Example sentences of "never [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father and mother slept in the room facing the street and when I was small my black cast-iron drop sided cot was placed next to the bed which had a never -forgotten picture over it . |
| 2 | Chaplin never used film for some extraneous purpose ; rather he fulfilled himself as a cinema artist by using film 's own logic and by fulfilling the expectation of that vast audience that had come to accept film as something that worked and as something that offered ‘ sure-fire ’ entertainment . |
| 3 | The result was that sometimes members of the family or others who went to her for help came away empty-handed , however great their needs or deserts might be ; Addy never used need as a yardstick But on the other side of the medal were the occasions , such as this one , when she volunteered something you 'd never have dreamed of asking for , and you were free to accept it because you knew she 'd be disappointed , not relieved , if you refused . |
| 4 | I 've always thought it would be fun — We never celebrated Christmas at home . " |
| 5 | Never empty ashes into cane or rush wastepaper baskets . |
| 6 | For some reason , the Customs inspectors never suspected homes as smugglers . ’ |
| 7 | The common law never developed mechanisms for appeals as we understand them today , and all appellate powers are statutory in origin . |
| 8 | ‘ I would never subject Kirsty to that sort of tug-of-love . ’ |
| 9 | Keep the whole thing in perspective , avoid paranoia , and never substitute aggression for confidence . |
| 10 | The Masai never accepted football as the moral equivalent of war . |
| 11 | He was decisive and never wasted time on second thoughts . |
| 12 | Never fit valves to safety vent pipes . |
| 13 | In many ways the term ‘ one-parent family ’ is a misleading shorthand for a variety of situations ; from that of a never married mother of 19 , to that of a widowed mother of 55 . |
| 14 | You will not have to depend on now or never clinical demonstrations in the clinical room ; nor will you be reduced to knock-kneed terror at the prospect of a viva voce examination . |
| 15 | He circled the chamber slowly , stopping occasionally to examine the never changing activities of the ghostly figures . |
| 16 | Never living north of London . |
| 17 | A never idle man of great physical strength and extremely irascible — did he not fling a badly-baked plum pudding through a window upon Christmas Day ? — a man more joyous than any intellectual man of our world … |
| 18 | ‘ Dick Brogan , Stevie Kerrigan and Peter Mullen were never particular friends of mine , ’ he asserted harshly . |
| 19 | Unable to profit through such acts under any conditions , the Buid never associate aggression against humans with the generation of wealth or vitality . |
| 20 | There 's never sufficient doubt about who is the villain . |