Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was never realised as such , of course , and the conflict for supremacy between popes and kings took centuries to resolve . |
| 2 | Why had she never realised before this that Dana had every right to do as she pleased , regardless of how her sister felt ? |
| 3 | Soviet aid was never intended in any case to equip the Republic for victory , so much as to enable it to resist until the Spanish war became part of a more general conflict in which Britain and France would join the Soviet Union in fighting European fascism . |
| 4 | Abrams , who said he had never heard of such a thing before , asked him no more about them . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've never heard of such a thing ! |
| 6 | The local man said he 'd never heard of such a thing . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've never heard of such a thing ! |
| 8 | Never heard of such a thing . ’ |
| 9 | We had never heard of such a thing ; and apparently it had only recently been catalogued , after a spate of Australian deaths on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 10 | I have never heard of such a thing in all the worlds . ’ |
| 11 | I 've never heard of such nonsense . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've never heard of such a thing . ’ |
| 13 | When I consulted the Lancashire Association of Parish & Town Councils they had never heard of such a charge being made . |
| 14 | ‘ I have never heard of such a potion . |
| 15 | We had never heard of such a ferry , nor has the local history department at Liverpool Central Library . |
| 16 | A tol tolerably well behaved one would say peasant association , I 've lived here for decades tilling my land , I 've never heard of such a thing before and I have managed to live alright , I advise you to give it up . |
| 17 | Erm now he talks about the vanguards of revolutions i it 's just his distinction between the types of of peasant erm he looks at the rich peasants first of all and originally they 're , they 're not into revolution at all , you know , they do n't want to join peasant associations because they 've got nothing to gain erm as er er had said before , you know , p if you ask a rich peasant to join he 's gon na say well , you know , I 've never heard of such a thing before , you know , I 've , I can manage to live alright , I advise you to gi er give it up or alternatively he may just say , you know , good God no , you know , it 's too dangerous I , I do n't want to be knocked off by my landlord . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've never heard of that , sir . ’ |
| 19 | I 've never heard of that |
| 20 | I 've never heard of that word . |
| 21 | I 've never heard of that one at all . |
| 22 | I 've never heard of that before . |
| 23 | Never heard of that . |
| 24 | Then they got some bloody er parent who said my Johnny 's never heard of that word before |
| 25 | Never heard of that , that 's just a straightforward drill that |
| 26 | Elsewhere in the café , one of Sunsail 's flotilla skippers was explaining the difference between a sheet and a halyard to some Germans who had never heard of either . |
| 27 | In my ignorance , I had never heard of this extraordinary saga , and I did indeed spend some absorbing time in the church learning something about it . |
| 28 | ‘ I have never heard of this village , ’ he said . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I 've never heard of this Morrissey bloke . |