Example sentences of "never [verb] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Needless to say , we never passed a hat shop . |
| 2 | ( Ironically , but also significantly , one is from a school which has never received a project grant and the other from a school which received a retrospective Minor grant some time before the deputy head herself took up her post . ) |
| 3 | She ran for her life , never seeing the figure detach itself from the wall , as she did in that far off childhood nightmare . |
| 4 | He was a man whose personal life , though occasionally exigent , never became a siren song . |
| 5 | Straw plaiting was a widespread cottage industry in and around the Chiltern Hills , but it has left scarcely a sign on the landscape , for it never became a factory industry . |
| 6 | But Europe never became an election issue . |
| 7 | I mean I 've never heard a reggae record like this , nor any other record , come to that , imagine the sort of slow , two-note bassline of De La Soul 's ‘ What 's More ’ taken back to its R&B roots , with copping guitar , honking sax and leering swagger in the rhythm . |
| 8 | You 've never heard the term summer walker ? |
| 9 | When I say that Dolores had never heard the term gig before joining the band I am not taking the piss or ridiculing her . |
| 10 | ‘ I know it 's silly , but I 've never outgrown a childhood tendency to travel sickness . |
| 11 | The Doctor said , ‘ There 's a saying on my planet , which roughly translates as ‘ never trust a Time Lord ’ . ’ |
| 12 | Give them the drawing number so we sent a transmittal note , course we never got a transmittal note back . |
| 13 | She never got a phone call about that job |
| 14 | No we never got the fire engine out we just er we just when we got |
| 15 | Now in those days you never got an album deal from a record company unless you had a hit single , but I made up my mind that the sort of stuff he had would make a very good album , so I went to Decca with that view in mind , trying to get an album deal , and did get a deal for him . |
| 16 | Even if you have never given a bottle feed yourself it is possible that the baby received one from a nurse while in the maternity ward . |
| 17 | You 'll never make a poker player , Miss Swift ! ’ |
| 18 | But he insists regret should never make a footballer compromise on toughness . |
| 19 | He flexed his hands under the cloth , and shouted irritably at Rosa , ‘ You 'll never make a city woman , thank God , ’ and then , seeing her face fall , wondered at it . |
| 20 | ‘ I would not like to have the task of telling her that she would never make a crime reporter ! ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If men never considered the exchange rate in precisely those terms , ’ the man wrote , ‘ then the Caprice and the Ivy would have given up on the supper trade decades ago . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Never has an art form been subject to such control , ’ argued Pare Lorentz in 1930 as he pointed out how the whole industry was ‘ ruled by fear ’ and was ‘ the victim of moral racketeering ’ . |
| 23 | It is sometimes hard for cats to understand people and , like elephants , they never forget a shock encounter . |
| 24 | Election Comment : Never forget the damage Labour did Ambrose Evans-Pritchard recalls the chaos of the 1970s that led him to leave the country |
| 25 | If you do take a wheelchair out with you , never forget the support cushion for the seat , and make sure the footplates are always in place . |
| 26 | ‘ But I never mentioned the word cancer . |
| 27 | A MAN who complained of 17 years of hounding by the television licensing authority although he had never owned a TV set won a remarkable legal battle and £5,500 expenses yesterday . |
| 28 | Former Test fast bowlers Sir Richard Hadlee and Michael Holding have been made honorary life members of MCC , as have the club 's former secretary Jack Bailey , Laurance Hancock ( secretary of Staffordshire for 53 years until 1987 ) and Glamorgan stalwart Don Shepherd , who took 2174 wickets for the Welsh county but never won a Test cap . |
| 29 | Although karate developed in Japan , that country has never won a team world championship , whereas Great Britain has won it on no less than four occasions — a record unmatched in the history of karate . |
| 30 | His jockey , Peter Scudamore , has ridden more winners than any rider in history , but has never won the Gold Cup . |