Example sentences of "the [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Gulamalis never received the agreement form , the tenants ' deposit or the first month 's rent . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | But the overkill never degenerates into a lumpen morass of noise which afflicts much HM . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But the case never came to court . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was claimed that the chairman never went fishing and did not own his boat . |
| 20 | She wanted other children , and by then I 'd taken the decision never to have any more and had a vasectomy . |
| 21 | First of all you advertise in a trade magazine , and your current chef , reliable , but limited in ability , sees the advertisement and leaves the kitchen never to return . |
| 22 | The cheque never arrived and I heard nothing more ! |
| 23 | She was extremely grateful and the course saw out the war in this fashion the camp never materialising . |
| 24 | ‘ Masculine ’ on the contrary never carries these negative implications ; it simply implies strong , sometimes powerful and not effeminate . |
| 25 | In the pre-Gockley era , the HGO never attained the glamour of its sister companies in Dallas and San Antonio ; it was best known for presenting young stars on the rise ( Plácido Domingo was a regular in the 1960s ) and legendary performers at the end of their careers ( Inge Borkh and Richard Tucker , among others ) , in very traditional productions of the core repertory ) . |
| 26 | But to his enormous relief the story never got out . |
| 27 | Either yet another ingenious auxiliary hypothesis is proposed or … the whole story is buried in the dusty volumes of periodicals and the story never mentioned again . |
| 28 | The most prevalent conspiracy theory in Iraq nowadays is that the West never wanted to get rid of Saddam and were actually on his side , helping him to flush his enemies out into the open . |
| 29 | Cross-references forward , whether from OED to itself or from Supplement to itself , are either non-existent , inaccurate , or ( occasionally ) ghosts ( because the object of the cross-reference never materialized in print for some reason ) . |
| 30 | The driver never disputed that the engine was a foreigner , but pins his defence , he pointed out that the week previous , he had taken over and ex-LNER B.1 4–6–0 working from Sheffield to Llandudno , and despite that being a foreigner , had been acceptable . |