Example sentences of "have never [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yes , Mrs De Luca has her own opinions about certain things , but she has never dwelled on their background or personal lives . |
| 4 | ‘ The Yugoslav Army has never fired on the people , ’ Col Budimir Mladenovic said when confronted by an angry Muslim villager who held in his hands the remains of an Army issue mortar shell . |
| 5 | But the Gover School has never depended on major names . |
| 6 | Simon Wigg has been at the top of his sport for a decade but has never ridden on the road . |
| 7 | Now the director general of Bellas Artes , Jose Maria Luzón cites the EEC as the reason why they are retracting this gesture , although in fact Brussels has never legislated on the matter . |
| 8 | Though she could well believe a secret hiding-place existed , the housekeeper said , she 'd never stumbled on one , nor had Signor Diomede ever mentioned it . |
| 9 | ‘ Keith added a huge thing to the band , ’ enthuses Bryan , ‘ and he 'd never recorded on an album before . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't worry , Cawthorne deserves everything that 's coming to him , ’ said McInnes in a tone I bet he 'd never used on Sorrel . |
| 11 | We 've never jumped on the bandwagon 'cos it 's clearly going to end in tears , but there 's definitely been a vibe that has n't been around since the days of the Buzzcocks and The Electric Circus . |
| 12 | I 've never slept on my own afore . ’ |
| 13 | Well I 've never signed on the dole so |
| 14 | ‘ She 's only seven years older than me and so I 've never looked on her as a mother figure . |
| 15 | We 've never looked on EMF as a career . |
| 16 | ‘ Write my memoirs ? ’ she said , and smiled , but such a smile as Erika had never seen on her grandmother 's face before : wry , mocking , and , shockingly , cynical . |
| 17 | He had gone on to a party at a rich woman 's house , he explained , and seen a display of drinks such as he had never seen on earth before . |
| 18 | That evening , as we walked through the village that Eric had never seen on our way to the orphanage , I felt proud and happy that he had come back . |
| 19 | Most of the police officers taking part had never appeared on TV before . |
| 20 | Denis could hardly hide his smiles , knowing that Uncle Mick had never stepped on a baseball pitch in his life . |
| 21 | When he passed through an ivy-clad trellis arch and saw the man he sought , however , raking dead leaves and twigs into an incinerator , he realized how absurd the idea was that they could somehow be twin actors of the same part who had never met on stage till this unscripted moment . |
| 22 | After this the woman had gone on to attack her wearing feminine clothes , and somehow after that , Gabriel , although liking the woman ( called Karen , whom she had gone on knowing ) and still believing you should Ban the Bomb , had never gone on another march . |
| 23 | ‘ He had never run on heavy ground in his life and his best form was always on good or fast going , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 24 | He had come to France ( in which he spent more than half his life as king of England ) and had , as contemporaries recognised , achieved considerable conquests , something which his predecessors had never done on that scale or within so short a period of time . |
| 25 | Lucifer 's face was so devil-like as he said it that he frightened even Izzie , a thing he had never done on stage . |
| 26 | He had never raced on an oval nor ever driven more than 200 miles in a race . |
| 27 | Moreover , although his father no doubt knew of his disappointment , they had never spoken on the matter . |
| 28 | You would have thought that what happened at Tottenham had never happened on a football pitch before . |
| 29 | Ludens had never got on so easily with a woman , not even with Sylvia , who had always been ‘ playing the feminine ’ . |
| 30 | Mrs Cummings ' daughter-in-law was similar to , though less antagonistic than , Mrs Kitchener 's daughter , in that she said she found looking after her mother-in-law a strain , that it was time-consuming , and putting a strain on her marriage ; she and her mother-in-law had never got on very well , and she ‘ would like to get her into a Home , ’ . |