Example sentences of "[conj] [vb -s] never [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of those dreary days when it is as dark at noon as it is at dusk and the onset of the official darkness is as the rolling down of a blind on a day that has never properly existed . |
| 2 | And just when they seem engaged in revolutionizing themselves and things , in creating something that has never yet existed , precisely in such periods of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service and borrow from them names and little cries in order to present the new scene of world history in this time-honoured disguise and this borrowed language . ’ |
| 3 | He needs more than one victory to win confidence in a town that has never much loved him ; and he can not afford even one more tiny slip if he is not to convince Washington that Mr Perot 's cruel judgment of his talents was right . |
| 4 | ‘ It would fill up Wembley , sell it out — a major heavyweight fight between two Britons , something that has never really happened before . ’ |
| 5 | For some enterprising footballers like Celtic 's Harry Hood or Aberdeen 's Willie Miller , the pub is a business opportunity run to the highest standards , but for others it can be either a modest earner , an extension of their drinking or a desperate attempt to grab a livelihood from the cinders of football , an industry that has never fully protected the talent it exploits . |
| 6 | Turkey is a market that has never quite fulfilled its potential — according to Nelson 's Paul Berry , ‘ Turkey has been regarded as the next Greece for more than 10 years ’ . |
| 7 | He 's been sitting on the bench for the last hour and has never once taken his eyes off the shop . |
| 8 | The Yorkshire-born jockey broke his duck at Yarmouth in 1967 and has never once doubted his ability to compete with the best . |
| 9 | As the fish died it changed colours like a rainbow , and he left his body and has never really returned to it . |
| 10 | The real value of the licence fee has grown at a relatively slow pace and has never quite caught up with the rate of inflation . |
| 11 | Instead of facing the music at Wembley on September 9 , Taylor 's team will play for expenses only on a Spanish Second Division ground that holds only 25,000 spectators and has never before staged a full international match . |
| 12 | Etherington-Smith has known this extraordinarily talented designer , renowned as ‘ the only German to conquer Paris without weapons ’ , for many years , but has never before profiled him in depth ( see page 200 ) . |
| 13 | If it succeeds , it could turn the personal computer business upside down , by delivering what the PC always promised but has never quite achieved : the ability to work where and how you please , no matter what computer you are using or how limited your knowledge . |
| 14 | It has to be controlled , but Yves never actually said that violence was part of our game , or that he condoned violence ’ , said Simon . |