Example sentences of "they [vb base] never [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They say never ask for whom the bell tolls , but when Steven Ivin heard one ring out after the second world war he knew it tolled for him . |
| 2 | To tell you the truth Brenda , I 'm very sorry for her because I think that she and Ned have made a really a quite ferocious mess of their life , they 've never intended to be slaving away to be doing kitchen fitting , he wanted to do wood sculpture that was he 's idea in |
| 3 | If they 've never advertised before which is unlikely if we 're going for high fli you know high flier |
| 4 | But while The Cure have often dabbled , they 've never delved in quite this deep . |
| 5 | But while The Cure have often dabbled , they 've never delved in quite this deep . |
| 6 | If you believe what they say , they 've never heard of a little girl going missing ! ’ |
| 7 | Verily , thou art mistaken — I contacted Microvalue , and they 've never heard of it . |
| 8 | They 've never heard of glass houses . |
| 9 | Present it to Walter Raleigh , Sitting Bull , Napoleon , Julius Caesar or even the man on the Athens omnibus circa 100 BC and explain to him that this is not the work of God or the Devil but a few clever chaps in a place and time they 've never heard of . |
| 10 | They 've never heard of him |
| 11 | I could do a couple of tapes worth of slang words that they 've never heard of before . |
| 12 | ‘ Old people bringing something out of the attic they 've never cared for , and then seeing it fetch thousands of pounds at auction . |
| 13 | In these hard and unforgiving times , some people have struggled as they 've never had to before . |
| 14 | ’ And they 've never come after you ? ’ she asked dubiously . |
| 15 | British TV viewers will not pay more for a cable system just because one day it will be able to provide interactive services which they have never heard of , let alone want . |
| 16 | There are no known photographs of Various — their LP sleeves often featuring really crap photographs of couples snogging — and they have never appeared on TV . |
| 17 | There are no known photographs of Various — their LP sleeves often featuring really crap photographs of couples snogging — and they have never appeared on TV . |
| 18 | We saw earlier that , following the Neolithic Revolution , child-rearing regimes assumed an importance which they have never lost in all human cultures based on agriculture and more advanced modes of economic life . |
| 19 | Nobody wants a florid letter from someone they have never seen before but as an actor your style and personality must come through sufficiently — a bare list of parts played wo n't convey much . |
| 20 | Sam thought for a second he could smell damp straw — ’ … and carried many miles to a place they have never seen before and from which they can never return . |
| 21 | This probably explains why little children favour tall animals , that they have never seen in reality , to animals that slither and scuffle across the ground . |
| 22 | The two ‘ old lags ’ , who have read all about sex , have the most daring conversations about an experience they have never known at first hand . |
| 23 | We half expected them to come back a few days later , but they have never returned to the barn we prepared so painstakingly for them , although they are still sometimes seen in the vicinity . |
| 24 | Sometimes parents can not answer the questions clearly because they have never thought of observing their child 's behaviour so closely . |
| 25 | So a lot of them have never played at Twickenham and that 's a big incentive for them together . |
| 26 | round to architects just sort of provoking the question cos they , a lot of them have never thought about it |
| 27 | Many of them have never acted before and came thick and fast to auditions with high hopes for a moment 's glory on ’ Inspector Morse . ’ |