Example sentences of "never [verb] [noun] [prep] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others continue the hostility into adulthood and never make peace with their brothers and sisters — a phenomenon called sibling rivalry . |
| 2 | Alf is determined never to lose touch with his friends again . |
| 3 | Britain appeared to have little interest in the area , Russia was preoccupied with her domestic problems , and in any case the Tsar had never forgiven Austria for her lack of support during the Crimean War . |
| 4 | Redland Bricks WE NEVER LOSE SIGHT OF YOUR VISION |
| 5 | They played together a couple of evenings every month , but after that first time by mutual consent they never made love in her house , any more than they did in his . |
| 6 | Typically he was never given acknowledgement for his part in its creation . |
| 7 | And we were walking up and down on the beach at Aldeburgh and the most interesting part of our conversation was that we were saying we both started out as not conservatives , I 've never voted conservative in my life , but we started out as very loyal people . |
| 8 | She had never met Naomi in her life , but in death she grew to love her : she had taken her into herself , had learned her likings , had read her books and tried ( although not herself musical ) to listen to her music , she had spoken much of her to the children , had insisted upon treating her as an ally , as a friend beyond the grave , had reinvented her and kept her close to them — oh , not without awareness of the dangers , of the necessary distortions and consolations , but then all life is danger , and Liz had embarked willingly upon its full tide with those three small boys , with that ambitious , importunate widower and that friendly ghost . |
| 9 | Details of the state of his toilet had been supplied by the cleaners and ‘ a Harley Street analyst ’ concluded that the Australian media mogul had never overcome struggles with his mother over toilet training . |
| 10 | You mean you never put sand in his pockets ? |
| 11 | The village is buzzing — Arthur you must never , never put objects up your nose , it is quite dreadfully dangerous — as I was saying , that gossip is loud today about you . |
| 12 | Evidently Francis had never made advances to his cousin . |
| 13 | so I 'd never had blokes in my class , it was really really weird |
| 14 | But she had never had confirmation of his death , as she had had of those of his parents and hers . |
| 15 | Perhaps it would have been better for the apple if it had never had ideas above its station , if it had never started carrying around so much symbolic baggage . |
| 16 | Back came the pompous reply : ‘ We never attribute emotions to Her Majesty . ’ |
| 17 | The magazine described Mr Donovan as the boy with bleached hair , although the actor told the court he had never used chemicals on his hair — ‘ just lemon juice in the sun sometimes ’ . |
| 18 | The magazine described Mr Donovan as the boy with bleached hair , although the actor told the court he had never used chemicals on his hair — ‘ just lemon juice in the sun sometimes ’ . |
| 19 | She had spent a lifetime obeying the rule of her childhood never to give way to her feelings in public , and like many . |
| 20 | The other is that George shot Lennie because Lennie would have either gone to jail where Lennie could not have coped , or been shot by Curley and never reached heaven with his dreams fulfilled . |
| 21 | I have never worn Chunni over my head so I just wore it round my neck . |
| 22 | And I 'm Sagittarius but I 've never played tennis in my life . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I never discovered details of my father 's method of escape from his home-land . |
| 25 | You see , she never lost sight of her dream and everyone was welcome to share it . |
| 26 | Despite the injustice , he never lost sight of his love for football , winning two shields at inter-prison soccer matches . |
| 27 | I had been there once or twice but she had never set foot in my father 's new home . |
| 28 | Their trust in the Tsar himself remained unshaken : but it never entailed acceptance of their subordination to officialdom , the army , or the nobility . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Most women never become replicas of their celluloid and paper dreams . |