Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had left the squalid little office that afternoon never to return . |
| 2 | But now it 's like that part never happened , we 're just one big happy family . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Matthew Chieke was one of those charged with the bank raid , but that case never came to court . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's just as well , because he wo n't , that kind never do … ’ |
| 6 | But somehow that future never arrives . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As there are no payments of principal the burden of this liability never diminishes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Had this differentiation never taken place the result would be something inconceivably horrible , an amorphous mass of cells with no identity at all . |
| 13 | This capability never excludes either a sign or a speech coding and with increasing attention results are pointing to a great division in the effects , with deaf people showing greater use of sign-based coding when responses are made in sign . |
| 14 | This skill never left him . |
| 15 | This is not to suggest that those outside this range never work , but rather that in advanced countries gainful employment is considered to be mainly the responsibility of those in this particular age band of 50 years . |
| 16 | But in another way some stubbornness was at work in me , some determination never to give up , and to cling in secret to whatever reality I could find for myself . |
| 17 | but success in this sport never comes easy |
| 18 | Nothing need surprise me somebody went said this bloke never advertise at all its all word of mouth , |
| 19 | The port never recovered from this blow and about 10 per cent of the trade lost to Gdynia during this crisis never returned . |
| 20 | And , although this goodness never found its way into his conversation , it showed itself in his way of life . |
| 21 | Some tree good , some tree bad , some tree never mind . |
| 22 | aporias — because they seem to be at once the results of a communal enterprise while at the same time bearing witness to the fact that this enterprise never existed except as the inhuman reverse side of two opposed actions in which each aims to destroy the other . |
| 23 | Well I do n't know , but she , I said , cos she 's telling me about her coming , only three days up the hospital then she 's got ta go back to her own place because Ian said she 'd never managed , she keeps falling and she said this woman never went to see her once when she was in hospital , yet she 's getting paid it look all the time , and she ought to go to see if there 's anything she wants you see |
| 24 | It was planned to be an important branch , conveying iron ore from the strata at Apley and Donington , but this traffic never materialised owing to the vast amount of iron ore deposits found at Santon , near Scunthorpe . |
| 25 | NOT unexpectedly , with both sides in various stages of reconstruction , this game never managed to acquire any sort of pattern or fluency . |
| 26 | Most of the metals bought and sold in this manner never find their way to their purchasers . |
| 27 | The emotional warmth of this novel never exceeds the space allotted to it in a strongly active story but it does benefit by one physical fact of great importance to any sea-story — the constriction in terms of space on a ship , intensified in time of war , the effect of protocol and strict discipline and a lack of privacy on normal human feelings . |
| 28 | ‘ The scum of this life never give me a problem , ’ Berger said . |
| 29 | WPC Ackland is hot on his trail — but for some reason never manages to catch him in the act . |
| 30 | ‘ This conversation never took place . ’ |