Example sentences of "never [verb] any [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stop by here regular , I never met any British people yet . |
| 2 | Though lost or not , as you 've never received any official sanction there must be a strong case to be made for claiming that you 're trading illegally . ’ |
| 3 | Never pick any wild flowers . |
| 4 | During my whole flight career , and that was long enough , I never experienced any hostile actions from the RAF . |
| 5 | I never experienced any direct insults . |
| 6 | He had no great store of political influence , and he never made any effective use of the platform of the House of Lords . |
| 7 | I never made any real friends at school . |
| 8 | And er I went six times and it never made any bloody difference . |
| 9 | Menstruation was not mentioned then , or at any other time , so it is hardly surprising , if rather bizarre , that I never made any conscious connection between it and normal sexual functioning . |
| 10 | The media often presented Jones ' results as supporting those of the two chemists whereas in due course , if not already , his work will be seen as the first refutation of the some of their claims ; his neutrons were orders of magnitude below theirs and he never made any direct measurements of heat . |
| 11 | We were never given any long period free from a fight from the coast to a target and hack … |
| 12 | Fate had parted them for ever , but she would never know any other man in the way she had known Tyler . |
| 13 | I never found any hula girls . |
| 14 | A few weeks later I noticed that the anemone crab had disappeared and as more time went by , my fish stock began to decrease , although I never found any dead fish in the tank . |
| 15 | She had never been brought face to face with her great-uncle , and never devoted any conscious thought to him . |
| 16 | ( The mirza , moreover , ‘ should never trust any well-clothed person who pretends to be an author … ’ ) |
| 17 | Sidacai had never carried any excess weight , and the period of his imprisonment had stripped the flesh from his bones . |
| 18 | Mr Powell was never to regain any sizeable base among Conservative MPs but Mr Tebbit , after leaving the Cabinet , has proved again and again that when combining with Mr Michael Heseltine or other factions within the party he can rally a significant number of MPs . |
| 19 | He never played any more tricks on me but in other ways he progressed into more serious misdemeanours . |
| 20 | They never hold any open hearings . |
| 21 | So absorbed was Massalia in her effort to remain Greek — and aristocratic — that , to all appearances , she never organized any exploration of the interior of Gaul , and never transmitted any precise knowledge of Celtic institutions and customs to the other Greeks . |
| 22 | She has never seen any living animal or bird at all . |
| 23 | Perhaps ; but I 've never seen any particular virtue in consistency , and it certainly made for variety . |
| 24 | She apparently told her , contrary to the impression given in the former interview covered by Document B , that she never condoned her daughter 's going away — which she referred to rather dramatically as a ‘ kidnap ’ — that she did everything she could to bring the matter to the authorities at the time , but ‘ was prevented ’ , that she had certainly never agreed to her daughter living with her brother , that her daughter 's health had suffered alarmingly , and that she never told any social worker that she had agreed . |
| 25 | I I I just hear it when never freed any more hostages . |
| 26 | The Wolfies have been around for almost ten years but have never made any major dents on the charts . |
| 27 | Not only has Burlison never made any verbal contribution to the committee 's workings , there has to date ( and I 've attended the whole of every meeting ) never been a vote in the Plant Committee . |
| 28 | But Mark Shafer , who worked with Phillips until September last year , says that ‘ the Mac [ McDonnell ] lab reports never made any conclusive claims ’ about the psychics . |
| 29 | A decision which has never had any legal effect can not be deprived of legal effect , and so when we say that certiorari quashes a decision which the decision-maker had no jurisdiction to make , what we really mean is that the order formally declares that from the moment it was purportedly made ( ‘ ab initio ’ ) the decision had no effect in law . |
| 30 | I am convinced she had never lived in a house before , and had never had any real relationship with people . |