Example sentences of "[verb] never [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every one of the Pack was firmly resolved never to give the new farmer cause for taking away their wonderful meeting-place from them . |
| 2 | She was resigned never to meet the right man . |
| 3 | In fact 77% of those interviewed never read a daily paper at all , and 75% read no weekly or other non-daily paper . |
| 4 | He has made himself so by resolving never to make the same mistake twice . |
| 5 | But she has never seen a real hummingbird . |
| 6 | He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save . |
| 7 | Punishment alone has never made a bad character into a good one , or even ensured temporary good behaviour . |
| 8 | Since then , Labour has never made a generous offer of co-operation with other Scottish groups or parties which recognised their differing views on home rule or democracy . |
| 9 | Paul Smith has never attended the British fashion awards . |
| 10 | Two years later the moratorium was confirmed , although it has never become a formal agreement . |
| 11 | It has never generated the cosmopolitan energy typical of Berlin , nor the creative ferment associated with other German cities , such as Düsseldorf or Cologne . |
| 12 | A new race of novelists may result , making it possible to refute with more confidence than hitherto B. S. Johnson 's fear that the British novel has never fulfilled the huge potential created by the irruption of modernism into the literature of the twentieth century . |
| 13 | There is no champion tennis player who has never served a double fault ; no professional musician who had never played a wrong note ; and no doctor or nurse who has not made an error of diagnosis . |
| 14 | Bruising , it is reasonable to suppose , has never served the adaptive function of informing others that the body has been hurt . |
| 15 | Some MOX fuel has been made — the lack of an economic rationale has never stopped the nuclear industry trying things — but as yet it has used up only 12.5 tonnes of plutonium . |
| 16 | ‘ The team has never stopped the hard work and the new Celica has improved over the year . |
| 17 | Fribble , still eating his cheese , said , ‘ And the legend has never said a legitimate child . ’ |
| 18 | However , it appears that there is no way of reclaiming stolen objects once they have been traced , largely because the UK has never ratified the 1970 Unesco convention on prohibiting the illicit export of cultural property . |
| 19 | She has never used a great deal of make-up . |
| 20 | DEC has never used a Western Research Labs-designed computer architecture , although the unit was originally set up to find ways of building the fastest possible computers . |
| 21 | The Royals at least belong to ‘ us ’ — but the EC has never captured the national imagination . |
| 22 | To date , the USSR has never attacked a stronger opponent , but it is not out of character for her to steal a march on her equals when their guard is down . |
| 23 | IBM Corp has now shipped 700,000 copies of OS/2 2.0 since it announced the product on March 31 and claims it has exceeded its initial unit sales projection — ‘ We 're well on track to surpass many industry expectations , ’ it said , but Reuter notes that IBM has previously said its expects to sell ‘ millions ’ of copies of OS/2 this year but has never provided a specific forecast . |
| 24 | Like so many in the New Zealand tour party , Fox has never experienced the intimidating atmosphere generated at the great sporting shrine and may have taken time to slip into the groove . |
| 25 | A Coventry couple with two children : she has never had a paid job , he worked until recently in a Birmingham car factory where his last take-home pay was £65 . |
| 26 | The American Left has never had a solid basis . |
| 27 | Julian reached a far smaller audience than any of these later reformers and she has never had a decisive effect on the history of Christianity as they did , but she has acquired a considerable following in our own day . |
| 28 | FPB Chief Executive Stan Mendham said : ‘ The private business community has never had a legal format tailored to its needs . |
| 29 | ‘ Laura has never had a proper Christmas , ’ said 26-year-old Fran , back home in Eccles . |
| 30 | The British State has never had a formal foundation in the aftermath of revolution or war , or as the result of an act of will by an enlightened despot . |