Example sentences of "never [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I never agreed to buy these shares at that price . |
| 2 | They never expected to see any freedom in their lifetime . |
| 3 | I never expected to say that of a work by Howard Brenton . |
| 4 | ‘ It never stopped raining all that day so he wo n't mind the ground , ’ said Ian Balding . |
| 5 | The plucky 14-year-old was determined however to experience the magic of DisneyWorld and never stopped smiling all week . |
| 6 | Mr Gordon added : ‘ Quotas were never intended to benefit some at the expense of others . |
| 7 | because I said it was erm Simon 's , and then I did n't know really where they lived and erm , I know they moved out , out of next door to Lesley 's , and in the end it never got done that , that more to the point but erm I ca n't do that up until I 've done that can I ? |
| 8 | But he never got to finish that particular line . |
| 9 | She was always one for secrets … we never got to meet any of her school-friends . |
| 10 | The child was born to what must have been exhausted parents , strained to their physical and mental limits , and it never lived to see another year ; in the December of 1771 the nameless infant was buried on Catherine Hill — the first occupant of plot number 119 , but certainly not the last . |
| 11 | Whilst never daring to suggest these catering methods are new they can be the key to a foodservice that is certainly vastly improved . |
| 12 | Some girl who would never need to make such explanations , some girl who had been bred in a world which did not admit such dresses . |
| 13 | Our concern is rather to break away from the stale confrontation of reason and spontaneity which has persisted since the Romantic Movement , to invite the man of reason to admit that he never has had any ends which did not spring from his own spontaneity , and the intuitive and impulsive that no insight that flashes from theirs can be acknowledged as objective truth until it survives the ruthless justice of reason . |
| 14 | Which it never has had any effect on at all . |
| 15 | There were heavy snowfalls in areas which never expect to see such wintry conditions . |
| 16 | No doubt the Japanese can justify their prices , but as much as I like their sports cars , I would never consider buying any of their cars in the UK . |
| 17 | I never want to see either of them again . |
| 18 | I never want to face that sort of thing again . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I never want to hear that name again , ’ Sophie broke in , then felt rather foolish as Helen raised her eyebrows . |
| 20 | I 'm not against anyone trying to help put youngsters straight , but people like Deanes never want to hear any point of view but their own . |
| 21 | I thought , if this is what movies are like in Hollywood , I never want to make another one . |
| 22 | But he never tried to take any food from the other children . |
| 23 | I never tried to copy those guitar players , but I tried to steal it and kind of change it a little bit . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't believe that I never stopped to think that Amber , four , was in the room , too , when I started punching her father , ’ Gail recalls . |
| 25 | The judge said he would never expect to see another crime like it . |
| 26 | It was impossible to tell if the plight of a girl she had never met made any impact on her at all . |
| 27 | At first she and Ernest had been completely mystified , for how could some solicitors they had never met have any news for them which would be ‘ to their advantage ’ ? |
| 28 | Next to the court was Mr. Stone 's Grocery Shop which never seemed to do much trade — it opened late and closed early — the stock was limited so few people patronised it . |
| 29 | Paula certainly never seemed to encounter such problems . |
| 30 | The only wooden stairs that never seemed to make any noise were those inch-thick slabs in modern public buildings ; house stairs always took pleasure in announcing to everybody what you were doing . |