Example sentences of "never [verb] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US Congress has never uttered a word of criticism against the Israelis . |
| 2 | And in the Commons in 1860 he declared : " I have never uttered a word in favour of universal franchise either in this House or elsewhere . " |
| 3 | Although not an agricultural innovator , he was an astute farmer and businessman : he took great care in selecting seed and breeding stock ; he knew the best markets in the region for a wide variety of products ; and he endeavoured never to miss an opportunity for profit . |
| 4 | I was sad about this because I am a clubbable person by nature , and have never regarded a game of golf as anything but an occasion of pleasurable social exchange ; but an end to Muirfield was the price I had to pay for the championing of Meehan 's cause . |
| 5 | While you should continue to work steadfastly towards your goals , never allowing a sense of defeat to interfere with your long-term ambitions , you must anticipate some devious manoeuvres on the part of others and some strange developments — even a serious attempt to knock you off your perch . |
| 6 | How I never got a dose of clap I 'll never know ! |
| 7 | Because he never got a lass into trouble — except once , and that was when he was just a lad . |
| 8 | One Afro-Caribbean woman described how she felt that she was never given a choice of provision for her son , and objected to being told he should be in a specialist nursery for his own good . |
| 9 | So far James has never given a scrap of trouble and has passed his MoT test with flying colours . |
| 10 | I ca n't help but think , chairman , in my career I was never given a bottle of whisky to help with the |
| 11 | I will never make an apology for increase in member 's allowances and resources to support members in training etcetera and the tools to do a good job , given the tools , give you the tools to do a good job . |
| 12 | Labour has never won a majority in parliament against a press so tilted against it as now . |
| 13 | Mime has never enjoyed a place on centre stage , it lives in the shadows of fringe theatre and the Big Top . |
| 14 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |
| 15 | Since making his debut against Pakistan in 1978–79 as a 19-year-old , he has never missed a Test through injury , a truly remarkable performance for a fast bowler . |
| 16 | ‘ I play hockey and I have never missed a day through sickness in 17 years , even with torn muscles and ligaments , ’ he said . |
| 17 | How sad for those sailors never to receive a letter from home ; never to know if the families they had left behind were safe and well and managing to get enough to eat ; not even daring to wonder if they were still alive . |
| 18 | The other thing I would say is this that the management , whilst they very rarely agree with what Eric has got to say I 've never met a member of management at any level , at any level that does n't respect what he 's got to say and that 's a tremendous , er psychological blow before they even get round the table , because he 's completely disarming and his record in terms as vic er for , of victories , for individual members and groups of mem er , members , er , is legendary and I think apart from his ability it 's the respect in which he 's held by , by everybody , by everybody . |
| 19 | " The Koran tells me never to drink a drop of wine . " |
| 20 | Yes now what I meant was that , that erm in a group like this , the the th th the leader or the leadership role may be relatively minimal and the individualism of the members may be relevant , but I hope it was cos I I think it 's a mistake for class in groups and that so one would hope in this kind of group , the individual variation would be so important that these kind of group phenomena that Freud is talking about in this book but clearly in other groups they 're they 're more important , partly because you can never organize a group by kind of having a meeting with everybody . |
| 21 | Who can honestly say they have never done a bit of work off-the-books or used the services of somebody who was doing so ? |
| 22 | He 's never done a stroke of work since . ’ |
| 23 | They uniformly show young , narrow-shouldered , and in so far as one can see through the draperies , narrow-hipped , flat-chested women with long pale hands which have clearly never done a stroke of work . |
| 24 | Dr Neil could have given her several answers , beginning with the beautiful hands lying in her lap which had visibly never done a stroke of work in their owner 's life , but said instead , ‘ A strange place for a young lady like yourself to look for it . ’ |
| 25 | In his second letter he wrote , ‘ I have never seen a cradle without thinking of a grave ; the sight of a naked woman makes me imagine her skeleton . ’ |
| 26 | I have never seen a hunt in progress , although I recall vaguely as a child being taken to watch a Meet when I was visiting relatives in Piercebridge . |
| 27 | It 's the same as that place in Australia where they have n't seen rain for seventeen years , I mean there 's children who are grown up now at college have never seen a spot of rain , I 'd hate that I 'd rather have our , sometimes dismal climate . |
| 28 | ‘ I have never seen a cut in education spending , ’ he said . |
| 29 | He liked to tell one that he was a dilettante , ‘ I 've never written a line for publication nor put brush to water-colour , in short I never did a stroke of work , except for those few years teaching at Harvard , and I must admit that I enjoyed every moment of them — in retrospect . ’ |
| 30 | And then And never made a mistake of course , he tried to teach me but it was just a waste of time . |