Example sentences of "never have [vb pp] a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Jamie would never have done a silly thing like climbing up the archway . ’
2 Wolfram may never have seen a Muslim ; but he preaches , with outspoken conviction , the common humanity , the common place in God 's purpose , of Christian and heathen — ‘ spare God 's handiwork ’ .
3 Fanny Burney said to Johnson that Shakespeare ‘ could never have seen a Caliban ’ , and Johnson told her that having seen a man Shakespeare knew how to vary one ; ‘ A man who would draw a monstrous cow , must first know what a cow commonly is ; or how can he tell that to give her an ass 's head or an elephant 's tusk will make her monstrous ? ’
4 BRITAIN 'S No.2 tennis player of 1992 , Andrew Castle , is making a post-Wimbledon trip to Liverpool to coach the finer points of the game to novices who may never have seen a racket .
5 ‘ Of course , I 'd never have breathed a syllable if he 'd kept quiet about the dog track . ’
6 ‘ I 'd never have called a boy Apricot . ’
7 ‘ The Earl was a good old man ; he would never have touched a serving-maid .
8 If Angel had studied at Cambridge he would never have become a farmer and married a country girl .
9 ‘ Anyway , I examined the body myself ; I 'd never have missed a thing like that . ’
10 By the unwritten laws of an unadmitted game , Six should never have sent a war-party into Five 's tribal land without at least telling the Co-ordinator .
11 Buster Keaton would never have worn a straw hat , he stresses , and London is scoured for a felt one .
12 He may never have envisioned a situation in which it would be possible to specify in some detail the characteristics of the phylogenetic id , the evolutionary starting-point from which the modern id-ego organization began .
13 He knew now that he himself would never have made a flyer .
14 The East Somerset line later taken over by the Great Western Railway could never have made a profit .
15 However , the tiny amount of " wad " obtained from the mine could never have supported a mill and all alternative supply must have been arranged .
16 She would never have expected a cheer .
17 I 'd never have associated a man like Tweed with such an atrocity . ’
18 If she suspected she had enjoyed her life more than most of her married contemporaries , she would never have used a pejorative word about the married state , since she had no personal experience of it . )
19 All I can say is , I think they must never have spent a night in The Bar if they think that , or never a good night .
20 He 'd never have spent a week milksopping around this godforsaken backwater on account of — one little bag of bones . ’
21 If the 1930 agreement had taken effect fully , there could never have come a time when the freehold to the remainder of No. 263–265 would be left without a road frontage .
22 What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ?
23 Yes , of course she had , because Grandmother had known full well that her husband could never have fathered a child .
24 And when this was reported , Raimondin ( he was the original knight , the husband ) said , ‘ This is all your fault , I should never have married a horrible snake . ’
25 ‘ You should never have married a Tory , ’ she said .
26 Jimmy Airlie , chief Ford union negotiator , said : ‘ The princess should never have picked a foreign car in the first place .
27 As secretary of state for defence you could never have afforded a position like this .
28 She probably could never have afforded a stairgate , so Save The Children lent her the equipment from its safety loan scheme .
29 She would never have won a beauty contest .
30 She 'd never have had a smash hit on Broadway if she 'd stayed here to work .
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