Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman for Sovereign , who already had 40,000 orders for the album , said : ‘ It would be a real shame if fans of Lisa never get to hear these recordings . ’ |
| 2 | After several months of trials with human gonadotrophin and conceptions which were made in vitro — the mother of course never met the donor of the sperm which fertilized her ovum — a conception was selected and detailed predictions made — ’ |
| 3 | He would of course never dream of playing these tapes on the music centre at home , risking the derision of his children . |
| 4 | Den suffered terribly from stage fright and had some real moments of crisis which of course never showed from the front . |
| 5 | Others , who of course never used a bank , would pawn a five pound note for a few shillings , with instructions ‘ do n't break the note ’ so they could redeem it still in one piece . |
| 6 | Curiously enough , the same MPs who opposed the building of barracks never objected to the press-gang nor to the occasional use of conscription to keep the army up to strength . |
| 7 | Many mothers of sons never see them to talk to on their own from the day they marry , because their daughters-in-law always expect to be present on every conceivable occasion , and this is something that can build up a very understandable resentment . |
| 8 | One of my mental pictures of Mum never varies . |
| 9 | This forming and re-forming of pictures never loses its serenity . |
| 10 | The Japanese people had to look honestly at " past facts " concerning atrocities committed by imperial troops , he told the silent Diet , and the teaching of history should nurture " a sense of admonition never to repeat these misdeeds " . |
| 11 | If there is a distinction between a failure to consent and a refusal of consent , it is because a refusal can take the form of a declaration of intention never to consent in the future or never to consent in some future circumstances . |
| 12 | Despite all the new experiences she was going through , the thought of Rossmayne never left her . |
| 13 | He succumbed finally to the two-pronged attack of the papacy and the anti-imperialists , but a number of districts of Ancona never came under Innocent . |
| 14 | A bit of lightweight never hurt anybody , I tell him . |
| 15 | And I thought it really had been a very good life , a fun life , despite Ellen never having gone to bed with me , and I wondered if my father would even notice my death , then the Maggot whooped with glee , hauled back on the stick , and our plane was screaming up into the wide blue lovely bullet-free sky and the Maggot was laughing and slapping my shoulder . |
| 16 | courses are also such that a substantial number of candidates never make the grade . |
| 17 | ‘ Sir John , your grasp of philosophy never ceases to amaze me . ’ |
| 18 | The ‘ official ’ religious position of England never encompassed all English men and women , once Henry VIII had shattered the unity of the church . |
| 19 | I mean would n't you be absolutely pig sick of them by the first of December never mind christmas . |
| 20 | The obvious attraction is job security , since the world of intelligence never suffers from lay-offs . |
| 21 | The law as to this is best stated in the words of the judgment in Foster v. Mackinnon ( 1869 ) L.R. 4 C.P. 704 , 711 where it is said that a signature obtained by fraud ‘ is invalid not merely on the ground of fraud , where fraud exists , but on the ground that the mind of the signer did not accompany the signature ; in other words , that he never intended to sign , and therefore in contemplation of law never did sign , the contract to which his name is appended . ’ |
| 22 | In the uplands , where access is almost universally by car or coach trip , virtually all surveys point out that well over half of visitors never leave either their cars or the car park and that there is a marked and almost complete segregation of the active walker from the passive pursuits of picnicking and scenic viewing ( Haffey , 1979 ) . |
| 23 | The whole of a small fortune might have gone down the drain , dribbled , you might say , through my inexperienced hands , but she never said a single word and the idea of failure never crossed my mind . |
| 24 | Only 4% of organisations never keep paper copies of electronic documents and over 20% always keep copies . ’ |
| 25 | His activity on all three areas of primacy never faltered : we shall consider each of them in turn . |
| 26 | Henry reluctantly agreed not to act on the papal permission , but John of Salisbury never forgave Arnulf for placing royal interest ahead of papal prerogatives . |
| 27 | Whereas to an Argentine , it 's a matter of pride never to have a horse or dog that 's anything less than perfect . |
| 28 | Cable needs supplementary machinery in his model to help explain why half-lines with two or more adjacent , rising degrees of stress never occur in " classical " OE verse ; the need for such supplements may indicate that his base theory is insufficiently constrained . |
| 29 | The Backup and Restore utilities supplied with previous versions of MS-DOS never won Microsoft any bouquets . |
| 30 | ‘ You 've got to realise that the state of Palestine never existed , ’ he said . |