Example sentences of "[conj] never [verb] [prep] [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But quite a number of the teenage girl compositors in the sample were described as " regular attenders at the Mission " , something rarely or never remarked of their brothers . |
| 2 | Over a third said they hardly ever or never thought about their colour , and nearly half thought of themselves as neither black or white , but ‘ half and half ’ . |
| 3 | George Felix was surely in a rage , but he was also enjoying being angry , and that was something that never happened to her father , whose rages had made anger such a familiar monster . |
| 4 | It had been his only relationship , a habit of natural loyalty founded in his childhood , further cemented by the dependence of the field officer on his Control , and never questioned in its foundations … perhaps because , in accepting the Colonel as his father-figure , he had been able to protect himself from the manner of his real father 's death . |
| 5 | Two years later , he left work to visit his sick father in Peking , and never returned to his unit . |
| 6 | Friendships made in this country were warmly reciprocated by the Silvers in their beautiful old house in Mt Vernon Street in Boston , where they lived an elegant and ‘ simple ’ life : they never owned a car , and never cooked in their kitchen ; all meals except breakfast were eaten in restaurants . |
| 7 | This process is then repeated and never varies throughout your pattern : two rows with the main carriages and one row with the transfer carriage . |
| 8 | who has purpose and never throws in his hand in adversity , |
| 9 | He was himself forced to remain in England to defend his interests and never settled in his colony ; he appointed first his brother Leonard [ q.v. ] and then his second son Charles to the post of governor . |
| 10 | His harmonic conception , founded on the example of Clifford Brown and Freddie Hubbard , was unalloyed bop , and as such derivative , but he played with great facility and imagination within those boundaries , and never faltered in his articulation , however fast the tempo or complex the harmonic sequence . |
| 11 | Perhaps the one aristocrat that felt the greatest affinity with his fellow deaf was Lord Carbery , who was born deaf and never spoke in his life . |
| 12 | The state must , therefore , like the parents of early childhood , protect the citizen and satisfy all his needs ; the state must , again like the parent of the infant , forgive , indulge and tolerate all his activities , even the parricidal , aggressive ones ; it must accept all criticism , but never criticize in its turn ; it must provide , but never demand in its turn ; it must love , cherish and value , but accept hatred , indifference and contempt in return . |
| 13 | The state must , therefore , like the parents of early childhood , protect the citizen and satisfy all his needs ; the state must , again like the parent of the infant , forgive , indulge and tolerate all his activities , even the parricidal , aggressive ones ; it must accept all criticism , but never criticize in its turn ; it must provide , but never demand in its turn ; it must love , cherish and value , but accept hatred , indifference and contempt in return . |
| 14 | Rarely staying in the same place long , as though never satisfied with their accommodation , forever charging about the loch , the problem for anglers is always the same : finding where they lie . |
| 15 | Their final work , a book on the geology of Scotland , though never completed in their lifetimes , was published in 1930 as it stood at the time of their deaths . |