Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] never [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But , despite his popularity and wealth of talent , Moss never won coveted World Drivers ' Championship and is , undoubtedly , the greatest driver never to have won the title . |
| 2 | He had left the squalid little office that afternoon never to return . |
| 3 | But now it 's like that part never happened , we 're just one big happy family . |
| 4 | Of course exactly that case never occurs , or if it does it occurs in such a way that it is not recognized as being a repeat run of the previous bitter experience . |
| 5 | Matthew Chieke was one of those charged with the bank raid , but that case never came to court . |
| 6 | I guess the folks at Armed Response never sleep . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's just as well , because he wo n't , that kind never do … ’ |
| 8 | It will include private pictures never seen before — some of them shown exclusively here — sound tapes never previously heard in public and shots taken from 30 hours of film footage from Elvis 's home movies , showing him in intimate off-duty moments . |
| 9 | In the meantime , some suspects were interrogated , but the Croatian side never got hold of the whole file before the war broke out in the summer of 1991 . |
| 10 | But somehow that future never arrives . |
| 11 | We now know that whichever direction we look , this noise never varies by more than one part in ten thousand — so Penzias and Wilson had unwittingly stumbled across a remarkably accurate confirmation of Friedmann 's first assumption . |
| 12 | However , this can take a very long time to accomplish — some flyers never manage it — and will bring you closer and closer to the next stage to be conquered — the nose-in hover . |
| 13 | Proper potterers never travel anywhere without a botanising field guide in their rucksacks . |
| 14 | As there are no payments of principal the burden of this liability never diminishes . |
| 15 | Mercifully , ideas of this kind never met with much support , and finally , in 1932 , the controlling body of world astronomy , the International Astronomical Union , lost patience . |
| 16 | Now the MP whose constituency covers Castlemorton is demanding that the Government take steps to ensure that an invasion of this kind never happens again . |
| 17 | This is all very much to the good but my inner voice keeps muttering ‘ That 's not it at all ’ — because studies of this kind never attempt to cross the boundary-line between behaviour and inner experience , and thus tend to side-track the issue I am raising here . |
| 18 | Hens can be both fearful and aggressive when meeting strange birds , and as a result some birds never leave the house while others become victims of cannibalism . |
| 19 | Mystical experience never arrives out of the blue ; it is always influenced by the religious milieu of the mystic , even though he may want to transcend the beliefs and attitudes that he found there . |
| 20 | He wrote of a fusing point at which the mixture becomes homogeneous , like an alloy , but thought that ‘ some intransigents never fuse — jews , Scots ’ . |
| 21 | No one is quite sure whether Baxter 's stories are fact or fiction but like that other legendary wordsmith , the former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly , Slim Jim never let reality get in the way of a good yarn . |
| 22 | Along with taking LSD and deciding after some very unpleasant attempts never to fuck again , attending Skegness was one of the most powerful and formative experiences of that part of my life . |
| 23 | It 's not uncommon for victims of rape to be so traumatized by the attack that they delay , or in some cases never report the matter to police . |
| 24 | The top riders never appear to be hurrying — in fact Mark Todd often appears to be quite casual as he clocks up the fastest time of the day . |
| 25 | Had this differentiation never taken place the result would be something inconceivably horrible , an amorphous mass of cells with no identity at all . |
| 26 | More than three thousand worked in woodland throughout the country to ensure British industry never ran out of timber . |
| 27 | Old Shallot never gives a rat 's arse . |
| 28 | Although education is compulsory from age seven to 14 in theory , almost half the children in public schools never get beyond the first year and only one per cent continue to higher education . |
| 29 | Some designers never change their tune . |
| 30 | But in the motets proper Willaert never employs the device of cori spezzati , ‘ broken ’ ( i.e. antiphonal ) choirs , which he used in eight psalm-settings published in a collection of psalms by Jachet of Mantua , ‘ Maistre Jan ’ , and others in 1550 . |