Example sentences of "never [verb] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I played soccer all the way through school and never entertained the thought of rugby until a couple of friends took me down to Preston Grasshoppers . |
| 2 | ‘ Fem Sap has never recognized the sort of hierarchy which says that only published authors , or professors of literature , have something worth saying . |
| 3 | Gesner moved to mask her again , and once more she darted round the screen , suddenly making great play with the peacock tail , holding it up to hide the lower part of her face , managing to pretend never to see the front of Luxembourg 's face , and never to let him see her . |
| 4 | Events like redundancy , divorce , bereavement , family and work problems , debts , separation , illness , may be stressful for most of us , but why is it that some people can go through crisis after crisis and never suffer the effects of stress ? |
| 5 | Yet most people never suffer the consequences of aluminium poisoning . |
| 6 | In China we have an old proverb which says , ‘ Never judge the day by the morning ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Never judge the day by the morning ’ , Ling had said . |
| 8 | He knew , needless to say , that his analysis of the role of the economy in social life was revolutionary , but never realised the extent to which it was based on a radical philosophy . |
| 9 | As his biographer Suárez Fernández admits , " Franco never cultivated the art of paradox . " |
| 10 | Never sell the bones of your father and mother . ’ |
| 11 | After several months of trials with human gonadotrophin and conceptions which were made in vitro — the mother of course never met the donor of the sperm which fertilized her ovum — a conception was selected and detailed predictions made — ’ |
| 12 | But there are still many people shocked by the events of the past few days , who never expected the Army to be prepared to launch rocket and artillery attacks on civilian targets . |
| 13 | Yet they never expected the Duke of Edinburgh to accompany the Queen everywhere , or Mark Phillips to be seen with Princess Anne . |
| 14 | ‘ You never expected the news of your engagement to Mr Massingham to stay a secret for long , did you ? ’ |
| 15 | I never expected the job to be perfect but I was surprised by the nature of the problem . |
| 16 | ‘ I knew I had landed my 100th winner , ’ Charlie told me ‘ but I never expected the sort of reaction I received from the crowd . |
| 17 | Through her iron self-discipline , Laura had managed to control some of her phobias , such as fear of cows , small insects and mice , but she never obliterated the memory of how she had suffered in younger days . |
| 18 | It may also be true , as Clinton says , that he has never broken the laws of his country . |
| 19 | She claimed she had never realised the significance of the tape , which she played for the first time ‘ weeks later ’ . |
| 20 | Rodrigo marched into Valencia in triumph , only to learn that his old adversary Berenguer of Barcelona — who had never forgiven the Cid for capturing him in an earlier campaign — had formed an alliance with the Moorish lord of Lerida and El Cid 's own sometime ally Mostain of Saragossa . |
| 21 | I have never forgiven the Government for what they did to my constituency in those two years . |
| 22 | He has never forgiven the FA for that and being the kind of character he is I 'd be very surprised if he did . |
| 23 | Never concentrate the heat in one place for long . |
| 24 | This is analogous to the claim Gandhi makes in an address he gave to Christian missionaries , namely , that ‘ many men who have never heard the name of Jesus Christ or have even rejected the official interpretation of Christianity would probably , if Jesus came into our midst today … be owned by him more than many of us … ’ |
| 25 | And our own people here have never heard the word at all … |
| 26 | He feels his purpose in life is to spread the Christian religion in unexplored places where the people have never heard the word of God . |
| 27 | None of them could disagree that it was a species of tyranny that left an unhappy debtor to the mercy of a remorseless creditor whose affluence prevented him from knowing the sorrows of adversity and who , nursed in the lap of plenty , had never heard the call of hunger or knew the cry of distress . |
| 28 | ‘ My child has never heard the sound of laughter , ’ said the woman , ‘ and I do n't want him to die without hearing it . ’ |
| 29 | There was always a rumour that Noreen had had a baby to an Italian , but they had never heard the truth of it in Ireland . |
| 30 | Unlike the Cubists , the Futurists had never limited the colours on their palettes and were concerned with a wide range of subject-matter , so that they may have contributed to the general ‘ loosening-up ’ process that Cubism was undergoing . |