Example sentences of "never [verb] [pers pn] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For my mother , who remembered seeing her only brother , also called Robert , off to France in the First World War , never to see him again , this farewell on the platform must have been agony . |
| 2 | But he 'd stood up well to that first interview , hindered rather than helped by the presence of his solicitor , who had never seen his client before and had made it painfully apparent that he would prefer never to see him again . |
| 3 | Had he been so certain then he would n't still be guarding her name so zealously lest any whisper of their attachment got out and so caused Rosemary to decide never to see him again . |
| 4 | She shares the heartache felt by many owners who lose their horses to thieves , often never to see them again . |
| 5 | It was extraordinary to think that once he had loved this woman to distraction , and now all he wanted was never to see her again . |
| 6 | And because I 've met you , Mr Rochester , and I ca n't bear never to see you again . |
| 7 | It burst from her lips before she could think , before she could stop it : " I could n't bear never to see you again . " |
| 8 | In this deadlock the King , physically menaced and fearing the impeachment of the Queen , who was involved in various army plots against Parliament , left London , never to see it again until his trial . |
| 9 | Knowledge of how the brain evolved is likely to reduce that risk , but it can never eliminate it completely . |
| 10 | But at the same time we 'll never eliminate it completely . |
| 11 | You 'll never eliminate it altogether , you know . |
| 12 | ‘ He said he 'd never prescribed it before but he was willing to let me try it . |
| 13 | But I ate myself silly on them last night and made myself feel sick so I 'll never eat them again now . |
| 14 | Do n't know why we never realised it before but Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive officer , Scott McNealy is the company 's largest single shareholder with about 2.1m shares or 2.2% of the outstanding stock , making him worth about $60m . |
| 15 | I never realized it before , but we 've got to do it our way … |
| 16 | Do n't know why we never realized it before but Sun chief executive officer , Scott McNealy is the firm 's largest single shareholder with about 2.1m shares or 2.2% of the outstanding stock . |
| 17 | But do you know , Norman , in all the years that Halifax held office I never met him once . ’ |
| 18 | The fear of never seeing her again swamped his other feelings , even lust and shyness . |
| 19 | We held on to our coats for fear of never seeing them again , and mingled with the doomed souls . |
| 20 | And then , since her father 's fatal heart attack eighteen months ago , no sooner had she slowly started to come to terms with his loss , to face the grief and despair at the thought of never seeing him again , than her mother 's letters and telephone calls had begun to fill her with stunned horror . |
| 21 | Just the sight of him made her go weak , ache , and the thought of never seeing him again , never being able to touch him , was a twisting pain in her heart . |
| 22 | But that was nothing to the agony of never seeing him again , her heart replied despairingly . |
| 23 | She wanted them to go on being friends — if this cold formality was friendship — because anything was better than never seeing him again . |
| 24 | ‘ What I look forward to is never seeing it again . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Well , that 's never stopped us before , has it ? ’ |
| 26 | It 's never stopped you before ! ’ |
| 27 | Well it 's never stopped you before ! |
| 28 | ‘ People bring dogs to Mrs Cass and she never turns them away . ’ |
| 29 | Creggan had felt the coming of spring before , a coming that overtook his spirit and made it busy and turbulent , but he had never witnessed it so well . |
| 30 | ‘ I never asked it before . |