Example sentences of "the [noun] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Sands in Reid 's Trustees v IRC ( 1929 ) 14 TC 512 at 527 explained that decision thus : The income never came into the coffers of the trustees , they never touched nor handled it . |
| 2 | The majority never does speak . |
| 3 | The prince never asked her . |
| 4 | There is no doubt that Charles has done a great deal that his father has been proud of and has excelled at sports like polo that the Duke of Edinburgh played when he was younger , but the Prince never felt he was good enough . |
| 5 | Once gained , the ridge never disappoints . |
| 6 | But , no matter how much Steven made his camera swoop and glide and giddy-up around the sets , he could n't stop them from looking like boring old panto scenery , especially since the galleon never put out to sea ( which would have been too mega-expensive ) , and the Lost Boys ' camp was crammed full of Starlight Express -style skate-boarding tracks . |
| 7 | In fact , the skirmish never took place because the enemy crossed the river further upstream and took their objective ‘ by the back-door ’ . |
| 8 | If they are not , then they are regarded as penalty clauses which are unenforceable at common law , so that the question of the applicability of s 3 of the UCTA never arises . |
| 9 | And the struggle never ends in a single life , let alone in the life of a society . |
| 10 | The company which owns the cinema never puts any pressure on us to go and see anything . |
| 11 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 12 | We would advise the beginner never to write his cello and bass parts on the same stave : if he does , he will almost surely fall into the error of over-using the double bass , his mind 's ear , which acts through his eye , being almost certain to fail to register the lower octave . |
| 13 | The Gulamalis never received the agreement form , the tenants ' deposit or the first month 's rent . |
| 14 | ‘ If the money never recovered was properly invested , it could multiply and multiply , ’ says former senior policeman Brian Worth who led the hunt for the gang . |
| 15 | The buck never stops with Ego ! |
| 16 | But the overkill never degenerates into a lumpen morass of noise which afflicts much HM . |
| 17 | The case never went to trial and was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount now known as the Wallis Foundation Fund , with which the Cezanne was purchased . |
| 18 | But the case never came to court . |
| 19 | The family brought every scrap of evidence or information they could find to the RUC , but that much prayed for breakthrough in the case never came . |
| 20 | The Reds never took SS prisoners . ’ |
| 21 | It is equally astonishing that the Germans never guessed that we were breaking the Enigma code . |
| 22 | Mind you , it was er it wa was n't er really dangerous because , of course , they , as you know , the the Germans never came . |
| 23 | In other words , the vast majority of the Germans never reached Austria at all . |
| 24 | In the event the Germans never carried out their threat . |
| 25 | The Germans never found them . |
| 26 | ‘ And the Germans never found it ? ’ |
| 27 | The union , not having been consulted , did not cooperate in supplying recruits ; many men refused to transfer and the reserve never reached its anticipated size . |
| 28 | It was claimed that the chairman never went fishing and did not own his boat . |
| 29 | It was denied again in Sir John Eliot 's Case ( 1629 ) 3 St Tr 294 , a decision which , however , the Houses never accepted and which , after objections in 1641 and 1667 , they eventually rejected in 1668 when the House of Lords reversed the decision of 1629 and held that there could be no proceedings in respect of words said in Parliament . |
| 30 | She wanted other children , and by then I 'd taken the decision never to have any more and had a vasectomy . |