Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [pron] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pub was a two storeyed building , with a stable at the side although I never saw horses there . |
| 2 | ‘ And then we have an old lady , more or less an invalid so she never goes out , who thinks she saw someone climbing over the garden fence one night . |
| 3 | The next question was why had he gone to so much trouble and expense if he never intended to use this place as his base ? |
| 4 | Hector is a brilliant soldier because he never loses the NCO 's love of discipline through drill . |
| 5 | Well it is n't a lot , really , but I suppose it is when you 're on the gear 'cos you never get round to paying it off . |
| 6 | The Farm represent everything utterly obnoxious about this country , probably not their fault as they never had a decent education , but glorifying football thuggery , provincial mediocrity and small-minded plebbiness only encourages the pettiness of our current society . |
| 7 | Ackland seems the sort of man who could hammer a nail in with his clenched teeth so he never begins to look like a tentative nonentity . |
| 8 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 9 | Sadly , I only ever saw my grandmother a couple of times so I never came to know her . |
| 10 | Janine and her mum and dad act like she never got married . |
| 11 | Rediscovering and making heroes of overlooked Old Mistresses does n't challenge the exclusivity of art history , the way it masquerades as a specialism — so it talks only about form and sources , influences and patrons — while collaborating with the class of owners and dealers in art as rich people 's commodities because it never talks about social conditions of race , class , gender or sexuality . |
| 12 | He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists . |
| 13 | ‘ But what 's the point of going up to Luxor if you never get a chance to see anything ? ’ asked Nanette . |
| 14 | Would you have got together with Rosalind if you never met Juliet , would you have actually got together with Rosalind ? |
| 15 | But suddenly I 'm looking round that kitchen like I never saw it before . |
| 16 | So she did n't expe , you know the ma , matrix system of levels and stuff I did n't fully understand that until the fourth year when I went with Miss cos she never explained it because she did n't reckon you needed to know . |
| 17 | He quite enjoyed the process although he never fancied the women concerned . |
| 18 | ‘ I ca n't get a regular game for Bath 's first team so it never occurred to me that I might be selected , ’ he revealed . |
| 19 | Everyone has their own and it 's a great shame if they never get a chance to ask them . ’ |
| 20 | And he gave me a smacker on the forehead , said he 'd keep me up his sleeve if he never made it to the altar . |
| 21 | Conservatives have traditionally urged the value of the Lords as a revising Chamber : what good is a revising body if it never revises ? |
| 22 | You lose your confidence because you never know whether you 've just asked that question or whether you are simply talking out-of-date rubbish . |
| 23 | What 's the point of having a phone if you never answer ? he said . |
| 24 | What 's the point of having a phone if you never answer it ? he asked me . |
| 25 | The prisoner learns in this jungle to trust no one , and because no one is to be trusted then it becomes additionally dangerous to share feelings because you never know when they will be used against you . |
| 26 | But the shares are a high risk for investors because you never know how the clubs will perform . |
| 27 | Colborne was pulling the other way : he said there was a social revolution going on outside the palace gates ; he believed young people needed leadership as they never had needed it before , and the Prince was the one who could lead them . |
| 28 | ‘ I hardly ever wear dresses as they never fit — you always see me in shorts . |
| 29 | But we always put one particular herren what we called the October blue-nosed herren because they never wasted when they were hung up to be smoked . |
| 30 | The baby nest I bought , a sort of quilted bag , was a waste of money because I never seemed to have the opportunity to use it . |