Example sentences of "never [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The point is that even if the bar never shuts in the house it is just as important to keep control of your drinking , ’ said the agency 's Director of Programme Development , Linda Barclay . |
| 2 | ‘ I never passed through the guard , ’ said Harry perforce . |
| 3 | He had never joined in the masturbation rites at school , either . |
| 4 | I never met with the fellow of her in my life . |
| 5 | While Mogul published a notice in the local paper seeking the retention of the lake , ‘ the application for retention was never received from the company , and the County Council did not pursue the matter . |
| 6 | Er we never expected from the Department of Transport and any minute book . |
| 7 | We 've never jumped on the bandwagon 'cos it 's clearly going to end in tears , but there 's definitely been a vibe that has n't been around since the days of the Buzzcocks and The Electric Circus . |
| 8 | He had experimented in administering the powder to about fifty people over a period of five years ‘ and never failed in the cure ’ , except in some cases of severe or chronic ague , which required the addition of some grains of quinine . |
| 9 | In the course of a debate on a Bill to remove the marriage bar , introduced in 1927 , MPs expressed feelings of revulsion at the ‘ travesty of nature ’ presented by the image of a working mother and in the last instance a father at home looking after the baby , but the same degree of indignation was never aroused by the work of married women of a lower social class . |
| 10 | But modern boxing has a more sensitive audience , one that never goes to the arena but watches at home on the television . |
| 11 | my Dad does the shopping on his way home from work on a Friday , so my Mum never goes to the supermarket , |
| 12 | ‘ God it was awful , ’ he said , and made them laugh and accept what he said , and Barnett never asked for the certificate this time . |
| 13 | Pay attention to the level of lighting and never sit in the shadow . |
| 14 | A survey for the Welsh Consumers ' Council shows that 40pc of shoppers had never heard of the Government 's citizens ' charter despite publicity costing £350,000 . |
| 15 | Harry had never heard of the man , but his status and circumstances sounded disturbingly similar to his own . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've never heard of the firm and simply ca n't imagine what this is all about , ’ Harry said . |
| 17 | No I 've never heard of the mill being on anywhere different from where |
| 18 | He obviously had never heard of the Order of Merit or I am quite sure he would have mentioned it at that time . |
| 19 | Of the remaining seven , three were imprisoned before they could contact the Council , two were afraid that they might be recognised walking into the Council 's offices , one had a ‘ habit so big ’ that he thought it would be a waste of time , and one had never heard of the service . |
| 20 | In the first place , by far the greater number of them have been made by people who have never heard of the doctrine that emotions and judgements are caused by bodily states … |
| 21 | She had never heard of the film . |
| 22 | I then rang the Family Health Authority er myself , and they 'd never heard of the person and had no trace of of the name I gave them . |
| 23 | They did n't have them at the bookshop I went to , they 'd never heard of the magazine , and a friend of mine who writes poetry said he was certain it did n't exist . ’ |
| 24 | Dorothy 's Journals provide a record of the tour , which involved the use of a vehicle described as ‘ an Irish jaunting car ’ ; they made a pilgrimage to the grave of Burns and visited Sir Walter Scott , whose Lay of the Last Minstrel was to introduce the new metre of Christabel to a public who had never heard of the source . |
| 25 | Trent had never heard of the President being a drinker , secret or otherwise , and it was the sort of habit that could n't stay hidden in a country of Belpan 's size . |
| 26 | Over 30% in this study had never heard of the ATB . |
| 27 | A number of respondents had either never heard of the ATB or had found out about it by accident . |
| 28 | ‘ I had never heard of the area when I met a teacher from there in 1973 but we became friends and I started to visit . |
| 29 | I 've never heard of the make before ( Melos ) , but it 's a nice machine and I 'll be sorry when the tape wears out . |
| 30 | Luckily for her , she had a clever lawyer at her trial , and was never punished for the murder . |