Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [pron] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much of him was drawn into his eyes that he never heard the drumming of hooves cross the plateau from the ramp , or the rattle of the chains as the drawbridge was lowered in haste . |
| 2 | Ay , I I 've I 've said that to them I said well you might have , if I take to work you 'll certainly hear some they said tha well if that 's common usage words that 's what it has to be and words that we never use at all that are in dictionaries and nobody ever uses them , they want to know common ordinary speech words that we use . |
| 3 | It is another of life 's 765 secrets that you never do the best things deliberately , you pick your pleasures up along the way , by accident . |
| 4 | It characterises the Germans that they never cease to ask the question , ‘ What is German ? ’ |
| 5 | They do all sorts of erm projects that we never did . |
| 6 | In its post-election issue , the Independent on Sunday offered a list of phrases that it never wanted to hear again . |
| 7 | She had endowed the marriage ( and he could never really like the fellow ) most extravagantly out of her invested money , rather than taking a dip among the jewels that she never wore . |
| 8 | Animals learn to do many things that they never do as an unconditioned response to any stimulus . |
| 9 | Wh what was it common , I mean you were talking there about people would buy things that they never bought before ? |
| 10 | They make me want a lot of things that I never had . |
| 11 | They were the same sort of things that I never got invited to again . |
| 12 | I have experienced this directly in researching this book and am deeply indebted to many new friends , in areas of science that would have remained foreign to me , for their time and patience in explaining things that I never knew and I hope that we all gained from the experience . |
| 13 | I wanted nothing more , though I think Dana must have wanted other things that I never thought of offering him ; with him alone I would have been happy to do what I had always denied others . |
| 14 | There was a leather armchair and kitchen chairs which matched , and brass firedogs and a fender — in fact things that you never saw under the same roof in our district . |
| 15 | If so it is all the greater tribute to his qualities that he never took a step to force the issue or to encourage abdication . |
| 16 | Bill the dog always seems to walk at least twice as far as I do , running ahead for a while and coming back to check that I 'm following before he dives down a hole after rabbits that he never catches . |
| 17 | Presumably because I was too young , and because life was so full in other ways that I never had time or any real reason to question it . |
| 18 | There was a ring of thorn trees that we never cut , d'ye see ? for they said 't would annoy the Little People . ’ |
| 19 | And a fight on my hands that you never experienced . ’ |
| 20 | Through radical ‘ reflexive ’ spectacles , all this excavation work occurs so late in the process of constructing crime and criminals that it never gets to the foundations . |
| 21 | She stood dreaming , trying to imagine what it must be like to walk up the aisle to the side of a man who was waiting to marry you , and so enthralled was she with her imaginings that she never heard him . |
| 22 | ‘ The press was always very kind to us , giving us so many free editorials that we never had to pay a penny for advertising . |
| 23 | Such was the austerity of his habits that it never entered his head himself to have any kind of formal dinner in which I could join . |
| 24 | Alcatraz on the grounds that he never finishes a sentence . |
| 25 | Most of them seemed to be the kind that took the prepaid cards that he never had , but there were a couple of pay booths at the end of the row and he made for those . |