Example sentences of "never [verb] [pron] [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4 Never make your students feel stupid or ignorant ; if you want to make a joke at a student 's expense , that 's all right as long as he does n't mind his leg being pulled . |
| 2 | Despite this , they never made their pressure tell . |
| 3 | She had learned it the hard way and she never let her guard slip at all . |
| 4 | But the Prince and Princess of Wales never let their public face slip and even on the day of the announcement were carrying on with planned engagements . |
| 5 | Her book will make feminists scream ‘ tacky ’ and explode but even Yvonne , who supplies Page 3 models , draws the line occasionally : ‘ I never let my girls serve drinks topless at stag parties , jump out of pies nude , participate in lesbian orgy film sequences or model fur — animals skins for fur coats — now that really is obscene . ’ |
| 6 | I never let my daughter do anything to her hair . |
| 7 | Never let your child stand in the gap between the front seats , or anywhere else in the car . |
| 8 | You never let your mind wander in your life . |
| 9 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |
| 10 | The medals were never on display in Headington and Kevin never heard his father tell the story of his award . |
| 11 | And yet in the intensity of their feeling , mixed with memories of early youth , there is a beauty — and the author has spared them sordidness , one feels , by never letting their love run its full course . |
| 12 | The Profitboss never lets his criticism become negative . |
| 13 | As it was he was still asleep upstairs and never saw his dad bury him … and I could bawl unseen to my heart 's content . |
| 14 | It matters not that these natives were the people who had the original rights , and Thomson 's own humanity would never let his reader forget that fact ; all he lamented , as he always did , was the passing of an old way , especially when the future replacing it felt less sound . |
| 15 | It is abundantly clear that this God will never let his people go . |
| 16 | And he would never let our Emma carry it . |
| 17 | You 've promised you will never let my foot slip . |