Example sentences of "[noun pl] never [verb] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The need for the new test is underlined by a report today from the Royal Automobile Club and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents which suggests that drivers never read the Highway Code after passing their driving test .
2 His parents never exchanged a cross word .
3 The tragedy is that , although many small settlements never had a railway station , the inter-small-town rail network has been destroyed nationally and the service is now effectively inter-city , so that ‘ the rural branch line is a thing of the past … ’
4 But the stories never swept the reading public off its feet the way the Sherlock Holmes tales did .
5 They travel forwards instead of en place in échappé relevés after breaking the rule that the arms never cross the centre line of the body and are always ( except in arabesque ) rounded .
6 ‘ If men never considered the exchange rate in precisely those terms , ’ the man wrote , ‘ then the Caprice and the Ivy would have given up on the supper trade decades ago . ’
7 He must get it right today , however , if he is not to land himself with the label of being one of the best horses never to win a Gold Cup .
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