Example sentences of "never [verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I played soccer all the way through school and never entertained the thought of rugby until a couple of friends took me down to Preston Grasshoppers . |
| 2 | ‘ Fem Sap has never recognized the sort of hierarchy which says that only published authors , or professors of literature , have something worth saying . |
| 3 | The US Congress has never uttered a word of criticism against the Israelis . |
| 4 | 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 . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As his biographer Suárez Fernández admits , " Franco never cultivated the art of paradox . " |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I knew I had landed my 100th winner , ’ Charlie told me ‘ but I never expected the sort of reaction I received from the crowd . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ My child has never heard the sound of laughter , ’ said the woman , ‘ and I do n't want him to die without hearing it . ’ |
| 12 | How I never got a dose of clap I 'll never know ! |
| 13 | Because he never got a lass into trouble — except once , and that was when he was just a lad . |
| 14 | It 's very difficult , you never lose the feeling of resistance to it . |
| 15 | I made a lot of mistakes as any young person does , but I never made the mistake of thinking I knew it all as far as the Africans were concerned . " |
| 16 | Rowland Jones , from Wimbledon Park Golf Club , was a promising golfer but never made the grade in comparison with the Great Triumvirate of Vardon , Braid and Taylor . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So far James has never given a scrap of trouble and has passed his MoT test with flying colours . |
| 19 | I ca n't help but think , chairman , in my career I was never given a bottle of whisky to help with the |
| 20 | The prospects are bright and assured : ‘ Never fear the want of business — a man who qualifies himself well for his calling never fails of employment ’ ( Thomas Jefferson ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He realized with a vicious clarity that he had never considered the possibility of discovery . |
| 23 | Never as in a time like the present — of radical social change in Italy as in other European countries , of the transition from an industrial to a service economy ( Italy 's second major economic revolution in 30 years ) , of the questioning of many social values , above all in the matter of social relations ( between the sexes , between friends , between producer and consumer ) , of profound uncertainty about the future , commingled with fear , anxiety and even expectation — never has the impotence of literature been so apparent , its inability to say the word which , in Montale 's phrase , ‘ squares us off on every side ’ ( Montale 1977 : 47 ) . |
| 24 | Never has the line between celebrity and ambassador been so blurred . |
| 25 | Never has the burden of choice been so heavy . |
| 26 | Labour has never won a majority in parliament against a press so tilted against it as now . |
| 27 | Mime has never enjoyed a place on centre stage , it lives in the shadows of fringe theatre and the Big Top . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | It 's at once surreal and introspective , bizarre and brave , but never loses the sense of suspicion which holds it together so chillingly . |