Example sentences of "never [verb] [verb] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had never intended to turn the dog loose , only to scare Frankie into scuttling for safety like a terrified rabbit running ahead of the hounds . |
| 2 | Those who never want to see the DOS prompt again can opt to have the Shell loaded each time the computer is turned on . |
| 3 | A Steam Tank never needs to take a break test . |
| 4 | Strange to say in all Communist countries , tower-blocks were always being put up but their development never seemed to diminish the housing shortage . |
| 5 | Amis never bothered to close the cage door ; he had enough keys to lug around and remember , and did n't want to add to them . |
| 6 | It 's happening now , it 's always progressing and it 's always going on and you 're never going to reach an end point , you 're never going to reach a final point , whereas with something like history , I find it 's interesting , but you 're always going over and analysing what 's happened , it 's that much more backward looking , whereas science applied has got more constructive . |
| 7 | Like the other members of the Lanistes-dwelling ( that is what ‘ lanisticola ’ means ) group they are never going to win a beauty contest if their rock-dwelling cousins have entered , but their charm lies in their interesting divergence from the Mbuna norm , and in their much-less boisterous nature . |
| 8 | We are never going to win the World Cup with football played as it is today . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd never have called a boy Apricot . ’ |
| 10 | On the other hand to put the whole blame on Frodo would seem ( to use a distinctively English ethical term ) ‘ unfair ’ ; if he had been an entirely wicked person he would never have reached the Sammath Naur in the first place . |
| 11 | Some of Tuscany 's best wines , now made entirely from Sangiovese , would never have reached the drawing board had not an imported French variety got up a lot of Italian noses . |
| 12 | Buster Keaton would never have worn a straw hat , he stresses , and London is scoured for a felt one . |
| 13 | She would never have won a beauty contest . |
| 14 | Even if the means could be found , there were reasons why they might never attempt to beam a distress signal into space . |
| 15 | He would n't have had enough members to attend a meeting , never mind form a trade union . |
| 16 | We never did crack the watch smuggling racket . |
| 17 | We were soon visual and able to locate the airfield , where once again the radio was not manned , so we never did get a weather report . |
| 18 | Even in those days , the architects never had to consider the word processor , the microcomputer , the fax machine . |
| 19 | Of these , only the Commodore 64C is now worth buying , and only then if you never plan to add a disc drive . |