Example sentences of "never [adj] [noun] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would never subject Kirsty to that sort of tug-of-love . ’ |
| 2 | He was decisive and never wasted time on second thoughts . |
| 3 | Although there was never any chance of rival armies fighting out last June — that was a fantasy nourished by pro-democracy propaganda and the American networks — there were considerable tensions of which we now have a better understanding . |
| 4 | For her , there was never any question of suffering fools gladly . |
| 5 | There 's never any pens in this house ! |
| 6 | A point many be slightly rammed home as when , in The Foreman Went To France , the brutality of the Germans in shooting refugees and bombing cities to kill innocent civilians is several times reiterated , but there is never any point in these pictures where one feels the dramatic structure is being distorted for purely message-directed ends . |
| 7 | At this Maria Candida , who had been listening on the stairs , let out a wail of joy at the thought that she would be seeing Portugal again ; Leonora went to embrace her daughter and whisper her blessings , while Gerald , who knew when he was beaten and was never any good in emotional situations , announced that he had important business in the castle yard , and would return as soon as he had attended to it . |
| 8 | There was never any mention of further plans for parachuting after the first operational disaster , and the correspondents agree that he was away in the desert . |
| 9 | There was never any prospect of that happening and now the commitment has been downgraded to one whereby work will have started on all the sites by that date . |