Example sentences of "never [adv] [vb infin] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean that the world was once so simple , and suddenly it 's full of amazingly interesting things that you 'll never ever get to the end of as long as you live . |
| 2 | Most learn by trial and error that they can never really get to the bottom of the problem if they did not witness it and so emphasize the importance of sharing and co-operating in the family so everyone stays happy . |
| 3 | I realise that you can never really win against the water ; it will always triumph in the end , seeping and soaking and building up and undermining and overflowing . |
| 4 | Given fluent processing of first language material , the articulatory loop may never consciously intrude into the interpreter 's performance . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , perhaps the Walker Spur , ’ I admitted reluctantly , knowing I could never even ski to the bottom of it . |
| 6 | One result of this moral panic was that , even as the anxiety mentioned by Furlong ( ibid. ) forced us to react to these public demands with some arrests , we insiders with ‘ special knowledge ’ , who were working face to face with the counter-culture , knew there was a different social reality abroad which we could never adequately explain to the entrepreneur or encapsulate for the media headline . |
| 7 | For the last hour his progressively alcoholised brain had reminded him of the consequences of justice ( small ‘ j ’ ) : of bringing a criminal before the courts , ensuring that he was convicted for his sins ( or was it his crimes ? ) , and then getting him locked up for the rest of his life , perhaps , in a prison where he would never again go to the WC without someone observing such an embarrassingly private function , someone smelling him , someone humiliating him . |
| 8 | If she was her mother 's sort then she would never never get among the life that everybody else seemed to get . |