Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] never [adv] " in BNC.

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1 In the sixth edition §248 Hahnemann describes the daily succussion of the LM solutions as : ‘ altering and slightly increasing the degree of potency ’ suggesting a gradual almost exponential curve of increasing potency which never actually reaches the next degree until a further dilution step in taken .
2 The key is to start with something simple ; 95 per cent of the decisions you make are unconscious — for example , when you drive a car you never really think about putting it into first or second gear .
3 So make sure it 's safe , take your casualty from the cause , you may have to resuscitate , now if a person swallows something by mouth , there 's two types of poisons , one can go by mouth and one is er corrosive and the other is non-corrosive , but at the same time you have a liquid or tablets , now if it 's a corrosive liquid that you have swallowed or somebody has swallowed , it 's burning as it 's going down , and may I say in first aid you never ever on any circumstances make anybody sick er especially poisons , can you imagine if it 's burnt going down it 's probably perforated the food pipe and somebody comes along and overdoses on the water , because you can give sips of water for corrosive , well it 's because you 're trying to keep the airway open , if it 's burning , corrosive is burning you 'll get swelling , so this is why you give sips of water , but if you give too much your casualty will be sick and if it 's burnt going down and perforated the tubes and they 're bringing it up again it 's gon na burn coming up and go into those perforations that and cause further damage .
4 McCallen had problems with the carburration and as a result he never really got into the final practice but unofficially he lapped at over 119 mph only three seconds behind the overall leader Carl Fogarty .
5 But it is an astonishing fact , a revelation both of his independent power of creating an ordered system and of his limitations of vision , that in this work he never once referred to the work of his predecessor .
6 What a pity he never even seemed to notice she was there !
7 So could be Neil Mallender , now deservedly the Test bowler he never really thought he 'd be .
8 There were those who said that , rather than Miss Mack 's solicitor , he was the Fiancé Who Never Quite Made It Because Of Some Unexplained Difficulty — but this was pure speculation .
9 Everybody just wants to do what they should be doing whereas with my job it never even thought about it did we ?
10 Cheaper to us , erm the trouble with it is of course we never actually add it in .
11 On a dry but extremely windy day I never once felt cold as I sat on top of Red Screes for half an hour munching through my packed lunch .
12 All this other pile of stuff I never even looked at .
13 The constantly-dripping nose for which no explanation can be found is another example , the catarrh which never quite clears up , the cold that comes out of the blue when life is difficult for us .
14 Well , apart from the promise of an epic accompanying video , with Jim Bob in the role of Don Quixote and Fruitbat as Sancho Panza , you also get one OK and two great tracks on the B-side. then there 's the fact that ‘ The Impossible Dream ’ is the Carter anthem they never actually wrote — an optimistic two-fingered ‘ we 'll show you ’ to the rest of the world ; so cute but so ill-mannered .
15 ‘ Someone in his financial position could easily have got a doctor 's certificate to pull him out of tournaments but to his credit he never even considered it . ’
16 The water he never actually hit .
17 He had torn the little gold cross from around her neck , during love , with such force she was left with a welt which never ever seemed to vanish .
18 As Julian & co limber up for the long haul , you get the feeling they never really hated rock as the survivors of post-punk seemed to .
19 You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place .
20 I asked him , he was negative , erm and I 've I 've got a feeling he never even turned up for it anyway .
21 It cleverly created its Polo brand to exploit Americans ' nostalgia for an English country life which never really existed except in Hollywood movies , and has been careful to use the brand only for top-of-the-range products .
22 Despite his financial wealth and his high profile public image as one of Scotland 's most successful businessmen , Souness is a loner with lots of mates , the man who never quite fits in .
23 She stars as tap teacher Mavis Turner , a chorus line dancer who never quite made it , in a screen version of the hit Richard Harris play among the motley crew of would be tap dancers at a church hall evening class .
24 Listening to this I on the whole thought that in a real sense he never really quite answered them , on the other hand he made every single person look silly .
25 For the next four months the Prime Minister 's horse still has to be kept in Quarantine in Moscow and in London , Then finally John Majors will get the birthday present he never really wanted in the first place .
26 At last she said slowly , ‘ Well , having done nothing but small-animal work for two years in London , I have to say that apart perhaps from the odd pony I never really considered anything else .
27 Tolkien was a Catholic who never entirely ceased to resent Lewis 's preference for Anglicanism ; others were High Church ; and Lewis , who always claimed to see religion as an escape from superstition rather than from atheism , held himself scrupulously above such disputes .
28 In a hospital you never really see the face of anybody in a uniform , just the uniform .
29 But the idea of closer political ties with England had first been mooted as far back as the late fifteenth century , by James III ; and even though it was then an extremely unpopular policy , it was an idea which never again quite went away .
30 He mentioned his back problem you never really got to find out exactly what it was , he sort of glossed over it , he said oh I 'm alright now .
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