Example sentences of "never [vb pp] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some MOX fuel has been made — the lack of an economic rationale has never stopped the nuclear industry trying things — but as yet it has used up only 12.5 tonnes of plutonium . |
| 2 | ‘ The team has never stopped the hard work and the new Celica has improved over the year . |
| 3 | She had never heard the whole story , but apparently some of his ideas were considered a little too daring for the traditionalists in Tokyo , and he found the rug pulled from under him . |
| 4 | I 've never heard the enormous crocodile . |
| 5 | ‘ You 're saying you 've never given the poor girl a scrap of encouragement ? ’ she mocked scornfully . |
| 6 | The sad thing is that most of us have never considered the humble potato as a precious gift from nature — so how about a run down of its amazing , exotic origins on the back of crisp packets ? |
| 7 | She 'd never caught the French trick of eating slowly , relishing the food . |
| 8 | There had been no horror particular to Toulouse to explain that extraordinary fear ; the battle had been less threatening than a half-dozen of the Spanish engagements , yet Sharpe had never forgotten the awful fear , nor his relief when peace had been declared . |
| 9 | He had never forgotten the outraged eloquence of the frustrated lady as she had hitched up her pants and departed towards the town . |
| 10 | Living conditions in the countryside had never approached the Arcadian well-being implied in romantic notions of sturdy peasants following the plough . |
| 11 | But McDonald has never enjoyed the same profile this side of the Atlantic . |
| 12 | He said Riley had never reported the alleged incident , intending ‘ to sort it out himself ’ . |
| 13 | Because you 've never met the right woman … she wanted to say . |
| 14 | Paul Smith has never attended the British fashion awards . |
| 15 | Had never felt the exquisite excitement that she felt at this moment . |
| 16 | ‘ The problem about us , ’ said Helen , ‘ is that we 've never felt the same way about money as most other people seem to . ’ |
| 17 | Admittedly , it is an album by an enthusiast for mid-'70s Rolling Stones records and will offer nothing to people who have never felt the sexual tug of an overly-loud Chuck Berry riff , but for anyone else , it is top rock and to be cherished . |
| 18 | I 've never seen the fabulous city of New York and I 've never finished reading The Rise of The Dutch Republic . ’ |
| 19 | For the Archdeacon , who had , in fact , never seen the Venetian Lido , had been reared in the Close at Salisbury and , making some allowance for scale , had known from childhood exactly what a church should look like . |
| 20 | But I 'd never seen the real thing . |
| 21 | I thought I would never seen the next day . |
| 22 | I signed the papers in Manchester and after that I never seen the social worker again . |
| 23 | I would like to think that the glamour and the inevitable aspects of artificiality in my job have never made the slightest impact on the way I live . |
| 24 | Class as nearby townspeople who have never had the dubious benefit of Melric 's magic . |
| 25 | Any examination of the history of ‘ history , will demonstrate that it has never had the immediate certainty that is implied in the all too frequent invocation of , concrete history ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've never had the smallest doubt that you hated me . ’ |
| 27 | Where the wife takes the conveyance and requires it to be conveyed to herself and the new husband , she should convey as " trustee " ( thus implying that she herself has not encumbered the property ) as she has never had the legal title vested in her absolutely . |
| 28 | Gina had never had the slightest bit of interest in his writing . |
| 29 | And he claims he has never had the slightest desire to leave her . |
| 30 | ON WEDNESDAY , Christies ' two star lots are Canaletto 's view of the Old Horse Guards , wonderfully fresh and the most significant of the artist 's London paintings , while Rembrandt 's jewel-like Daniel and Cyrus before the Idol of Bel has never had the slightest sniff from the Rembrandt Research Project , which has whittled 1,000 ‘ Rembrandt 's ’ down to 300 and whittles on remorselessly . |