Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Heart experts never tire of pointing out that Winston Churchill started life as a frail premature baby , went on to smoke , drink heavily and eat to the point of obesity , but lived to a great age , whereas Nathan Pritikin , inventor of the Pritikin diet , died a premature death despite being obsessed with health . |
| 2 | Today , cynics would say that a building contract never has the chance of being put away as disputes start from the moment it comes into operation . |
| 3 | Taylor had persuaded Barratt to take up his present position in 1818 — it was a decision Taylor never regretted . |
| 4 | differently through se sheer speed and but er I can see Gabiadini I mean Ian Wright never flicks like some of the flicks that he does . |
| 5 | The bike gangs never come here . |
| 6 | A man who can not base his decisions on precedent and logic has no business being on the bench ( a premise that Justice Brennan never forgot ) . |
| 7 | Indeed , the creative and performing arts never seem to have become entirely integrated into the system — they do not quite fit standard CNAA validation procedures for example — and this is perhaps no bad thing . |
| 8 | The vendor will be unwilling to allow the purchaser to manage the business in case completion never takes place . |
| 9 | In our experience , those students who work to a study time-table never fail to attain the standard expected by the examiners — it is not a very demanding one . |
| 10 | Leaving a dozen men under Ollokot to besiege Gibbon , Joseph led his people south at noon , hauling the wounded on travois and noting sadly : ‘ The Nez Perce never make war on women and children ; we could have killed a great many women and children while the war lasted , but we would feel ashamed to do so cowardly an act . ’ |
| 11 | The eldest Miss Fricker never forgot the arrival of the travel-weary student whose brilliant reputation had gone so powerfully before him . |
| 12 | Although in both books Hilton never loses sight of the spirituality possible for actives each book is addressed to a different audience : Scale 1 to an enclosed and apparently illiterate anchoress " redyng of holy writt may < wel vse " ( 15.288a. – 88 ) ; while Scale 2 seems more generally addressed to a wider and not necessarily wholly contemplative audience . |
| 13 | The Three- Ninetieth had a reputation on the record that enemy fighters never forced you to turn back and that 's some special form of courage . |
| 14 | But to my disappointment Edward never turned up for me . |
| 15 | Bomber Command never overcame the problem of the weather , right to the bitter end , and right to the end the Germans fought back . |
| 16 | ‘ So why has Madge Grimsilk never offered to run me up a quick ball-dress on the wardrobe sewing machine ? ’ |
| 17 | The rains failed for two years in succession and the fodder crops planted in the demonstration ranch never materialized . |
| 18 | He has , in the past , also designed operas for La Scala , and costumes for Buñuel 's Le Charme Discret de la Bourgeoisie ( Stéphane Audran never looked better ) and for Losey 's Boom ! with Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 19 | Alas , Townshend 's monster Hiwatt never made it onto the House Of Love album . |
| 20 | The movie flopped and Laughton never got the chance to direct again , but Hunter remains the greatest David Lynch movie Lynch never made . |
| 21 | Miss Willard never vacuumed it , pleading that her heart could n't stand the strain of lugging the cleaner from step to step , and her father never appeared to notice the drabness or dirtiness of his house . |
| 22 | The girl who had been selected for me by Miss Sowerby never turned up . |
| 23 | Rab said , ‘ Sticks and stones kin break yer bones but words kin never hurt ye . ’ |
| 24 | As set down here , his writing is repetitive and wide-open to disagreement , but it has virtues ( purpose , passion , and seriousness ) which most rock writers never touch . |
| 25 | ‘ Neil Kinnock never came in and look what happened to him . ’ |
| 26 | The Labour leader has to do that after the Budget — an art Neil Kinnock never mastered — but it falls to the Shadow Chancellor to reply to the Autumn Statement . |
| 27 | The one fundamental difference between program files and data files is that data files never contain instructions for the CPU . |
| 28 | But Donna Frizzell never failed to remind her of his dragging progress through school , compared to Betty and Joanne 's smart performances . |
| 29 | Spurs ’ defender Neil Ruddock never played with Gazza but has lined up against him and he said : ‘ I 've only played against him once and I could n't get near him . |
| 30 | SO David Mellor never learned to swim . |