She could neither read nor write, had never been to school, never been to a hospital or a clinic or a dentist, had never had a new dress or owned a pair of shoes, had gone to bed hungry on more nights than she could remember, and, like millions of other black South Africans, she had learned to settle for what was there and to expect nothing more.

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He said that he had met the girl briefly at a party, but had never gone to the cinema with her or assaulted her.

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He claims never to have voted for a tax increase, or for an unbalanced budget, or for a congressional pay rise and never to have gone on a congressional junket.

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Some have never gone out, but have smouldered on in peaty soil or coal seams underground and have rekindled themselves.

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Even failed plays with songs that never made it into the canon (or in front of the cannon) are gone over at length.

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