Example sentences of "never [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never expected to start a game , ’ he said . |
| 2 | Grace never failed to send a letter on the first of every month , and somehow managed to sound cheerful despite being surrounded by death . |
| 3 | However , he never ceased to admire a poem like ‘ The Widow 's Lament in Springtime ’ : |
| 4 | We hope that you will never need to make a claim ! |
| 5 | Pickles never has to lift a finger . |
| 6 | ‘ Now , as Irish manager , he never has to discuss a contract , never has to sign a player . |
| 7 | ‘ Now , as Irish manager , he never has to discuss a contract , never has to sign a player . |
| 8 | It has also been our our position of this County Council Chairman that we will never seek to impose a solution on St Albans , we felt that it 's our duty to highlight the problems we to give them our expertise er as part of the leading part of our Authorities Committee in this country . |
| 9 | Cosby said : ‘ I 've never enjoyed doing a show more than this one . ’ |
| 10 | Many retailers today rely simply on jacket design and advertising budgets and never bother to read a text at all . |
| 11 | I never want to see a bicycle again , even in a picture . ’ |
| 12 | You never want to make a man the centre of your existence . |
| 13 | He never looks to have a rest and at the end of the day when we 've come in , he 's still out there practising . ’ |
| 14 | A Steam Tank never needs to take a break test . |
| 15 | She felt he was looking at her professionally now : a woman who had only had two cups of coffee for breakfast , who had not gone shopping or taken herself out to lunch as she had planned , who , in the old days , never seemed to waste a minute , who never laid down in the middle of the day and yet was now stretched out on the bed , inert , apathetic , openly admitting that she had n't realised the time . |
| 16 | He kept no pin-up on his locker , he was never seen writing a letter of any sort , let alone a love-missive . |
| 17 | Probably if it had n't have been for Sister Helen and I would have never have been able to b catch the at all because I never came to see a doctor . |
| 18 | I 've never had to arrange a funeral before . ’ |
| 19 | Potter says this approach has been satisfactory , although he would not say how many times the company had used it , but Psion has never had to take a case to court . |
| 20 | Having never had to face a situation of wholesale redundancies in the past , ICI 's policies for dealing with them were out of date and inadequate . |
| 21 | I 'M A BIT NERVOUS , I 'VE NEVER HAD TO MAKE A WITHDRAWAL FROM THE SPERM BANK BEFORE |
| 22 | ‘ Now there are people around who are saying , ‘ I wish I had never bothered taking a picture of Kylie Minogue ’ , ’ he added ruefully . |
| 23 | In Japan both Sony and Matsushita have worked on similar equalisation , but never bothered to market a system . |
| 24 | Just never seems to be , we never seem to have a lot of time . |
| 25 | And you just never you never you never play football you never enjoy having a game and things like that so . |
| 26 | ( I would point out at this stage that I would never begin to treat a patient with physical symptoms of this sort unless he or she had first consulted their doctor and was able to tell me that no physical cause for the problem could be found . ) |
| 27 | Try selling nappies and dogfood to someone who lives alone and never intends to have a baby or a dog . |
| 28 | His mouth was even more super when he laughed , she decided , and quickly turned her head to face the front — she could never remember noticing a man 's mouth so much before . |
| 29 | We 're going to get a bit of John back but I 'm never going to have a husband again . |
| 30 | ‘ I am never going to write a song as good as Blowing In The Wind , ’ he says . |