Example sentences of "never make " in BNC.

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1 Men never make passes at girls who wear glasses .
2 Solitude , darkness , or the horrible crowd which one sees always in such places as this never make me the least afraid … .
3 ‘ Speechwriters never make it to secret agent , ’ he observed , perhaps wistfully ,
4 Leaving a dozen men under Ollokot to besiege Gibbon , Joseph led his people south at noon , hauling the wounded on travois and noting sadly : ‘ The Nez Perce never make war on women and children ; we could have killed a great many women and children while the war lasted , but we would feel ashamed to do so cowardly an act . ’
5 Never make love badly .
6 Never , never make an offer or agree to buy after only one visit .
7 Never make idle threats : there 's no point in telling a child , ‘ You wo n't come shopping with me again if you keep running off ’ when you know you have to take her along with you .
8 Others continue the hostility into adulthood and never make peace with their brothers and sisters — a phenomenon called sibling rivalry .
9 Fortunately most pet cats , if they do encounter a toad , quickly learn that it tastes bad and , after one preliminary nip , rapidly drop the squirming amphibian and never make the same mistake again .
10 I once visited a pensioner in my village and mentioned that I occasionally like jam but never make it myself because I do not eat it often enough .
11 Be perfect — that is , never make a mistake and always be ‘ good ’ .
12 Remember , machine knitters never make mistakes , they just invent new stitch patterns !
13 Never make eye contact .
14 Ropes let down into it seem to go down forever , coins dropped never make a sound , etc .
15 This is not to imply that we need always be certain nor never make mistakes ; but in cases of doubt we should nonetheless be ready with some description : I see something black and circular in the road , I hear creaks and rustlings downstairs .
16 No one can ever know the fatality rate , the numbers of young inexperienced birds who are tempted to take on the flight across the North Sea , but who never make it .
17 In the neo-elitist view it is important to study not just how the issues which become major political conflicts are resolved , but also which issues never make the political agenda at all or are prevented from reaching any decision when they do emerge as issues .
18 ‘ We never make very much , Tom . ’
19 Before leaving we were assured that the baggage conveyors , fully automated with multiple bar code scanners never make a mistake .
20 Job descriptions never make for exciting reading , no matter how exciting the job ( and the Profitboss always aims to make his people 's jobs exciting ) .
21 Yet never make that mistake , Flavia , never take lightly the one man in the prison cell . ’
22 Asked once about how long he thought the movie industry could last , he snapped : ‘ I never make predictions , especially about the future ’ .
23 you know , there 's no vow there , but all we do is join hands together , share blessings to both of us , and no vow , we never make any vow but they made a blessing for us .
24 Never make a rash move in conflicting traffic situations because you 'll find yourself Er they might gesticulate at you , they might blow their horn at you , they might say some very rude words that you 've never heard before .
25 ‘ And you never make a mistake or change a word . ’
26 courses are also such that a substantial number of candidates never make the grade .
27 However , what this assumes is that the police never make decisions to de-politicise crime , which they plainly do in their endeavour to argue that many assaults by whites upon black are not racist in their intent , merely matters of public order .
28 Sadly , most never make it past the sorting stage and instead wind up as fire-lighters at a nearby sugar plantation .
29 I 'm a business and a factory , the work-force and the boss I 'm the brains and the belly and I never make a loss
30 Never make a hole in the ice by hitting it with a blunt instrument as this will kill or concuss the fish .
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