Example sentences of "never [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Someone should teach them how to be gracious , how to accept compliments prettily , how never to wear a grey suit to a party however bored one is with designing clothes . ’ |
| 2 | So the women got Anna to open her door and the prince was pushed forward and asked her pardon and promised never to see the French girl again and they had a great drama and Anna consented to be reconciled . |
| 3 | ‘ I never 'ad a French lady lodger before — mind , it 's four shillings a week , being a nice large front room with a comfortin' bed and an 'andsome fireplace . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Never make a late cut until September and then only on alternate Tuesdays . ’ |
| 5 | Never make a rash move in conflicting traffic situations because you 'll find yourself Er they might gesticulate at you , they might blow their horn at you , they might say some very rude words that you 've never heard before . |
| 6 | In the neo-elitist view it is important to study not just how the issues which become major political conflicts are resolved , but also which issues never make the political agenda at all or are prevented from reaching any decision when they do emerge as issues . |
| 7 | Fortunately most pet cats , if they do encounter a toad , quickly learn that it tastes bad and , after one preliminary nip , rapidly drop the squirming amphibian and never make the same mistake again . |
| 8 | This reluctance could be seen as part of the general strict interpretation of exclusion clauses , but in a line of cases it was suggested that there was a rule of law that an exclusion clause could never cover a fundamental breach . |
| 9 | Whether the integral is over time or over frequency its empirical form can never cover an infinite range . |
| 10 | The biography suggests that Eliot was never to lose the divided sense of his youth that human life is futile and meaningless — that man is ‘ a finite piece of reasonable misery ’ , in the words of William Drummond of Hawthornden , a good poet who was also a great plagiarist , and a great seeker of shelter in books — but that an eternal order might be felt for , or invented . |
| 11 | The Left never formed a unified whole . |
| 12 | During the novel Lady Bertrmm and Sir Thomas never display a great deal of affection towards one another . |
| 13 | Whenever Robinson struck for a grip he moved quickly and broke it , never allowing the older man to settle . |
| 14 | When d' you meet any real people apart from those limousine sharks and cordless telephone freaks who never met an ordinary person , do n't know any ordinary people : how they live , we live , nor how we die , I mean how they die . ’ |
| 15 | " I know you 're a faggot and everything but I 'll tell you what the problem is : you just never met the right guy . |
| 16 | I never met the right woman . |
| 17 | He never met the young air force crew , never even saw them , yet he has never forgotten them either . |
| 18 | For example , I have never received a personal letter following my stay to thank me for my custom . |
| 19 | They ( or most of them ) had never received a formal education , so at times they landed in trouble . |
| 20 | Would they never answer the bloody thing ? |
| 21 | West European governments never expected the Final Act to work an instant revolution in international affairs and it was always understood that many questions lay beyond its scope . |
| 22 | ‘ I never expected the first scrap to be so easy , ’ Callaghan said . |
| 23 | In October 1978 , Sid Vicious — whom Malcolm McLaren had described as ‘ never seeing a green light ; it was always on red ’ — woke up in his room in the Chelsea Hotel , New York , to find the body of his girlfriend , Nancy Spungen , sprawled on the bathroom floor , dead from multiple knife wounds . |
| 24 | From his commentary on Aristotle 's Physic , it is clear that Aquinas could never regard the Greek philosopher as an authority on matters of faith . |
| 25 | Some MOX fuel has been made — the lack of an economic rationale has never stopped the nuclear industry trying things — but as yet it has used up only 12.5 tonnes of plutonium . |
| 26 | ‘ The team has never stopped the hard work and the new Celica has improved over the year . |
| 27 | Before this year , Ayodhya , a community of 30,000 Hindus and 2,000 Muslims , had never witnessed a religious clash . |
| 28 | The Wall itself never became a complete line of defences . |
| 29 | His boyhood feats set the pace for a long and successful career as an international grandmaster , but , though he scored some spectacular defeats , Reshevsky never became a close challenger for the world championship . |
| 30 | As an operating system the canals never became a large-scale employer like the railway companies , whose " servants " as well as engineers and trackmen on the " permanent way " included the new " uniformed working class " . |