Example sentences of "that [noun] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be stated that Yamamoto never wanted war with the United States and advised against it . |
| 2 | Wishart , on his visits to Hamilton Terrace , began to realise that Minton never listened to wise advice and seemed almost frightened of intelligent people . |
| 3 | ( The facts that Rousseau never used the phrase ‘ noble savage ’ , and that Hobbes has been widely misinterpreted are irrelevant here , since my concern is not with the conceptions that two seminal thinkers actually articulated , but is rather with the stereotyped dichotomous conceptions of human nature and human society that have come to be associated with their names . ) |
| 4 | That is what I take to be the goal of all writing : to open up fenced-off plots , to water tracts of land that have dried out , to make accessible thoughts and feelings that readers never knew they had or thought they were not allowed to have . |
| 5 | The need for the new test is underlined by a report today from the Royal Automobile Club and the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents which suggests that drivers never read the Highway Code after passing their driving test . |
| 6 | She was well and in good form , but unfortunately I never see her now without Herman Schrijver John Pope-Hennessy was the fourth ) , and he is so frivolous and gossippy [ sic ] — which one would love in other circumstances — that Ivy never says anything interesting , and there are always the same conversations . |
| 7 | They prudently used the exercise court that Jeopardy never frequented . |
| 8 | However hard she had to fight , she would make certain that Janice never became Kirsty 's mother ! |
| 9 | You see , I 'm sad to say that Sidney never came back . |
| 10 | It is a basic rule that governments never get involved with other nations ' politics . |
| 11 | On this occasion in Dunvegan he repeated his earlier assertion that Burke never made a good joke . |
| 12 | They are always surprised , however , that Rover never seems to learn , whatever tactics they employ . |
| 13 | Maybe it is a fact that trilogies never work : Future Shock was a brilliant exposition of new thinking ; The Third Wave was a superb consolidation of it . |
| 14 | ‘ At his best , he was as great as Peter Sellers , although he had a humility that Sellers never aspired to , ’ Took now says . |
| 15 | Standards are so high that guests never suspect they are bathing in a prefab and installation is quick and easy . |
| 16 | Wife or not , she knew that Stephen never gave praise unless he thought it was due . |
| 17 | That much said , it remains true that Strabo never went north of Populonia in Etruria , knew little Latin and was bound to depend on written Greek sources for his account of the Celtic lands . |
| 18 | It was well known that Selene never had any opinion about anything . |
| 19 | Modigliani did not mention Beatrice ; it seems likely that Eugenia never heard about the affair from him , and she remained an unintegrated part of his life . |
| 20 | We can now mix species to create whole NEW ANIMALS that nature never intended . |
| 21 | Richardson claims that a number of other things that are coming up at Christie 's this month belong to him : notably a Picasso drawing of Dora Maar and some Braque Christmas cards that Cooper never forwarded . |
| 22 | Whatever is supposed to happen in the meantime , or in the event that alternatives never become available , cowers the imagination . |
| 23 | And it helped that Grant never let us down financially , and phoned home every day . |
| 24 | If you had thought that Greeks never worry about animals , or rubbish , go to Aegina . |
| 25 | And just to prove further that things never change the Oban Town Council were arguing about a slipway and boat park and whether to set land aside for an Esplanade … |
| 26 | I mean , you get the lowdown on stuff that writers never get , because you 're working with these people and you get the real story — not the stuff that goes on in books and magazines . |
| 27 | Another old rule decreed that dancers never turned their backs on the audience , because all had to face the king , the centre of attention . |
| 28 | She was one of the youngest Brownies , but she was very honest and outspoken The Pack had soon learned that Jill never feared to speak her mind and to say what she thought was right . |
| 29 | The point , though , is that Neath never asked to be set on this pedestal . |
| 30 | So the point of the maxim that actions speak louder than words is not that people never use non-linguistic actions to communicate ( which is when they may be deliberately misleading ) , but that language is much less often used to do anything else . |