Example sentences of "never [verb] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This policeman was having to give evidence and he 'd come to talk , oh I see you 've had the baby , cos he was talking to me it had happened I said , oh what did you have blah blah blah , blah blah blah , but the little devil went in the witness box , he denied about not being there on duty about putting his mac on , ooh and he 'd never clapped eyes on barrister or a solicitor and they said he 'll meet you before the case , so we had to go extra early meet this barrister and he never came and so they took us in this little room in all his wig and his gown , we got , oh what happened ? |
| 2 | Never sell tickets for Box 5 ; that is my box for every opera night . |
| 3 | ‘ I never expected travelling on foot to be so arduous , ’ she said . |
| 4 | At this factory an immense research and development programme is headed by electronics wizard Bob Podhrasky , and in recent years more than $3 million has been pumped into the never ending pursuit of treasure hunting 's Holy Grail … the ‘ perfect ’ machine . |
| 5 | They would cry with the pain of numbed fingers as they worked on the never ending piles of ore . |
| 6 | ‘ I never touch liquor on duty . |
| 7 | Never send cash by post . |
| 8 | You would anyhow not expect on this occasion any words of wisdom from me , indeed my wife and four daughters would doubtless tell you that you should never expect words of wisdom from me . |
| 9 | Never mix work with pleasure is always a good policy in work and personal relationships . |
| 10 | Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man , yet murder men everywhere they find them , at the corner of every one of their own streets , in all corners of the globe . |
| 11 | Can you imagine that these people have never listened to canned music or swigged a ‘ Coke ’ , never twiddled with radio frequencies , never seen Dallas on TV , never answered the phone , and never played Space Invaders ? |
| 12 | He waited until Berthon — with whom Rudd had never seen eye to eye — took a holiday and grafted a new front end on to Jean Behra 's car . |
| 13 | The two have never seen eye to eye apparently and although some papers called him a hothead , Horton insists he was n't going to have a go at the ref , who was given a police escort back to the dressing rooms . |
| 14 | He had a clean , bare style ; when writing he seemed to be able to slip the burden of his personality as he could never do face to face . |
| 15 | ‘ But we have never made door to door collections , so we know this man has nothing to do with us , ’ she said . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've never had breakfast in bed before , ’ he told her . |
| 17 | Castlerock 's 1,500 residents , the majority of them Protestants , have never had time for sectarianism and division . |
| 18 | well that 's what I wan na know , that 's right , that 's all I wan na know , never give way to traffic on the , on the right , you could pull out on it , if indicating |
| 19 | Never wear dentures at night . |
| 20 | Ted and I will never see eye to eye about his clients , whom he likes , respects and positively enjoys dragging over hills to bag stags , whereas I loathe these numbskulls who think killing is ‘ sport ’ . |
| 21 | My wife and I could never see eye to eye on the business of living . |
| 22 | Relationships were just too difficult , the sexes would never see eye to eye , it was all too much bother . |
| 23 | I remembered his words : " We never celebrated Christmas at home . " |
| 24 | I never visit Alice without standing and reading that plaque . |
| 25 | He would never set foot in Liberty 's , let alone Harrods — those haunts of the rich and the would-be rich represented for him the scornful laughter of the haves towards the have-nots . |
| 26 | I spent most of the day mooching around Winnipeg , seeing a couple of owners once in a shop selling Eskimo sculptures , but never coming face to face with anyone who might know me . |
| 27 | He never lost touch with chess though , and on resuming active competition in 1931 he won the Western Open , before taking first prize against Capablanca , the great Cuban player , at a tournament at Margate . |
| 28 | Such a well placed and well managed woodland would bring ‘ never failing fountains of delight ’ to the inhabitants . |
| 29 | It was his policy never to keep staff below executive level too long — it eliminated the danger of their learning too much . |
| 30 | ‘ I make it a rule never to mix business with pleasure . |