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Example sentences of "never [vb -s] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Nazmu Virani , although he never drinks alcohol , links his best deal to a brewery .
2	and then it finished and he always turns video off but he never turns telly off , so I turned the telly off
3	This is a distortion of Christianity which never separates creation and salvation in that way .
4	‘ Boris Zhukov never produces work with flaws . ’
5	‘ All sins will be forgiven the sons of men , and whatever blasphemies they utter ; but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness … for they said , ‘ He has an unclean spirit ’ ' More light is shed on this verse by the form in which it occurs in the ‘ Q ’ material ( sayings of Jesus preserved in Matthew and Luke independently of Mark ) .
6	The government never has money to build enough houses .
7	‘ Never has homo faber better understood that he has made history and never has he felt so powerless before history ’ .
8	‘ A Brief History … ’ charts the group 's years on EMI , 20 songs ranging from the disaffected to the disenchanted , and never has pop polemic been so incisive .
9	‘ A Brief History … ’ charts the group 's years on EMI , 20 songs ranging from the disaffected to the disenchanted , and never has pop polemic been so incisive .
10	And even now , as he never has time off for spending the twenty-something quid a week they 'll dish him for the one-hundred-and-twenty-hour stint he puts in most weeks , he could just afford a wife and kid .
11	Never has fear gripped me so tightly , yet it was exhilarating , fantastic even .
12	Somewhere I had read that a gentleman is one who never causes pain ; perhaps I was trying to be a gentleman .
13	Anselm Kiefer , who never allows abstraction to completely take over his imagery , shows new pieces at Goodman .
14	But despite the fact that it is a major national organisation , Forte never loses sight of another equally important fact , that this is a people business , run by people for people .
15	Although in both books Hilton never loses sight of the spirituality possible for actives each book is addressed to a different audience : Scale 1 to an enclosed and apparently illiterate anchoress " redyng of holy writt may < wel vse " ( 15.288a. – 88 ) ; while Scale 2 seems more generally addressed to a wider and not necessarily wholly contemplative audience .
16	Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ .
17	He never , never , never loses control .
18	I know , for a fact , one person us , never uses canteen at
19	Howard never says stuff against them .
20	The PROFITBOSS never refuses help to anyone .
21	She never minds being first out of a game and never winning .
22	If Hell exists , it must consist of being eternally sick on a ship which crosses the Narrow Seas but never reaches shore .
23	Now the river 's flow varies on a daily basis , according to demands for hydroelectric power at the dam , and never reaches spring flood proportions .
24	The Profitboss likes action , and by definition he never sees action on the board .
25	The Profitboss never buys customer belief , for he knows that in the end both he and the customer would pay dearly .
26	Familiarity never breeds contempt here , only a growing affection .
27	He 's never been really loving towards me , never shows affection , except when making love .
28	At some maxima Mira can reach the second magnitude , and in 1779 it is said to have risen to 1.7 , much brighter than Polaris , while in 1969,1977 and 1987 I estimated it as 2.3 at its peak , though on other occasions it never exceeds magnitude 4 .
29	" Great-Aunt never takes offence , " Sara protested .
30	Because God never takes advantage of our intimacy with him , we know that we are safe , more secure , and truer in his presence than anywhere else .