Example sentences of "never [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Speechwriters never make it to secret agent , ’ he observed , perhaps wistfully , |
| 2 | What mathematical model should be used to determine the safe level for bean-eating humans , who would never eat anything near 5000 ppm at one sitting ? |
| 3 | ‘ No , I never met anyone with that name , I 'm very sure of that . |
| 4 | Paul Himmelstein , the AIC 's president , says his organisation can only respond to complaints , and never received one in this case . |
| 5 | GMB union official Mary Kenny said today ‘ Management have been talking about measures like pay cuts but we never expected anything like this . |
| 6 | I never asked her for total commitment ( after all , if I were into monogamy would I have done such a good job of dangling that little Limnititzker tsatskeleh in front of her nose ? ) , but I would have hoped the woman would stand by me in a crisis . |
| 7 | I 've never heard anything of that type actually . |
| 8 | I 'd never heard anything like that before . |
| 9 | I 've never heard anything like this before in any court in the land . ’ |
| 10 | Further , the judges in relation to their judicial duties as to who should have the rights of audience have never divested themselves of those duties , nor could they ever do so . |
| 11 | She took up the piano and , according to her headmistress Ruth Rudge , ‘ made phenomenal progress for someone who started late ’ ; and although she never made it into any of the school teams , she loved tennis . |
| 12 | It 's one thing that we 're always really conscious of , that it must never affect us like that because no matter how big you become you must always be the same person . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Except that you 'd never expose yourself like that . ’ |
| 14 | Oh I never cook them for twenty , twenty to twenty five minutes it would be a disaster . |
| 15 | You never forget something like that , ’ says Steven , a 23-year-old supervisor at Heathrow Airport . |
| 16 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 17 | Worse still , he/she perhaps never articulates them at all unless he/she expects to have to spell them out . |
| 18 | Indeed , having been brought up after the war and having heard of the plight of those poor people , one has never forgotten it in any case . |
| 19 | ‘ Especially as once we start , we can never confine ourselves to just kissing , ’ Luke quipped with harsh humour , and paused . |
| 20 | At least two of the staff never used it in this way ( considering it more suitable as a library book ) . |
| 21 | I could never , never , never forgive myself for that . |
| 22 | And he never forgive me for this you see because he were a big noise you know , he he 'd got a big business in . |
| 23 | I never caught one in those days of the sixties and seventies myself , though pound to nearly a pound and a half fish graced my net often enough . |
| 24 | Into the uneasy silence , while brother looked most earnestly at brother , and wondered , and sought or evaded the eyes of his neighbours , Brother Cadfael said : ‘ Brother Abbot , I have thoughts to share that never visited me until this morning , but are become very relevant now . |
| 25 | The programme never described him as such , though he certainly wields the authority you would expect that title would give him . |
| 26 | I may never know it in this world but I shall be told it in the next . |
| 27 | In view of the remarks about the hypersensitivity of a man ‘ who could be extremely shy and nervous in the company of other people ’ ( to quote Ackroyd 's paraphrase of his own words to Djuna Barnes in 1951 ) , I should like to record that , save in respect of sensitivity , I never found him like that . |
| 28 | I never found anybody with any trouble ever having any trouble with it . |
| 29 | It has often been said that Tony played a guitar with the crucifixes upside down , for a more sinister and satanic embellishment , but John Diggins is adamant that he never built one like that and he 's pretty certain that no such thing exists . |
| 30 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |