Example sentences of "never [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Whenever Robinson struck for a grip he moved quickly and broke it , never allowing the older man to settle . |
| 6 | " I know you 're a faggot and everything but I 'll tell you what the problem is : you just never met the right guy . |
| 7 | I never met the right woman . |
| 8 | He never met the young air force crew , never even saw them , yet he has never forgotten them either . |
| 9 | Would they never answer the bloody thing ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I never expected the first scrap to be so easy , ’ Callaghan said . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ The team has never stopped the hard work and the new Celica has improved over the year . |
| 15 | She 'd never been driven that fast before , never experienced the sheer exhilaration and heart-stopping fear that merged into one as the F40 powered on the knife edge of its optimum limits . |
| 16 | Carolyn never experienced the same sort of anguished worry about her as she had with Chris . |
| 17 | She had never heard the whole story , but apparently some of his ideas were considered a little too daring for the traditionalists in Tokyo , and he found the rug pulled from under him . |
| 18 | I 've never heard the enormous crocodile . |
| 19 | Well I buy Writers Monthly , but I never read the damn thing , you know , so I |
| 20 | Our pens were collected up at the end of each session , so we never got the same pen twice , resulting in the nibs being frequently crossed . |
| 21 | He was England 's match-winning bowler against the West Indies here a year ago but he never got the same bite and purchase yesterday . |
| 22 | never got the same chance . |
| 23 | He was chosen as tight-head for the ‘ Boks against the FNB side in 1989 but injured himself on that same day and never got the elusive cap . |
| 24 | You fellow Christians — never lose the warm love for your Lord , because that is the very centre of your service for him . |
| 25 | You can never experience the real satisfaction of growing roses well by following a list of step-by-step instructions . |
| 26 | He never made the seventy-mile journey from Aix to Geneva , which was then the centre of the international world . |
| 27 | When he lectured he never made the slightest attempt to underline what had been his own ( considerable ) contributions to the subject . |
| 28 | The headlines , this time ‘ I Should Be So Scruffy ’ , ensured she never made the same mistake again . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're saying you 've never given the poor girl a scrap of encouragement ? ’ she mocked scornfully . |
| 30 | But the 24-year-old could never make the final break from the mother of his two sons , two-year-old Keith and baby Stephen . |