Example sentences of "[vb mod] never [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should never increase a long run , tempo run , speed session or total weekly mileage by more than 10 per cent over the previous week . |
| 2 | Analytical reading of history texts should never permit a passive acceptance of other people 's interpretations of the past . |
| 3 | We must never have a simplistic view of suffering . |
| 4 | Fighting for justice should indeed be part of the Great Battle — God forbid that our fight has no social and political cutting edge — but it must never become a secular substitute for it . |
| 5 | He might never have a better chance . |
| 6 | The owner of large , complex estates , who did not manage them personally , might never have a clear idea of his full income . |
| 7 | fix the switch on I said you 'll never get a new one anyway . |
| 8 | You 'll have to marry sometime and you 'll never get a better offer than this . |
| 9 | I 'll tell you now we 'll never get a six month 's overlap |
| 10 | ‘ You 'll never get a smart job , ’ said Rachaela . |
| 11 | Now you 'll never get a true surface with a commutator stone . |
| 12 | And you 'll never read a bigger pile of shite ’ . |
| 13 | Want to sing with a high pitched voice , you 'll never have a better chance . |
| 14 | and prove our Thomas wrong , he says I 'll never have a decent car . |
| 15 | ‘ If that 's Will 's Dark Lady , he 'll never have a quiet , easy life ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ She 'll never have a fat arse , ’ said Belinda . |
| 17 | You 're sick with love for him , but he 'd never give a plain Jane like you a second 's thought . " |
| 18 | Oh yes , I 'd never get a professional job on that heavy cloth and all the so at some point that 'll . |
| 19 | ‘ You 'd never get a bald Ancient Briton , would you ? ’ she said . |
| 20 | She 'd never have a better opportunity . |
| 21 | This reluctance could be seen as part of the general strict interpretation of exclusion clauses , but in a line of cases it was suggested that there was a rule of law that an exclusion clause could never cover a fundamental breach . |
| 22 | As a more extreme example may be quoted the case of a south-easterly gale in the Straits of Dover : however long the gale blew the waves could never exceed a certain height determined by the distance across the Straits . |
| 23 | But he could never get a straight answer out of William , not nowadays . |
| 24 | I could never get a decent swing with my left hand , but at best I would use it only to repel boarders . |
| 25 | He c , he c he could n't , it do n't matter what he does , he could never win a bloody war . |
| 26 | ‘ That useless baggage would never make a good hostess — not in a thousand years . ’ |
| 27 | Dayglo orange , pink or lime green would never make a successful scheme , although having said that , everyone 's taste is different ! |
| 28 | After the war I vowed I would never wear a white tie again , and never have , I dislike it so much ; so , having been informed that most of those below the salt would be wearing black ties anyway , I put on my Kennedy tartan smoking jacket with green velvet facings which I had recently had made and of which I was sure that Sir Walter , who often wore a plaid , would have approved . |
| 29 | He was a known quantity whose devotion to the Soviet Union was unquestioned ; he would never countenance a multi-party system ; he , unlike Nagy , had no intention of withdrawing from the WTO . |
| 30 | Ponyboy feels he should become tough to fit in with his friends , but soon realises that by doing this he would never achieve a better life . |