Example sentences of "never [vb pp] the [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fem Sap has never recognized the sort of hierarchy which says that only published authors , or professors of literature , have something worth saying . |
| 2 | None of them could disagree that it was a species of tyranny that left an unhappy debtor to the mercy of a remorseless creditor whose affluence prevented him from knowing the sorrows of adversity and who , nursed in the lap of plenty , had never heard the call of hunger or knew the cry of distress . |
| 3 | ‘ My child has never heard the sound of laughter , ’ said the woman , ‘ and I do n't want him to die without hearing it . ’ |
| 4 | He realized with a vicious clarity that he had never considered the possibility of discovery . |
| 5 | For it remains a curious anomaly that although the marathon has been the classic test of long distance endurance throughout nearly a century of Olympic history , the fastest timings have never enjoyed the status of world records . |
| 6 | Quite apart from this practical difficulty , however , the truth is that English law has never applied the conception of ownership to land . |
| 7 | There 's so much good stuff that has never seen the light of day . |
| 8 | He has never had the service from midfield that Sharp , Gray and Lineker had . |
| 9 | The young nobleman , Gontran de Boismassif , has just married his equally youthful cousin , but is suddenly acutely conscious that he has never had the facts of life explained to him , and neither his bride nor his tutor ( likewise innocent ) are of any assistance . |
| 10 | Mrs Hodges had never mastered the idea of colour in a salad , she seemed to think what you needed was a match . |
| 11 | Like the Americans , many of them had never crossed the Channel for pleasure before . |
| 12 | ‘ The continentals have never understood the delights of nursery food . ’ |
| 13 | Chicherin ( with benefit of hindsight ) described the challenges which lay ahead as follows : [ Alexander ] was called upon to execute one of the hardest tasks which can confront an autocratic ruler : to completely remodel the enormous state which had been entrusted to his care , to abolish an age-old order founded on slavery , to replace it with civic decency and freedom , to establish justice in a country which had never known the meaning of legality , to redesign the entire administration , to introduce freedom of the press in the context of untrammelled authority , to call new forces to life at every turn and set them on firm legal foundations , to put a repressed and humiliated society on its feet and to give it the chance to flex its muscles . |
| 14 | Also there is something more dangerous still , a stirring of youth , disappointed , aggrieved youth , which has never known the discipline of war . |
| 15 | Previous nudes , even when taking the form of courtisanes , never allowed the odour of money to tarnish their classical form ; in Olympia , money is clearly at issue , sex becomes a commodity . |
| 16 | Both came to the Sunday services immediately after coming along to the centre , one of the lads having a belief in Jesus but had never taken the step of repentance and asking Him into his heart , when he did his reaction was to say he felt the chains fall from him and that he believes Jesus has broken his addiction to alcohol . |
| 17 | Dr Mann , a leading American psychiatrist , has written : ‘ The church has failed me and most of my patients , because it has never discovered the secret of community fellowship . ’ |
| 18 | High on its waterless ridge , Battle grew with the fortunes of its abbey , but never achieved the sort of wealth that allowed Chichester to assert its independence . |
| 19 | Of course , she had come up against death , or the prospect of it , many times in the course of her work , but somehow she had never acquired the sort of immunity against emotional involvement , that almost instinctive shutting off , as so many of her colleagues had seemed to do . |