Example sentences of "never [verb] anything [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without these simple things as a foundation you would never build anything positive at all ’ |
| 2 | Private pilots who have never flown anything bigger than a C172 or a Warrior could without trouble convince themselves they were sitting on the flight deck of an airliner . |
| 3 | I mean , Stu would never attain anything more than a kind of addled bopping , but that summer he brought a certain careless vivacity to the matter of heel-and-toe . |
| 4 | ‘ That 's probably because you never say anything amusing , Katherine , darling , ’ Diana replied . |
| 5 | Readers may be surprised to learn that I have never owned anything larger than a 48″ × 18″ × 18″ , though at one point many years ago a 72″ × 18″ ( angle iron , with a divided front like the windscreen in very old Morris Minors ) nearly came to live with me . |
| 6 | Handsome young rascal with hands that had never lifted anything heavier than a pen by the look of them . |
| 7 | The truth was though , that until now he had never possessed anything much , so how could he know ? |
| 8 | Now we 've never done anything other than very very s briefly precis |
| 9 | ‘ I 've never done anything worthwhile like writing a book or painting a wonderful picture . ’ |
| 10 | I 've never done anything wrong how can I , how can he know me ? |
| 11 | Although Ross had insisted on seeing her every day , during that time he had never done anything more than kiss her hand . |
| 12 | ‘ So he 'd never done anything special to you ? ’ |
| 13 | I 've never seen anything suspicious in the club . ’ |
| 14 | I know you write under the pseudonym of Ben MacLean and wish to keep your literary activities secret , so I have never seen anything wrong in taking in your mail . ’ |
| 15 | I hate him , I loathe him ; he never says anything nice to me . |
| 16 | Er that but never says anything positive . |
| 17 | She was well and in good form , but unfortunately I never see her now without Herman Schrijver John Pope-Hennessy was the fourth ) , and he is so frivolous and gossippy [ sic ] — which one would love in other circumstances — that Ivy never says anything interesting , and there are always the same conversations . |
| 18 | Stephen would never do anything mean or underhand . |
| 19 | the English working class … can never do anything decisive here in England until it separates its policy with regard to Ireland in the most definite way from the policy of the ruling class , until it not only makes common cause with the Irish , but actually takes the initiative in dissolving the Union established in 1801 , and replacing it by a federal relationship . |
| 20 | They think they 're wonderful people who can never do anything wrong . |
| 21 | You will never do anything wrong or shameful . |
| 22 | I 've never had anything better |
| 23 | And yet Eve had never had anything new , she knew that whatever dress she got for today would be a reject . |
| 24 | Let's face it , all she 'd have to do would be to sit and let him sleep it off for a while , it was probably what the kid needed most , and he 'd never remember anything different . |
| 25 | And they would never use anything other than olive oil from the nearest olive tree , and red wine vinegar . |
| 26 | Yeah I know she , she 's never got anything nice to say , she always complain . |
| 27 | I honestly think he 's never thought anything nasty about anyone in his life , which is what makes him occasionally so impossible . |
| 28 | Never wears anything jazzy . |
| 29 | Just never get anything interesting in it and look she has this in the middle , you see , she has this , this , and it makes it so beautiful . |
| 30 | If you hear a good song you tell all your friends about it but radio never breaks anything new . |