Example sentences of "never [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " You must promise me , " he says , " never to wear mourning . " |
| 2 | You ought never to see nutrient deficiencies because they are a sign of incorrect feeding . |
| 3 | Well you 'll never eliminate leakage because leakage is a global term for water that we ca n't account for . |
| 4 | Research will never eliminate risk , but it minimizes it . |
| 5 | These immediate-return hunter-gatherers never suffer anxiety about the future of food supplies and are characterized by improvident , generous , happy-go-lucky personalities . |
| 6 | From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such . |
| 7 | Never make love badly . |
| 8 | Others continue the hostility into adulthood and never make peace with their brothers and sisters — a phenomenon called sibling rivalry . |
| 9 | Never make eye contact . |
| 10 | Leaving a dozen men under Ollokot to besiege Gibbon , Joseph led his people south at noon , hauling the wounded on travois and noting sadly : ‘ The Nez Perce never make war on women and children ; we could have killed a great many women and children while the war lasted , but we would feel ashamed to do so cowardly an act . ’ |
| 11 | Nazmu Virani , although he never drinks alcohol , links his best deal to a brewery . |
| 12 | The first is that it is important never to lose sight of the fact that a computer is an assistant to , not a substitute for , a human researcher . |
| 13 | It was never to lose touch with Jerusalem : hence the repeated journeys of Paul back to the metropolis ( e.g. Acts 18:22 ; 1 9:21 ) and the supervisory visits of Jerusalem leaders to various parts of the expanding Christian arena ( e.g. Acts 8:14 ; 11:22 ) . |
| 14 | Alf is determined never to lose touch with his friends again . |
| 15 | Or I 'll never eat dim-sum with you again . ’ |
| 16 | Relations between working class husbands and wives never lacked affection and it may well be that the poor , early twentieth century working class wife derived as great a satisfaction from the mix of activities she undertook to sustain her family as her modern counterpart does from , typically , a part-time job and the performance of less arduous domestic tasks ( with varying degrees of help from her husband ) . |
| 17 | ‘ I was always pretty confident and never lacked belief in my own ability , ’ he said . |
| 18 | It was , though , a gesture that was pretty much in character , for he never lacked confidence from the moment he scored 156 in his first county match for Sussex . |
| 19 | He never wasted time . |
| 20 | She never wasted time running errands . |
| 21 | He liked to believe that he never sought conflict . |
| 22 | But perhaps the best measure of Paul 's ability was that , although he never sought publicity or acclaim , he was voted Palace 's Player of Year for two consecutive seasons , both of which were spent in Division One , in 1979–80 and 1980–81 . |
| 23 | ‘ I never sought publicity . |
| 24 | I said that , as brewers never sell beer at a loss , why did not the brewers knock £30 or £40 off the price of a barrel to the tenants of their tied houses in the first place ? |
| 25 | In generative phonology , a results from vowel reduction in vowels which have never received stress in the process of the application of stress rules . |
| 26 | The strength of any particular syllable can be measured by counting up the number of times an s symbol occurs above it ; the levels in the sentence shown above can be diagrammed like this ( leaving out syllables that have never received stress at any level ) : |
| 27 | His father had never received compensation from the British Government — his government — for the destruction of his property by those cursed Sinn Feiners . |
| 28 | Patients in the sulphasalazine group had been maintained on the drug at a daily dose of 2 ( 2–3 ) g for 8.0 ( 1.7–2.1 ) years and had never received mesalazine . |
| 29 | In religious communities and seminaries most priests never received Communion ( except on Maundy Thursday ) in a community mass , but removed themselves to celebrate on their own with a single server . |
| 30 | Nine of the group had never received sulphasalazine , the other 25 had been maintained on sulphasalazine 2 ( 2–3 ) g daily for 4.3 ( 0.2–24 ) years before mesalazine treatment . |