Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 — ’ |
| 2 | He would of course never dream of playing these tapes on the music centre at home , risking the derision of his children . |
| 3 | Den suffered terribly from stage fright and had some real moments of crisis which of course never showed from the front . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One of my mental pictures of Mum never varies . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A bit of lightweight never hurt anybody , I tell him . |
| 9 | ‘ Sir John , your grasp of philosophy never ceases to amaze me . ’ |
| 10 | The obvious attraction is job security , since the world of intelligence never suffers from lay-offs . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His activity on all three areas of primacy never faltered : we shall consider each of them in turn . |
| 14 | Whereas to an Argentine , it 's a matter of pride never to have a horse or dog that 's anything less than perfect . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The Backup and Restore utilities supplied with previous versions of MS-DOS never won Microsoft any bouquets . |
| 17 | Postwoman Val took Pat home , where her husband made him a Jamaican meal and Pat then went off to boogie to a steel band , like a rasta on ganja , exhibiting a sense of abandon never hinted at in Greendale . |
| 18 | The Siporax is only half submerged , so that a head of water never covers the biological media . |
| 19 | Thirdly , the irradiation target is specific in that exposure of the adjacent portal ( the upper mediastinum ) with the same dose of x rays and volume of tissue never causes an ulcer . |
| 20 | But a speck of dirt never hurt anybody , as far as I 've learnt . |
| 21 | This means that the pattern of variation never repeats itself . |
| 22 | Coleen listened to his amorous overtures of love never doubting his sincerity , but she still wanted to be sure and she tried to gently tell him so ; she had to be sure before she said ‘ yes ’ . |
| 23 | And always , always , however she killed , the moment of agonising red pleasure that was awareness of non-existence , the I stilled , the beautiful blissful moment when she did not exist and they did not exist and They did not exist and the whole dusty lightless World was not — only the certainty of not-existing never lasted and soon she would have to kill again . |
| 24 | When C f is fortis ( ‘ voiceless ’ ) and C i lenis ( ‘ voiced ’ ) , a context in which in many languages C f would become voiced , assimilation of voice never takes place ; consider the following example : ‘ I like that black dog ’ . |
| 25 | Here , too , though we are not looking to carve up the territory between us a degree of competition never does any harm we should at least be getting together to think out how best to collaborate in the future . |
| 26 | Surprisingly , perceptions of bias never had a significant impact on usefulness-ratings . |
| 27 | He was one of those lucky children whose economy of effort never showed up in examination results which were invariably straight ‘ A's , and he was particularly good at dashing off a 1000-word essay while others were still biting their pen-ends . |
| 28 | This kind of training never has long lasting results , only very unhappy dogs . |
| 29 | Well that may it may be unfair and until recently that kind of situation never came before the courts . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , I 'm going to see that this sort of thing never happens again , ’ I said . |