Example sentences of "never [vb infin] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Eleanor said she could never think up anything to tell the priest at confession Clary was like lightning . |
| 2 | ‘ He would take things on loan but he could never make up his mind . |
| 3 | Rapid shooting may give many frames , but quantity will never make up for quality . |
| 4 | Even Francis Fairlie , the man they all joke about because he can never make up his mind to marry or to start a serious career or to buy a house or to do anything else that may define and announce his character to the world — even Francis Fairlie has managed to get himself here ! |
| 5 | Morris could never make up his mind about Enoch . |
| 6 | Morag stayed at the small , white house at different times of the year and she could never make up her mind which particular time she liked the best . |
| 7 | Genet describes him as ‘ so obviously both a pimp — a barracks or red-light district ponce — and a whore that I could never make out what he was doing among the fedayeen ’ ( p. 153 ) . |
| 8 | He is pompously self-satisfied and dogmatically opinionated , and ‘ could never make out why everybody was not quite satisfied ’ . |
| 9 | Occasionally he talked in his sleep but she could never make out what he was saying . |
| 10 | He says You know go ho I go home , he says , And I could never make out wether you praise me or criticize me . |
| 11 | Black Agnes was outraged , declaring that she would never yield up Dunbar Castle to the English , despite her traitor husband , and she was now seeking help . |
| 12 | That was something he would never yield up — it was his protection if the Tsar 's soldiers ever tracked him down and tried to drag him back to his regiment to be court-martialled and shot , which was what Mickey Aronson said would happen . |
| 13 | Alice Wilson 's cellar dwelling with its brick floor ‘ so damp that it seemed as if the last washing could never dry up ’ would not be far distant from the Davenports ' if the nature of that ‘ dampness ’ were defined . |
| 14 | She 'll never pack up Joyce , she wo n't , she 'll never pack up |
| 15 | She 'll never pack up Joyce , she wo n't , she 'll never pack up |
| 16 | On the eighth end Ipswich , trailing 13–4 , dropped a maximum eight to fall 21–4 behind and could never catch up . |
| 17 | ‘ We are so far behind I fear we shall never catch up , ’ he says , gloomily . |
| 18 | We 'd never catch up . |
| 19 | She would never catch up with the enormous range of reading which seemed to be taken for granted by Bob and his friends , never . |
| 20 | If I can just reach the horses and reach up and untether them , I believe we could be off and down the road and the creature would never catch up with us . |
| 21 | The interpreter Kelly functions as a surrogate for the reader who is ashamed of his or her literary ignorance : ‘ Gaps , so many gaps in her reading , she 'll never catch up ’ ( 42 ) . |
| 22 | We will never catch up with this galaxy , no matter how hard we try . |
| 23 | While I agree that worm watching will probably never catch on as a mass pursuit , something well known here in Cornwall is to observe seagulls tap dancing on the lawn after rain . |
| 24 | People said they 'd never , never catch on , teabags |
| 25 | By 1928 Vidor was almost a cult figure amongst movie intellectuals and when he was in Europe in that year all those who hoped for better things listened with interest as he pointed out that independent film-makers and the ‘ little theatre movement ’ would never compete with Hollywood and would never break through to the large undeveloped market unless they attracted sufficient investment to improve their product . |
| 26 | However , most of us now admit that reason unassisted by observation can never break out of the closed circle of logic and mathematics . |
| 27 | He calms down , rasps , ‘ I 'll never grow up , will I ? |
| 28 | ‘ Why did Uncle Titch never grow up ? ’ he asked once when they were home having tea . |
| 29 | You must concentrate on a dairy and maybe a few tender crops we could never grow up north . |
| 30 | Marcella would never grow up , but was it possible that , along with a childish naivety , she had carried forward into adult life the single-minded ruthlessness of the young ? |