Example sentences of "never [verb] [to-vb] [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 | Even if the means could be found , there were reasons why they might never attempt to beam a distress signal into space . |
10 | Even in those days , the architects never had to consider the word processor , the microcomputer , the fax machine . |
11 | Of these , only the Commodore 64C is now worth buying , and only then if you never plan to add a disc drive . |