Example sentences of "[verb] never [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any other time I would probably telephone my agent and discuss this point for twenty minutes or so , for it is the kind of marginal detail which intrigues me and has never appeared to bore him . |
| 2 | Mrs Whitehouse herself has never sought to deny the intellectual and theological debt she owes to the Oxford Group and the MRA , but has been quick to silence those critics who have suggested the existence of more formal links between the NVALA and MRA . |
| 3 | Jewellery was and is Ratner 's game and he has never sought to diversify . |
| 4 | ‘ The direct cause of the Clapham Junction accident was undoubtedly the wiring errors made by Mr Hemingway , ’ the report says , adding : ‘ He has never sought to evade his reponsibility for the appalling consequences of his errors … not one word of excuse came from Mr Hemingway . ’ |
| 5 | If government wanted such powers , it could obtain them only through Parliament ( Parliament itself has never sought to exercise executive powers ) and the granting of them could take place only after deliberation and approval by the triumvirate of monarch , Lords , and Commons . |
| 6 | The PWL disco machine of Stock Aitken Waterman has never stopped reviving disco ; Madonna 's ‘ Vogue ’ and her ‘ You Can Dance ’ remix album were clear tributes to disco culture ; the Pet Shop Boys ' ‘ Disco ’ album was released in 1986 ; Deee-Lite 's ‘ Groove Is In The Heart ’ was disco , as were Army Of Lovers , the Pasadenas , Marshall Jefferson 's productions for Ten City , the early S'Express tracks , the Night Writers ' ‘ Let The Music ( Use You ) ’ and even Yello 's ‘ The Race ’ , which stole its horn arrangement from Gino Soccio 's ‘ Dancer ’ . |
| 7 | It has never stopped rising since . |
| 8 | Mr Carter 's closer relationship with Mr Bush has got his smile back into the newspapers , but Mr Carter has never stopped believing he can help solve the world 's problems . |
| 9 | But Joyce has never stopped believing that peace will come to the grim back streets of Belfast . |
| 10 | Anthony Phillips may have quit Genesis twenty-two years ago , but he has never stopped exploring the musical landscape that was once uniquely their own . |
| 11 | No sooner was he in the sport than he was already scheming to make his first million ; he has never stopped scheming since , to make many more than the first . |
| 12 | The business includes beef , sheep and a farmshop , but the dairy has never stopped growing from its small beginnings and the Rowlands are about to open a factory unit nearby . |
| 13 | To a degree unknown in any other use of language he finds himself not only attending to what is said but simultaneously hearing the words as textures of vowels and consonants , noting rhythm , rhyme , assonance ; meanings refuse to be tied down , disclose nuances and associations of which he has never been conscious ; sights and sounds which he has never heeded become sensuously precise and vivid in imagination ; emotion assumes a peculiar lucidity , undisguised by what he habitually feels or has been taught that he ought to feel ; truths about life and death , which he follows social convention in systematically evading , stand out as simple and unchallengeable . |
| 14 | As you rightly say , the present border was drawn on a sectarian head count in such a way as to include a large area which has never consented to partition . |
| 15 | ‘ She has never gone missing before so this is unusual . ’ |
| 16 | The group has never tried to mislead anyone or appear contrary . |
| 17 | In my opinion , she is relishing the martyr role , and is n't in the least embarrassed that we all know she has never tried to kill herself or do many of the things Morton has her doing . |
| 18 | Anyone who has never tried chiselling out a channel in a wall to accommodate electrical conduit or other piping will appreciate this useful accessory from Wolfcraft . |
| 19 | ‘ The Ministry of the Interior , which has overall responsibility for German museums , has never tried to tell us what to do ; the only restrictions on our activities have been financial ’ . |
| 20 | But Major has never managed to translate his popularity into votes , and even his personal lead over Kinnock has evaporated in the course of the campaign . |
| 21 | The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 has never managed to shake off its jinx-jet image . |
| 22 | As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures . |
| 23 | Ion deposition has never laid claim to be a quality method but for high volume work it 's the way to go as it is a virtually indestructible technology . |
| 24 | Despite his ability for solving puzzles , he has never attempted to compile a crossword . |
| 25 | I replied : " The Republic has never ceased to exist … |
| 26 | He deserts her in Italy some years later , and she finds her way back to London where she is reunited with her uncle , who has never ceased to search for her . |
| 27 | He has never ceased to use his career at the Met as a touchstone for such later projects as editor-in-chief of Connoisseur Magazine and several ‘ inside scoop ’ books on the art world ranging from Tutankhamen : The Untold Story to his early years as a curator of the Met 's medieval department and his purchase of the ‘ Bury St Edmunds Cross ’ ( King of the Confessors ) . |
| 28 | She bade me tell you that she loves you very dearly , and has never ceased to miss you . ’ |
| 29 | Over the years we have been thankful to hear the BBC World Service in Chungking , Kuala Lumpur , Los Angeles , Guyana , Nigeria , Alaska and many other places — and that clear , calm statement of the news spoken with suave detachment in impeccable English has never ceased to satisfy . |
| 30 | Our teachers have always been encouraged to develop their own personal style of teaching , whichever area they wish to work in , but this has never meant compromising the ideals and basics to which we all adhere . |