Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The vendor will be unwilling to allow the purchaser to manage the business in case completion never takes place . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Bomber Command never overcame the problem of the weather , right to the bitter end , and right to the end the Germans fought back . |
| 5 | The rains failed for two years in succession and the fodder crops planted in the demonstration ranch never materialized . |
| 6 | In these months twilight never comes before half past eight or nine o'clock . |
| 7 | City Diary : A VIP journey never to forget |
| 8 | There was an ironical twist to all this , for the United States government never concealed its hearty dislike of Napoleon III and his regime . |
| 9 | With the stigma of a life-ban hanging over him , his club form never realised its early potential and he now works as a storeman on an off-shore oil rig . |
| 10 | Her bedroom wallpaper never failed to give her pleasure . |
| 11 | As a result BSL never committed large amounts of money , although it was under pressure to do so . |
| 12 | Whereas the West Mainland never goes really up at the end of the sentence or at least not to the same extent . |
| 13 | But with the apparently ageless Walter Kidd running around with John Robertson safely tucked away in his back pocket , the home side never looked like conceding a goal . |
| 14 | When West Indies batted , Haynes edged the first ball of the innings for four , and the home side never looked back . |
| 15 | City came under some pressure from Tring , but the home side never looked down to a sub front . |
| 16 | Total investment in the NFC in the years since privatization has totalled almost £700 million , whereas in state ownership investment never exceeded £25 million a year . |
| 17 | The view from its window across Thrush Green never ceased to enchant Ruth Bassett . |
| 18 | This second group never gets the chance of continuing care because there are too many admissions and too few long stay beds or suitable community residential places . |
| 19 | Meanwhile my sister and that fool Pumblechook never stopped discussing Miss Havisham and her considerable wealth . |
| 20 | Valley Parade 's answer to the dream team never linked up during their playing days — Pearson had moved on from Manchester United to West Ham before Stapleton , Ireland 's most capped player , joined the Old Trafford side in the early eighties . |
| 21 | Winter or summer , ice cream never failed . |
| 22 | Even during the recession years of the early 1980s , the rate of net outward migration from Greater London to the rest of the South East never fell below 40 000 a year and with the subsequent economic recovery it had risen to 65 000 by 1986–87 ( Champion and Congdon , 1988 ) . |
| 23 | By the time Tiare was ten , her mother made the girl promise never to marry until she was at least nineteen , telling her that hasty love affairs never led to happiness . |
| 24 | I 'm not sure , a boxer never returns , a tennis player never comes back , Bjorn Borg did n't . |
| 25 | At Mrs Parvis 's the metal meat-safe hanging from its nail outside the basement room never contained meat , only sausages and suet , with bluebottles buzzing round . |
| 26 | With me , however , Pop was soft and over-indulgent and the evening ritual never varied . |
| 27 | Both international links have so far come to nothing — the SFE link having been effectively abandoned for the time being , and the CBoT accord never having been implemented . |
| 28 | Mr Healey — the best leader Labour never had , and a man of such substance as the party no longer possesses — was regarding , from under shaggy eyebrows , the large and rollicking volume of his autobiography , just published , which lay on the table between us in his hotel suite . |
| 29 | Only seven-year-old vegetarian Alero Provo never did . |
| 30 | The Maternity phone never stops . |