Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] never [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Small , budget-priced cars have never really featured in our driveway and when the Fiesta arrived , my wife , inquiring what it was like , was told : ‘ Red , you 'll enjoy it . ’ |
| 2 | The government plan to help private operators by robbing the Railworkers ' Pension Fund of millions of pounds to subsidize their operations for passenger and freight on a scale that B R have never ever known . |
| 3 | Such an inequality has been modified and refined in the decades since emancipation , but blacks have never quite shed the remnants of their shackles and have stayed socially unequal . |
| 4 | Our memory of our own sleep is usually confined to one or two confusing and ill-recalled dreams , and some individuals claim never even to dream . |
| 5 | Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that during the past 25 years successive Governments have never quite got it right on training , which is so essential to our future prosperity ? |
| 6 | The problem seems to be that the people who prepare the lunches have never actually opened one sitting on a hill . |
| 7 | Bush called for a rediscovery of " a " home truth " that the American people have never really forgotten : this government is too big and spends too much " . |
| 8 | Article 10(1) of the European Convention sets out the basic principle which the makers of common and statute law in Britain have never quite mustered the courage to adopt : " Everyone has the right to freedom of expression . |
| 9 | Arguments about merit have never really gone away , and many people have felt that the extra effort put in by the best students need to be recognised . |
| 10 | His children have never fully forgiven him and the scandal that surrounded the very public break-up of his first marriage has scarred everyone involved in The Doc 's love-life . |
| 11 | In the western democracies , those masses have never again suffered the dire oppression that they suffered in . |
| 12 | Foreign relations and international involvement have never wholly lost their sense of being essentially instrumental in nature . |
| 13 | The Smiths have never really conformed to the pop ideal , being larger than life but twice as monotonous , although some would disagree . |