Example sentences of "never [adv] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because my first experience of love was here , I have never wholly transplanted myself from this soil . |
| 2 | Because Vaughan could never entirely rid himself of envy of Minton and his way of life , he remained edgily critical of him . |
| 3 | I said there 's a lot to be said for a chap that you inside out know his ways and how to cope with them but never ever put yourself at his mercy by marrying him . |
| 4 | Oh he adores her , oh yes he wants her back , and I said , she said , I , you see , I know him , I said there 's a lot to be said for a chap that you know inside , know his ways and know how to cope with them , but I said never ever put yourself at his mercy , I 'm marrying him , and the house will be hers , you see , when there properly divorced it 'll be in her name so if he starts coming the old soldier , she can bung him out . |
| 5 | I have never really regarded myself as a landscape painter . |
| 6 | By way of total contrast , I can point to Birchfield sprinter Phil Brown , who never really felt himself to be any different from other school children and admitted to having ‘ no identity with other blacks ’ . |
| 7 | Nothing is as it seems , he maintains : he never really saw himself as the prototype Cockney photographer from Blow Up ; he sees himself more as Puck from A Midsummer Night 's Dream . |
| 8 | Mr Blue , though a magnificent dog himself , never really proved himself as a stud , whereas Superman , one of six champions sired by Bulli , became a prolific sire . |
| 9 | Curiously , of John 's first hundred Palace appearances , almost half were as a substitute and , although he demonstrated great potential , he never really established himself as a regular member of our side until the autumn of 1990 . |
| 10 | ‘ Unlike our British neighbours … the parliamentary system never really established itself in our political life ’ . |
| 11 | The upshot is that Marx never even concerns himself with questions such as the relation between individual perceptions to objects or the texture of feelings , sensations and thoughts , which might have led him towards a theory of where individuality occurs . |
| 12 | But all governments are holier-than-thou in this respect and never publicly associate themselves with them . |
| 13 | All the time he slept she lay there longing acutely for him to go , and when he did she felt the most immense relief and vowed that now she had escaped his presence she would never never put herself in that position again . |