Example sentences of "never [verb] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrivals Never judge a Toyota Paseo by its cover 39 |
| 2 | Needless to say , we never passed a hat shop . |
| 3 | ( Ironically , but also significantly , one is from a school which has never received a project grant and the other from a school which received a retrospective Minor grant some time before the deputy head herself took up her post . ) |
| 4 | He was a man whose personal life , though occasionally exigent , never became a siren song . |
| 5 | Straw plaiting was a widespread cottage industry in and around the Chiltern Hills , but it has left scarcely a sign on the landscape , for it never became a factory industry . |
| 6 | By some bureaucratic error I was never recalled , and because of this I never became a Giovane Fascista . |
| 7 | I mean I 've never heard a reggae record like this , nor any other record , come to that , imagine the sort of slow , two-note bassline of De La Soul 's ‘ What 's More ’ taken back to its R&B roots , with copping guitar , honking sax and leering swagger in the rhythm . |
| 8 | ‘ I know it 's silly , but I 've never outgrown a childhood tendency to travel sickness . |
| 9 | The Doctor said , ‘ There 's a saying on my planet , which roughly translates as ‘ never trust a Time Lord ’ . ’ |
| 10 | Give them the drawing number so we sent a transmittal note , course we never got a transmittal note back . |
| 11 | She never got a phone call about that job |
| 12 | Even if you have never given a bottle feed yourself it is possible that the baby received one from a nurse while in the maternity ward . |
| 13 | You 'll never make a poker player , Miss Swift ! ’ |
| 14 | But he insists regret should never make a footballer compromise on toughness . |
| 15 | He flexed his hands under the cloth , and shouted irritably at Rosa , ‘ You 'll never make a city woman , thank God , ’ and then , seeing her face fall , wondered at it . |
| 16 | ‘ I would not like to have the task of telling her that she would never make a crime reporter ! ’ |
| 17 | It is sometimes hard for cats to understand people and , like elephants , they never forget a shock encounter . |
| 18 | A MAN who complained of 17 years of hounding by the television licensing authority although he had never owned a TV set won a remarkable legal battle and £5,500 expenses yesterday . |
| 19 | Former Test fast bowlers Sir Richard Hadlee and Michael Holding have been made honorary life members of MCC , as have the club 's former secretary Jack Bailey , Laurance Hancock ( secretary of Staffordshire for 53 years until 1987 ) and Glamorgan stalwart Don Shepherd , who took 2174 wickets for the Welsh county but never won a Test cap . |
| 20 | Although karate developed in Japan , that country has never won a team world championship , whereas Great Britain has won it on no less than four occasions — a record unmatched in the history of karate . |
| 21 | Alain Michel was one of those men who looked like he 'd never win a world championship . |
| 22 | I 've never enjoyed a beach holidays because I 'm too scared to go in the water . |
| 23 | I never seen a Christmas tree so big — it 's as high as a house . |
| 24 | The NABC has never fostered a North/South divide and the suggestion from Mr Atkinson that we would give preference to the views from southern counties , as against northern counties , is totally without foundation . |
| 25 | Oxfordshire has never suffered a rabies case . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sure it will make a difference , ’ said Steve Wright , a ballroom dancer who happens to share his name with a Radio One disc jockey , a man who probably never played a Glenn Miller record in his life . |
| 27 | Vamplew has worked out that almost half of the players registered with First Division clubs in 1910 never played a League match . |
| 28 | He jumped from fence to fence and never put a foot wrong . ’ |
| 29 | But those statistics alone do n't tell the full story , for throughout the match he totally out played his opposite number Stuart Barnes and literally never put a foot wrong . |
| 30 | From start to finish , Rogers never put a foot wrong . |