Example sentences of "[vb mod] never [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children under five should never sleep on a top bunk . |
| 2 | I want to take part in a few more races next year and you 'll never hear of a plump jockey winning races . ’ |
| 3 | No , you 'd never guess in a thousand years . |
| 4 | It 's a form of monologue , of course , and I could never stand before a learned judge and be cross-questioned by counsel and state upon oath all that that tree says to me . |
| 5 | The courage the British captain had shown on numerous dangerous patrols into enemy waters and the havoc he had wrought against shipping there was something I could never match in a hundred years . |
| 6 | Thus deceived , lied to by the leaders they had trusted , in the chill , grey dawn on Friday 6 December 1745 the unbeaten Jacobite army turned its back on its objective and the long and pointless retreat — pointless because they could never hope for a better opportunity than this — began . |
| 7 | These people are going into the familiar local stores where they shop and are walking out with the American dream they could never afford on a minimum wage . |
| 8 | Donegal 's insistence on playing the short ball out of defence cost them at least two points , a luxury they could never afford in a close scoring game . |
| 9 | They carted him like a scarecrow , his heels scoring the gravel , but he was as stubborn as a pig in a cart , he would never squeal without a hard prod ; Donald Stewart the blacksmith had to grip his wrist to make him sign the paper . |
| 10 | The commission in Brussels has vetoed the Strasbourg parliament 's line : Brussels knows that Britain and West Germany would never agree to a total ban . |
| 11 | ‘ You ca n't sell something on that basis because it 's vacuous and vapid and would never sustain on a weekly basis . |
| 12 | She broke up the partnership with exhaustive cunning , prising Arthur away with weapons of sexual mortification that she knew he would never describe to a living soul , least of all to Fred , because she was Fred 's loved wife . |
| 13 | Uncle said he will never forget as a little boy the sight of all these geese coming over the hill beyond our top pasture . |
| 14 | Software designers will never agree to a standard format for the data in their programs so instead there has to be another piece of software that will bundle the information into a standard format to enable it to be transmitted to another computer . |
| 15 | Given this set of circumstances , it could be that the new wave of information technology firms will never turn into a real breaker , but be seen in a few years as just a ripple on the pond . |
| 16 | While accepting that , I would just like to suggest to Cottee that he will never play for a bigger club than Everton . |
| 17 | This check , although similar to the one on Cristofori 's pianos , can never function as a true check . |
| 18 | If little Jimmy 's mother tells everyone that they can never go on a long journey because little Jimmy is always car-sick , then you can be sure that little Jimmy always will be car-sick . |
| 19 | ‘ Since it is mechanical , this perspective can never lead to a complete possession of objects ’ , he has said . |
| 20 | It is not necessary for me to hold that otherwise lawful use of a highway can never amount to a public nuisance , whatever the circumstances and however excessive the use . |
| 21 | Since the European Parliament can never work as a real parliament , power would pass into the back rooms where intrigue and shabby voting deals are the modus operandi . |