1988 prices ) — roughly five times its original estimate — and has never operated at even half its intended capacity . |
| 19 | He has scented higher things — England ‘ B ’ v Pakistan and 12th man for the real McCoy against India , both in 1982 , his first full season — and if the aroma has never led to mouthfuls of fame ( due in part to a perceived shortage of confidence against high pace in his formative years ) he has been a staunch servant through thick and thin . |
| 20 | The factory inspectorate has never heard of their existence . |
| 21 | I think they thought , who is this bloke that keeps turning up for practices but does n't actually do anything and has never heard of the Who ! ’ |
| 22 | It is natural for a person who has been working towards a survey for several months to overlook the fact that the respondent has never heard of this wonderful enquiry and may be utterly baffled by it ; but in this lies a great danger of asking poor questions , insufficiently considered from the respondents ' viewpoint . |
| 23 | Given that it has never heard of Snell 's law , does it have to go through some alternative process of computation to adjust its angle-of-dive appropriately — and if so , what ? |
| 24 | It could be argued that anyone who is idiot enough to send a cheque for thousands of pounds to a salesman of shares in unquoted companies he has never heard of deserves to lose it all . |
| 25 | If Jones has never heard of Tolstoy or read any of his books , it is meaningless to assert that Jones either likes Tolstoy as a writer or does not like Tolstoy as a writer . |
| 26 | People Howard has never heard of pick quarrels and pass out . |
| 27 | ‘ Mushy peas are described as the Caviar of the North , but the average Chinaman has never heard of caviar and thinks the ‘ North ’ is Outer Mongolia . ’ |
| 28 | Wel it does n't get a great deal of publicity in the media , and of course we only circulate information about it to schools , so I 'm sure that the man in the street probably has never heard of it . |
| 29 | It is not the only roof over his head — in fact he has never lived in it . |
| 30 | Mrs Sweeting said her daughter , a receptionist at County Hall , in Chelmsford , has never complained about her illness and always adopted a positive approach to life . |