Example sentences of "never [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sadly , most never make it past the sorting stage and instead wind up as fire-lighters at a nearby sugar plantation . |
| 2 | Sadly , most never make it past the sorting stage and instead wind up as fire-lighters at a nearby sugar plantation . |
| 3 | Thomas was two years younger than I and I never met him till the year I left St. Paul 's School ( 1894 ) . |
| 4 | You could never fool him with a note and he never let you get away with anything . ’ |
| 5 | It is clear , moreover , from facts which later became public , that her father King Malcolm had never intended her for a monastic vocation . |
| 6 | In all the years Francis and I were married I never asked him for a cent . |
| 7 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 8 | The Tigers have had a political wing since 1976 but never registered it as a legal party . |
| 9 | Back at the village post office he 'd sorted out the usual junk mail which never made it past the door of the shop and found that he was left with one real , honest-to-God letter . |
| 10 | Bunny and Martin wandered over with more drinks but Dod never made it past the darts game . |
| 11 | Sonny , of course , never made it for the final show . |
| 12 | I had intended to try and ring Jo as soon as I got in , to find out what the hell was going on , but I never made it for the house was in turmoil . |
| 13 | And in fact they never made it to the man 's house in the country that night , because Boy made him stop the car twice more . |
| 14 | In the middle layer is greenish gabbro , molten rock that never made it to the surface of the crust . |
| 15 | Then the album came out about six months later and there was no track — the track never made it to the album ! |
| 16 | If London did n't go as you 'd hoped — perhaps you never made it to the end — a float will help you put things into perspective and will leave you feeling more positive . |
| 17 | And he gave me a smacker on the forehead , said he 'd keep me up his sleeve if he never made it to the altar . |
| 18 | Kids who never made it to the gig are cruising aggressively around in a heady charged way . |
| 19 | Alas , Townshend 's monster Hiwatt never made it onto the House Of Love album . |
| 20 | Skill is one of the most important elements in the champion 's make-up , because if he ca n't perform the right technique at the right time and in the right way , he will never make it to the winner 's rostrum . |
| 21 | THERE was a fear that John Patten might never make it to the Cabinet . |
| 22 | Sounds as if IBM Corp has thrown in the towel and acknowledged that it will never make it with a word processor of its own : it has become a member of Wordperfect Corp 's Customer Advantage Programme , a fancy name for a company-wide licence for IBM to distribute and use Wordperfect products throughout the company with ‘ significant savings ’ and simplified licence administration . |
| 23 | They said a quality newspaper could never make it as a tabloid , and the struggle is now on |
| 24 | Spanning 50 years of his life , Sinatra begins with the frustrations of his early years in the 1920s and 30s , when he was told he had no talent and would never make it as a professional singer . |
| 25 | Sir Alec Guinness 's head refused to put him in the school play — thinking he would never make it as an actor . |
| 26 | ‘ You 'll never make it as an American , that 's for sure , ’ Cora-Beth said as she tucked her arm through Harry 's . |
| 27 | I 'll never make it through the three weeks in one piece ! ’ |
| 28 | I 'd never considered her as a wife . " |
| 29 | ‘ As the club have never expected me to have a coaching certificate , I 've never considered it worth the effort just to get a piece of paper . |
| 30 | The bottom room , with Its two huge grinding-wheels of burr-granite propped against the wall and its lingering smell of flour , still held an air of mystery , of time held in abeyance , of a place bereft of its purpose and meaning , so that he never entered it without a slight sense of desolation . |