Example sentences of "never take [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Great-Aunt never takes offence , " Sara protested . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But the aggressor never takes advantage of this ; he always stops his thrust before his teeth have touched the skin of his adversary ’ . |
| 4 | If it 's on the tank he must be in the lav , he never takes food in there with him . ’ |
| 5 | Second , encounter with God never takes place in a vacuum . |
| 6 | It can never be win:win if the suggested solution never takes place . |
| 7 | Very frequently the full trial never takes place because the dispute is ended one way or another . |
| 8 | The vendor will be unwilling to allow the purchaser to manage the business in case completion never takes place . |
| 9 | When C f is fortis ( ‘ voiceless ’ ) and C i lenis ( ‘ voiced ’ ) , a context in which in many languages C f would become voiced , assimilation of voice never takes place ; consider the following example : ‘ I like that black dog ’ . |
| 10 | Unlike the West , business luncheons are a rarity and evening entertainment almost never takes place in the home . |
| 11 | It can never take account of all the comments . |
| 12 | ‘ Market forces will never take care of an industry as special as fishing . ’ |
| 13 | The new nations of America will never take root in its soil until they confront what is hidden by their myths and make reparation to the survivors of the holocaust that began five centuries ago . |
| 14 | The courts could not create a ‘ surrogate right of appeal ’ by extending the High Court 's supervisory role through judicial review proceedings , even though it meant a trial might never take place . |
| 15 | As David watches events that can never take place again , such as the Woodbrook dance , and observes the cloaked distress of the family at their growing impecuniousness , he falls deeper and deeper in love with Phoebe , his Venus rising up through adolescence into womanhood . |
| 16 | We would be foolish to leave God out of our reckoning , never taking time to consider deeply why we are so restless with desire . |
| 17 | He worked all through the war at the steelworks , working till nine at night never taking time for the castings to cool . |
| 18 | Anyone who became insolvent by keeping no books , never taking stock and going on year after year without knowing how their affairs stood , was like a child at school who found to his surprise that he had but one halfpenny left in his pocket . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'm never taking medicine from you again . |
| 20 | Although I sailed through O-Level I never took maths any further and I never engaged creatively in the process of doing mathematics . |
| 21 | Although 78pc of people described their health as good , 53pc never took exercise , 29pc smoked and 86pc drank alcohol . |
| 22 | Although 78pc of people described their health as good , 53pc never took exercise , 29pc smoked and 86pc drank alcohol . |
| 23 | Agnes never took part in such conversations ; she never spoke badly of Paul , even though she sensed that this alienated her somewhat from other women . |
| 24 | I registered that it was Mme Guérigny and her brothers and sisters-in-law who uttered the calumnies , and only later that Jean-Claude never took issue with them . |
| 25 | Bettina McNulty , who first met the Ashleys on a business assignment for American House and Garden in the late Seventies , became a good friend , but never took advantage of this by writing anything about Laura 's personal life , which she was well positioned to do . |
| 26 | No breakfast , because he never took breakfast . |
| 27 | In stressing the insecure , non-legal standing of the sambandham husband Nayar informants told the ethnographers that the sambandham partner never took food in the house of his " wife " . |
| 28 | During the time I knew him , he never took acid as he was very much afraid of it , and counselled other people against it in the sense that he felt it might disturb them psychologically , and felt that 's what might happen to him |
| 29 | He never took care of the land , nor did he put anything back . |
| 30 | Officially , the briefings never took place . |