Example sentences of "never [verb] [noun] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN it was first screened in 1989 , Birds of a Feather ( Sunday , BBC1 , 8.20pm ) caused outrage , not because of the language , but because viewers had never heard women speak like that on television before . |
| 2 | No , I 'd never heard Hilary mention him , ’ said Mrs Frome . |
| 3 | She had never heard Louise speak in this tone of voice before . |
| 4 | She had never heard Foucard speak so soothingly , so encouragingly . |
| 5 | Emmie thought she had never heard people laugh so much or sound so happy . |
| 6 | I had never heard Pike sing in real life , so I could n't tell how this spirit voice matched up to the real one . |
| 7 | Black tie and a waistcoat would never make Charlie look like a playboy , only like a bartender . |
| 8 | He had never let Anthony carry that much around . |
| 9 | Always try to encourage growth from the base , and never let wood become old , brown and barky — that shows you are timid . |
| 10 | Never let women get you down . |
| 11 | FIVE — never let ignorance hold you back and do n't pay consultants to teach you things you ought to find out for yourself . |
| 12 | She was free to stay in Rome , not at the palazzo — she could never do that , never let Nicolo provide her with room and board and a salary , and yet take her into his bed each night . |
| 13 | Well , as a rule … we ‘ ave to get it out of the food money and go short , but I never let Smith suffer — ‘ e ‘ as to go to work , and must be kept up , yer know ! |
| 14 | No one is quite sure whether Baxter 's stories are fact or fiction but like that other legendary wordsmith , the former Liverpool manager Bill Shankly , Slim Jim never let reality get in the way of a good yarn . |
| 15 | I just never let people know I 'm doing it — I save it for behind closed doors . |
| 16 | But she never let fame go to her head . |
| 17 | I have never seen England play better than they did against Ireland and I 'm sure few other people would argue about that . |
| 18 | ‘ Except in the celebrations that greeted the end of World War II , I have never seen England look as unashamedly delighted by life as it did during the World Cup , ’ Arthur Hopcraft has written . |
| 19 | I had to admit that I 'd never seen Darren look so good . |
| 20 | I said I thought he was a right in fact I 've never seen Sally like it before I said I felt quite really |
| 21 | This was n't the India I knew : during five previous visits I had never seen women kiss each other . |
| 22 | He 'd never seen stars like he 'd seen them around here , cold and diamond-sharp and so many . |
| 23 | I 'd never seen Terry look so hopeful about anything before . |
| 24 | I 've never seen Guy like that . |
| 25 | I 've never seen people eat chips , cos you know how you get sick of chips sometimes , we 's shovelling down the chips down and coke , proper coke they were drinking . |
| 26 | He had never seen Mandy look contrite before , and he decided , wickedly , to make her suffer a bit before he let her off the hook . |
| 27 | There were alot of helicopters going overhead and when they came I have never seen children move so fast . |
| 28 | I 've never seen guys cough up so fast ! ’ |
| 29 | John had never seen men work so willingly or cheerfully . |
| 30 | He had never seen Englishmen get themselves into such a state before ; they looked more like untouchables . |