Example sentences of "[noun] that [pron] [verb] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harold MacMillan , Prime Minister , might still be saying to the electorate that they had never had it so good — which was true in terms of the change-round from post-war reconstruction , wartime destruction , and the days of depression ; but to someone of Leonard 's background , from Canada , the place was a bore . |
| 2 | And although I have occasionally considered a larger tank in the house ( I have a 48″ × 15″ × 15″ ) , accommodating it would involve so much disruption that I have never bitten the bullet . |
| 3 | It crossed Juliet 's mind that she 'd never given him her home number , so how could he know it ? |
| 4 | Callaghan told Joel Barnett that he had never felt so depressed , and the news spread . |
| 5 | I could do a couple of tapes worth of slang words that they 've never heard of before . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Cissie had a love of reading , especially since Beth had helped her to master the longer words that she had never really understood . |
| 8 | He suffered from the small disadvantage that he had never been to Rhodesia . |
| 9 | He had offered the car to Hubert for the summer on condition that everyone promised never to stand on the running boards , because they were threatening to fall off . |
| 10 | Deacon 's structure involves two complementary shapes joined at right angles ; shapes that one has never seen before but one recognises as familiar . |
| 11 | The candlelight on the peeling walls made scary shapes that I 'd never noticed before . |
| 12 | The sheep had gone strangely quiet and there was a queer thundering noise that he 'd never heard before . |
| 13 | They will go about the city in the weeks to come , and Phil will point out things behind doorways and up courtyards that he 'd never noticed , and explain how the whole set-up of the city is really a conspiracy , and read out public notices in a voice that makes them suddenly ridiculous , and persuade him to believe preposterous stories . |
| 14 | So absurd was the idea to Weinberger that he seems never to have understood the hold it acquired over other people , including the President . |
| 15 | There was also , she vaguely noted , in one corner a piano , and the windows had shutters of a kind that she had never seen in England . |
| 16 | Most of the food was of a kind that she 'd never seen in the shops ; there was no wine or beer , but Belov had a hip-flask of vodka . |
| 17 | ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’ |
| 18 | It is one of my proudest boasts that I have never thought about insurance and I am convinced that , even under torture , I could resist the temptation . |
| 19 | It was one of his few boasts that he had never taken an academic examination in his life . |
| 20 | He 'd lit a bonfire beneath her , releasing in her all sorts of wild emotions that she had never , even fleetingly , experienced before . |
| 21 | IT MAY surprise readers of this column that I have never in my life voted Conservative at a general election . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's a parochial side to Scotland that I 've never been able to accept . |
| 23 | Yet even Eubank , deep down , does question his continuation in a sport that he has never really liked . |
| 24 | This once powerful man was so implanted in their lives that they had never really left Great Meadow , in spite of jobs and marriages and children and houses of their own in Dublin and London . |
| 25 | Monsieur Venet , the proprietor 's son is the chef and cooks with a passion , creating dishes with wonderfully rich sauces and flavours that we 'd never savoured before . |
| 26 | Everything made sense now — his obsessional hatred of the drugs world , his grim determination to fight the dealers , his refusal to accept her repeated protests that she had never been involved . |
| 27 | Loren was upstairs , engaged in that long getting-ready process that he 'd never quite been able to fathom . |
| 28 | Some violence is , of course , sheer unadulterated sadism with an accompanying orgiastic delight in hurting and remember that we all have a sadistic capacity and there are not many people so out of touch with the darker , deeper aspects of their human nature that they have never indulged a sadistic fantasy . |
| 29 | the island boasts an abundance of wild life — you will see animals , birds and fish that you have never dreamed of in a setting of luxurious vegetation . |
| 30 | His hands stroked and tantalised , sought out the hidden , sensitive places , and aroused in her longings that she had never before experienced . |