Example sentences of "[noun sg] never do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you see the bit where what should a man that wears a wig never do ? |
| 2 | Roman law never did have a doctrine that trusts should be set up by imperative words . |
| 3 | The law as to this is best stated in the words of the judgment in Foster v. Mackinnon ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 C.P. 704 , 711 where it is said that a signature obtained by fraud ‘ is invalid not merely on the ground of fraud , where fraud exists , but on the ground that the mind of the signer did not accompany the signature ; in other words , that he never intended to sign , and therefore in contemplation of law never did sign , the contract to which his name is appended . ’ |
| 4 | Only seven-year-old vegetarian Alero Provo never did . |
| 5 | Michel Foucault ( 1926–1994 ) , who studied under Althusser , took the step his teacher never did and distanced himself from Marxism while remaining politically radical . |
| 6 | Promise me as your husband never to do anything like that . ’ |
| 7 | Pointy-Beard never did make it to his feet . |
| 8 | Foreignness for me provided a difference that moved me in a way that sexual difference never did ’ ( ‘ Home and Abroad ’ , 44 , my emphasis ) . |
| 9 | It would also explain why the Attorney-General , as representative of both government and people , always has standing to protect public rights ( although in practice the Attorney never does sue where the respondent is a department of central government ) . |
| 10 | Even under Anne , when the ministry of the day never did lose a General Election , it was not always able to get the type of Parliament it wanted . |
| 11 | ‘ Guilt never did anybody any good , did it ? ’ she asks across three thousand miles . |
| 12 | Esmerelda never did show up ; nobody saw her after me , as far as Diggs ' enquiries of trawlers and drilling-rigs and so on could show . |
| 13 | I mean I kind of you know , you give a start and unfortunately if you 're in bed with somebody else you tend to wake them up , because my wife never does that , she 's just too good to be true . |
| 14 | Father never did it . |
| 15 | ‘ But my father never did try to see me , ’ Jenna said miserably . |
| 16 | But my father never did a regular job after he come out th out of the army you know , I think it was something had happened to him in the army , he 'd got erm bomb blast or something or he was near s something when it went off and he got buried . |
| 17 | Admittedly , the ‘ eat shit — a million flies ca n't be wrong ’ argument never did hold much water , but when every single person in the place is singing ‘ Altogether Now ’ or ‘ Love See No Colour ’ , waving their arms and jumping about , with sweat dripping from the walls , you 'd have to be a hell of a snob not to be slightly moved . |
| 18 | Here , too , though we are not looking to carve up the territory between us a degree of competition never does any harm we should at least be getting together to think out how best to collaborate in the future . |
| 19 | Miss Anderson : ‘ Could it be that your uncle never did bad things to you ? ’ , she replied : ‘ I do n't know . |
| 20 | The course of unlawful love never does run smooth ; or with dignity ; or with romance . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ The course of true love never did run smooth . |
| 22 | But the path of true love never did run smooth and who could blame Orsino for overlooking this waif-life creature with the short , dark , cropped hair for the Countess Olivia , she of the long flowing hair and dresses . |
| 23 | Hierarchy never did have its day . |
| 24 | I 'll take care never to do it again . |
| 25 | The one thing never to do if your dog starts to stray from you is to chase off after it . |
| 26 | In fact the painter never did return to Koraloona — and Marama , his mistress , always thought he had abandoned her , and over the years became obsessed by bitterness at the betrayal , for she never knew that in 1903 the painter had died , after she had given birth to a daughter , a baby girl so white that her mother christened her Tiare , after the beautiful white flower of the South Seas . |
| 27 | A bit of fat never did a boy any harm , but we 're not going to pay for it as if it was lean . |
| 28 | He was the first star to weather the storm of a dope scandal , emerging unscathed and proving the Indianapolis Star wrong when it prophesied that ‘ The public never did — never will — laugh off a dope scandal involving a screen favourite performer . |
| 29 | That 's one thing Julian Lennon 's Dad never did . |
| 30 | ‘ Malt whisky never did anyone anything but good . ’ |