Example sentences of "[noun] never give " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at that late stage in his illness , Donal never gave up hope . |
| 2 | Natasha Kornilof : ‘ I have to say David never gave me any notes . |
| 3 | Old Shallot never gives a rat 's arse . |
| 4 | If he lacked Zhivkov 's taste , Ceauşescu showed greater consistency of purpose : Zhivkov survived his fall and lived long enough to explain that he had not really been a Communist after all ; Ceauşescu never gave his judges the satisfaction of hearing him renounce his beliefs . |
| 5 | But in another way some stubbornness was at work in me , some determination never to give up , and to cling in secret to whatever reality I could find for myself . |
| 6 | Maggie never gave a thought to hers . |
| 7 | Substituting each of these in turn in the given polynomial never gives the value 0 . |
| 8 | Wife or not , she knew that Stephen never gave praise unless he thought it was due . |
| 9 | ‘ The keeper never gives us anything like that — she only gives us what 's good for us ! ’ |
| 10 | Either you have lost the letter or you did n't have it to lose in the first place , in which case the king never gave it to you , i which case he gave it to me , in which case I would have put it into my inside top pocket in which case ( Calmly producing the letter ) … it will be … here . |
| 11 | That 's west unless we 're off course , in which case it 's night ; the King gave me the same as you , the King gave you the same as me : the King never gave me the letter , the King gave you the letter , we do n't know what 's in the letter ; we take Hamlet to the English King , it depending on when we get there who he is , and we hand over the letter , which may or may not have something in it to keep us going , and if not , we are finished and at a loose end , if they have loose ends . |
| 12 | Nomads never gave up the fight , but had no answer to an Alresford side on top form . |
| 13 | Nomads never gave up the fight , but had no answer to an Alresford side on top form . |
| 14 | Gold paint never gives a satisfactory finish , as it rarely matches the beautiful patina of old gilding , which in turn helps to distinguish the genuine article from a reproduction . |
| 15 | It enabled Hardy to mount up the points , but Fernandez never gave up trying , despite visibly tiring from the halfway stage . |
| 16 | I changed agents but that did n't help because some people never give up . |
| 17 | So Peg never gave Mrs Sugar a thought . |
| 18 | Chris Parker never gave her enough time to explain anything properly . |
| 19 | ‘ The scum of this life never give me a problem , ’ Berger said . |
| 20 | Voluntary personal abstention continued in a modest way through to the end of American slavery but plans positively to develop free-labour cultivation in the American South , India or West Africa came to little in the 1850s and the British government never gave any serious consideration after equalisation of the sugar duties beginning in 1846 to a policy of discriminating in favour of free-grown produce . |
| 21 | Side-drum parts are usually written in the treble clef on the note C , as above , but it must be clearly understood that the side-drum never gives a note of definite pitch . |
| 22 | Julius never gave in easily , not over anything . |
| 23 | Photos never give any sense of size . |
| 24 | Hypnotherapy is examined , and while Alec Bedser is sincere in his assertion that he never needed extra motivation ( and also in his justified bellyache that Hutton never gave him enough credit ) , the need is unquestionably there in many cases , and modern sports-thought seeks to help . |
| 25 | Some people at school said look how Mother Francis never gives out to Eve , she 's the real pet ; others said the nuns had to keep her for charity and did n't like her as much as they liked the other girls whose families all contributed something to the upkeep of St Mary 's . |
| 26 | Gifford never gave up and seemed to be making an appreciable dent on the gap , but at the winning post Foinavon was still fifteen lengths in front . |
| 27 | Anyway , the Tallentires never gave up their music because when Grandfather Tallentire set up house in a little farm called Northside he went to buy an organ but took a fancy to a piano and came back with that instead . |
| 28 | But to do him justice , the Prime Minister never gave me any impression that he wanted me to succeed him … . |
| 29 | She had spent a lifetime obeying the rule of her childhood never to give way to her feelings in public , and like many . |
| 30 | The Profitboss never gives up . |