Example sentences of "[be] never [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ai n't never get anything else for , when I go on holiday , but I said I do n't even think we 're never going on holiday , mind you , |
| 2 | Brando was furious and said , ‘ I 'm never going to work with Mankiewicz again . ’ |
| 3 | The is partly due to the length of time such illumination takes — there Books of Hours were never conceived as ephemera — and partly because calligraphers today are not seeking to satisfy 15th century tastes . |
| 4 | Since he could not get married ( marriages were never solemnized during Lent ) Richard decided to delay no longer , Philip having sailed already . |
| 5 | One person pointed out that , if it was not an accident , there were serious political overtones and the convention had been long established that political matters were never raised at presbytery meetings . |
| 6 | It was rumoured that banknotes were never withdrawn from circulation but simply frayed away . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , as far as is known , no written parchments have survived from the Minoan civilization , and it may be that the finest Minoan thoughts were never committed to writing . |
| 8 | Sri Lanka , who had lost their previous two Tests against Australia by an innings , were never put under pressure . |
| 9 | Looking back , it seems a marvel that the houses surrounding the Greencroft were never set on fire — the residents must have suffered very anxious hours , but for the rest of us the sight of so many fires all blazing away was one never forgotten . |
| 10 | In this lofty style his enemies were never mentioned by name , only as the sinister and impersonal ‘ they ’ , bent on destruction of Church and State . |
| 11 | The six smaller cars survived the War , but were never used in passenger service again — at least , not in their original form . |
| 12 | The format worked well because the interviewees were never told in advance what they were going to be asked . |
| 13 | ‘ The Midlands tried back moves that were never going to work against international opposition . ’ |
| 14 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |
| 15 | Individual deterrence occurs when someone commits a crime , is punished for it , and finds the punishment so unpleasant or frightening that the offence is never repeated for fear of more of the same or worse . |
| 16 | The oak trees had not yet lost the vivid yellow-green of their late springtime , a colour so bright , so fresh and so unparalleled elsewhere in nature or in art that no one has ever been able to emulate it and it is never seen in paint or cloth or women 's dresses . |
| 17 | The Sunday Liturgy is never celebrated without music and large parts of it are sung by the celebrant , the deacon and the people . |
| 18 | This is never going to work , Charles was thinking , so what is the point of worrying about it ? |
| 19 | ‘ My knee is never going to work the way it should , Seb , but the muscles of my leg are working much better , have you noticed ? |
| 20 | ‘ And unless you 're going to allow it to be your husband — to let him be boss , in fact — your relationship is never going to work . |
| 21 | Just as we hare up one terminal-strewn alley we are diverted by quicksilver turns to another , a snappy script is never slave to technology and the piece is universally well acted . |
| 22 | But if the pain is rooted in our past and is never brought into consciousness , we will need stronger and stronger doses of the tranquillizer . |
| 23 | Quality in photographs costs money but it is an outlay that is never wasted for casting directors and producers do look at volumes of Spotlight repeatedly . |
| 24 | True sociology is never divorced from theory , yet it never builds its theory without facts , and the hypothesis , I contend , is the crucial link between the two . |
| 25 | In later accounts Seth is replaced by Horus or Thoth , although Thoth is never envisaged as part of the family of Osiris . |
| 26 | He says he 's never travelled by car . |
| 27 | Lee Benfield says he 's never skied on snow before but he 's enjoying this and is looking forward to having a go on the real thing |
| 28 | Well the thing is Dianne and and Charles , they have n't known it , it 's never worked from day one |
| 29 | Their voices are never raised in greeting — the whole week I ca n't remember a shout bar the occasional ‘ hola ’ . |
| 30 | Exposure to direct sunlight is generally to be avoided since products are seldom exposed to it , and because it can quickly produce effects that are never seen in practice . |