Example sentences of "never [adv] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People have said , I 'm taking driving lessons , but I never ever want to drive a car again in my life , afterwards . |
| 2 | That I know we 're flogging a dead horse , but that half past ten , a phenomenal amount of time , it should never ever have taken a fraction of that if it had been done properly . |
| 3 | Erm , may I make a comment on neighbourhood watch , I went to er a job the other day , it was a theatre , I was off duty and er I got tapped on the shoulder by my local neighbourhood watch co-ordinator who said , nine months ago I resigned , I wrote a letter to headquarters , I wrote a letter to the divisional commander , and I wrote a letter to the local constable , and nobody 's replied to me and they still keep sending me papers are you gon na get your act together , now I I have brought this up before , we never ever have let a neighbourhood watch scheme lapse , it 's nothing to do with you , this is all before you came |
| 4 | She 'd never deliberately tried to grab a man 's attention before . |
| 5 | Now here we move in to a bit of Plato always be aware of those who argue by analogy by general law life and limb must be protected yet often a limb must be amputated to save a life can you guess what 's coming next ? but a life is never wisely given to save a limb . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've never really tried to have a proposition , ’ says Abbott . |
| 7 | To be quite honest man , I 've never really , never really did see a problem . |
| 8 | Not bad for a first international race and the Liphook company director never even had to change a wheel . |
| 9 | His aim was to provide a core of competent battle wizards so that the Empire would never again have to fight a battle without the aid of wizards . |
| 10 | As he later admitted in an interview with CA Magazine , ‘ I said to someone at the time , I never again want to conduct a debate lasting three years without once being able to raise my voice ’ . |
| 11 | Consequently , for almost a decade after that , Trevor was never actually seen driving a car in any film . |