Example sentences of "never [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've never jumped on the bandwagon 'cos it 's clearly going to end in tears , but there 's definitely been a vibe that has n't been around since the days of the Buzzcocks and The Electric Circus . |
| 2 | But the Gover School has never depended on major names . |
| 3 | Markets have never depended on the existence of detailed information about costs and outcomes : [ … |
| 4 | Though she could well believe a secret hiding-place existed , the housekeeper said , she 'd never stumbled on one , nor had Signor Diomede ever mentioned it . |
| 5 | In practice this is often not possible because the full dataset is not archived or because the ‘ identification variables ’ are never included on the machine-readable version of the dataset . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's only seven years older than me and so I 've never looked on her as a mother figure . |
| 7 | We 've never looked on EMF as a career . |
| 8 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 9 | Living things , of course , were never designed on drawing boards . |
| 10 | He told inmates at Pentonville Prison , London : ‘ I have never sat on such a hard chair in my life . ’ |
| 11 | and you are never revealed on your battle field would be to erm phone up Trailfinders or S T A , I think I might 've asked S T A , and find out which would be the best card , which would be the best card to have . |
| 12 | ‘ You have never crewed on a yacht ? ’ |
| 13 | When he passed through an ivy-clad trellis arch and saw the man he sought , however , raking dead leaves and twigs into an incinerator , he realized how absurd the idea was that they could somehow be twin actors of the same part who had never met on stage till this unscripted moment . |
| 14 | Although bus services were started , they never impinged on the tramway services . |
| 15 | He had come to France ( in which he spent more than half his life as king of England ) and had , as contemporaries recognised , achieved considerable conquests , something which his predecessors had never done on that scale or within so short a period of time . |
| 16 | Lucifer 's face was so devil-like as he said it that he frightened even Izzie , a thing he had never done on stage . |
| 17 | ‘ Write my memoirs ? ’ she said , and smiled , but such a smile as Erika had never seen on her grandmother 's face before : wry , mocking , and , shockingly , cynical . |
| 18 | It implies that 90% of the universe is composed of something other than everyday atoms — swarms of exotic particles never seen on earth . |
| 19 | That was the time when I stood in all that fluid with my boots on , a priceless carpet under my feet , hounds never seen on the earth before lying still and obedient before me , staring out of that maternal portico with its flanking columns , down the long avenue of limes that lead to birth , life and Arcadia . |
| 20 | He had gone on to a party at a rich woman 's house , he explained , and seen a display of drinks such as he had never seen on earth before . |
| 21 | The result was that the real Britain was also never seen on the screen . |
| 22 | Words came from Adam in a toneless chant : ‘ Then the sea rose in a great wave and swept away the witch 's daughter , and she was never seen on Starr Hills again … ’ |
| 23 | That evening , as we walked through the village that Eric had never seen on our way to the orphanage , I felt proud and happy that he had come back . |
| 24 | The UK has never operated on the basis of giving subsidised loans ( as in France ) instead of capital grants for investment schemes , though there is no reason why such a system should not be instigated . |
| 25 | A more preposterous and insolent demand was never made on the leader of any political party . |
| 26 | Strained partnership — Grizz Wyllie ( right ) was never sold on having John Hart as a partner . |
| 27 | She 'd certainly never reflected on the nature of performance before . |
| 28 | I 've never slept on my own afore . ’ |
| 29 | Ludens had never got on so easily with a woman , not even with Sylvia , who had always been ‘ playing the feminine ’ . |
| 30 | Mrs Cummings ' daughter-in-law was similar to , though less antagonistic than , Mrs Kitchener 's daughter , in that she said she found looking after her mother-in-law a strain , that it was time-consuming , and putting a strain on her marriage ; she and her mother-in-law had never got on very well , and she ‘ would like to get her into a Home , ’ . |