Example sentences of "never [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You must wear false eyelashes , ’ she said , ‘ and very , very expensive scent , and you must never , never sit on a park bench with a person of your own age . ’ |
| 2 | I would not normally expect this from a Severum — but then I have never heard of a Severum eating Halfbeaks . |
| 3 | To which one lady said , ‘ That would be a complete lie , have you never heard of a Spirit Entity ? ’ |
| 4 | He says he 's never heard of a church charging . |
| 5 | I have never flown in a tail dragger before but I would like to in the near future . |
| 6 | Other stories about Dic , Little Dick the Carpenter — how he never got to a rugby match because there were too many pubs on the way , how he was burnt all over in a pit explosion , wrapped in bandages so that only his eyes and nostrils showed through — and bathed slowly back to health by his daughters who poured olive oil over him all the time , how he took his daughter Cecilia ( Cis ) to eisteddfods because he loved to hear her sing but how she pleaded with him ‘ not to stop anywhere and not to leave her in the hall ’ . |
| 7 | In his final years he tried to revive his career in an American television series about martial arts called The Master ( 1986 ) but it failed and another series never got beyond the pilot stage . |
| 8 | The proposed million dollar match due in March between Monica Seles and Jimmy Connors , apparently never got beyond the talking stage . |
| 9 | Hawksmoor had been working for Wren since he was 18 and Castle Howard was very probably modelled on Wren 's proposed plan for Hampton Court ( which never got beyond the drawing board ) . |
| 10 | Although an adjoining area of ground had been purchased for this purpose , it was never developed as a burial ground and its virgin state allowed the Ekarro Housing Co-operative to complement the conversion of All Saints and St Barnabas with a new building , in the style of the surrounding villas , accommodating further flats for co-operative members ( Plate 26 ) . |
| 11 | Unlike Sting , Dylan and Bowie , Waits has never looked like a rock star overreaching himself . |
| 12 | Gloucester have never won at the Recreation Ground … the league champions look invincible … but that 's when the Kingsholm men are at their best … when nobody gives them a hope … |
| 13 | Many bookcases and sets of shelves displayed in furniture shops were never designed by a book man or anyone well acquainted with books , especially where sizes are concerned . |
| 14 | ‘ But I ca n't agree with the prophets of doom who say we will never qualify for the World Cup finals again . |
| 15 | He 'd never hankered after the travelling life . |
| 16 | In 1828 von Baer showed that the human embryo never passes through a stage equivalent to an adult fish or reptile . |
| 17 | No attempt had been made to secure the tape and its existence was never revealed to the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 18 | In any case , you 're almost never bailed for a rape charge . |
| 19 | As foil conducts electricity , it 's important that this paper is never hung behind a light switch or power socket , or anywhere where it could come in contact with electricity . |
| 20 | The autumn statement contains something that I have never seen in an autumn statement before — a chart designed to show not figures showing what might happen in the economy but estimates of consumer confidence based on Gallup poll evidence . |
| 21 | CDP participation in the 1970s discussions of this relationship , and notably of moves towards ‘ partnership in validation ’ , will feature in the next chapter , but it is important to note that the CDP , with an established office and secretariat , and the authority of the first in the field , was never matched by the Standing Conference of Principals and Directors of Colleges and Institutes in Higher Education . |
| 22 | This in effect meant the delivery of only a handful of other lectures : circumstances ensured that no teacher at the College could expect to become knowledgeable on the diseases of farm animals , which practically never came into the College infirmary for attention . |
| 23 | He never attended worship , he never came to the Youth Hall . |
| 24 | For reasons best known to the fuel companies , the Gulf crisis never turned into an oil crisis , although petrol prices generally leap up and down quicker than a Tory backbencher during a Neil Kinnock speech if a dealer on the Amsterdam spot market so much as sneezes over his computer screen . |
| 25 | One folly was so outlandish it never got past the planning stage — others are still fooling people to this day … |
| 26 | It was a trick I 'd learned never to do without a crash helmet . |
| 27 | Never rely on the wall switch . |
| 28 | Viable counts of sulphate reducing bacteria were never found above the detection limit of 10 2 /g faeces in non-responders ( Table III ) . |
| 29 | Yeah , I , I can never , I can never take in the rain check . |
| 30 | ME ( coldly ) : I have never served in a flower shop if that is your suggestion — My father owns a chain … . |