Example sentences of "never [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The losers , let us remind ourselves , are the old , the sick , the jobless , the low paid , the homeless and badly housed , the ill-educated , the deprived , the discriminated-against — that third of our society that never shared in the maldistributed prosperity of the Thatcher years , and will at best gain little , at worst lose further , in John Major 's ‘ classless ’ Britain . |
| 2 | It was tedious , but no longer alarming , and as she contrived most mornings to slip down to the shore for gulps of sea air , though she was careful now never to go beyond the rocks around the headland , she did not chafe at the confinement as once she had . |
| 3 | ‘ The point is that even if the bar never shuts in the house it is just as important to keep control of your drinking , ’ said the agency 's Director of Programme Development , Linda Barclay . |
| 4 | ‘ I never passed through the guard , ’ said Harry perforce . |
| 5 | Bellingham , the most expensive and prestigious barber in London and supplier still of razors to those clients who had never adjusted to the shaving habits of the twentieth century . |
| 6 | He had never joined in the masturbation rites at school , either . |
| 7 | But in spite of her enthusiasm , she never tumbled to the silent response which greeted her each time she told the story . |
| 8 | I never met with the fellow of her in my life . |
| 9 | While Mogul published a notice in the local paper seeking the retention of the lake , ‘ the application for retention was never received from the company , and the County Council did not pursue the matter . |
| 10 | Therefore , even if some particular sequence is the best possible protein for some particular function , and would be favoured by natural selection if once it arose , it could never arise in the first place merely by chance . |
| 11 | Er we never expected from the Department of Transport and any minute book . |
| 12 | We 've never jumped on the bandwagon 'cos it 's clearly going to end in tears , but there 's definitely been a vibe that has n't been around since the days of the Buzzcocks and The Electric Circus . |
| 13 | He had experimented in administering the powder to about fifty people over a period of five years ‘ and never failed in the cure ’ , except in some cases of severe or chronic ague , which required the addition of some grains of quinine . |
| 14 | In the course of a debate on a Bill to remove the marriage bar , introduced in 1927 , MPs expressed feelings of revulsion at the ‘ travesty of nature ’ presented by the image of a working mother and in the last instance a father at home looking after the baby , but the same degree of indignation was never aroused by the work of married women of a lower social class . |
| 15 | But modern boxing has a more sensitive audience , one that never goes to the arena but watches at home on the television . |
| 16 | my Dad does the shopping on his way home from work on a Friday , so my Mum never goes to the supermarket , |
| 17 | As we have already mentioned , for this reason , shelter sheds and troughs are never placed in the very corners of paddocks or yards . |
| 18 | ‘ God it was awful , ’ he said , and made them laugh and accept what he said , and Barnett never asked for the certificate this time . |
| 19 | Yet she was clearly not a European State , and she never became during the eighteenth century completely incorporated into the European diplomatic system . |
| 20 | Pay attention to the level of lighting and never sit in the shadow . |
| 21 | Tarkovsky : although Italian-funded , his films never pandered to the vacuous pan-European market |
| 22 | They had never heard of the Greeks , unless you counted the man who kept the Acropolis restaurant in Stowerton , and neither could now understand the emotion which held each of them , preserving him in silence and a kind of despair . |
| 23 | ‘ I had never heard of the area when I met a teacher from there in 1973 but we became friends and I started to visit . |
| 24 | Over 30% in this study had never heard of the ATB . |
| 25 | A number of respondents had either never heard of the ATB or had found out about it by accident . |
| 26 | Trent had never heard of the President being a drinker , secret or otherwise , and it was the sort of habit that could n't stay hidden in a country of Belpan 's size . |
| 27 | I think they thought , who is this bloke that keeps turning up for practices but does n't actually do anything and has never heard of the Who ! ’ |
| 28 | Such is fame : our exploit brought us international mention with a few lines by the Canadian Press but our feat was not mentioned in Robert Ripley 's ‘ Believe It or Not ’ column , and we had never heard of the Guinness Book of Records in those early days . |
| 29 | I 've never heard of the make before ( Melos ) , but it 's a nice machine and I 'll be sorry when the tape wears out . |
| 30 | Dorothy 's Journals provide a record of the tour , which involved the use of a vehicle described as ‘ an Irish jaunting car ’ ; they made a pilgrimage to the grave of Burns and visited Sir Walter Scott , whose Lay of the Last Minstrel was to introduce the new metre of Christabel to a public who had never heard of the source . |