Example sentences of "that [verb] never [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At very long meetings , punctuated by the arrival of quite excellent sandwiches — for me the most unhealthy of all foodstuffs — I had to listen to the outpourings of the leading fanatics in the medical profession ; to the timorous intervention of the moderates ; and happily to the constant , wise and soothing interventions of Derek Damerell , the chief executive of BUPA , to whom the country owes a debt that has never received proper recognition . |
| 2 | We can even discuss ways of deliberately cultivating and nurturing pure , disinterested altruism — something that has no place in nature , something that has never existed before in the whole history of the world . |
| 3 | Something that has never felt right before . |
| 4 | Mr Clinton can not run the risk of sending Americans into a war that has never engaged much public attention without congressional cover . |
| 5 | There 's so much good stuff that has never seen the light of day . |
| 6 | The advantage for the butterfly is that if a bird seizes it by the wings , and is reminded of some earlier unpleasant experience with the species and its toxin , it will release the insect unharmed : a bluejay that has never seen a monarch butterfly will readily catch and eat it ; but within 15–30 minutes the toxins in the butterfly 's body cause the bird to vomit , and one such encounter is sufficient to make a bluejay avoid monarchs thereafter . |
| 7 | These ancient piles of stones , long known as the Three Men of Gragareth , have an origin beyond the memory of man : they stand side by side , mute sentinels overlooking a vast panorama that has never changed and never will . |
| 8 | I went one better and something happened that has never occurred in about 25 years of using the modern type of machine with yarn mast and tension spring . |
| 9 | An initial period of identification is important to a repressed group that has never had adequate self-images . |
| 10 | When Arthur Guinness started to brew porter in his Dublin brewery he created an insatiable demand for his beer that has never waned in Ireland . |
| 11 | The F minor Fantaisie also suggest that Cortot never compromised where his intensity of vision was concerned , aiming for speeds which other more stable pianists would never dare consider , and achieving in the process truly demonic force rather than the heroics of received custom or taste . |
| 12 | ‘ Them stuck in there , all they can see is bars , an' us saying ‘ Look at them , are n't they sweet ’ , and them with legs that can run a hundred miles and skin made for boiling heat standing there in cages in rain and snow and hailstorms and having babies that 've never seen the bush and the jungle and the step — ’ |
| 13 | And by ‘ them ’ he meant the English who identified with a country and a people that had never accepted them . |
| 14 | Later in the night she would discover the scars , the knife wound across his shoulder-blades where he 'd been slashed in a Belfast bar , and the bullet wound above his right knee that had never healed properly , a legacy from when he was on border patrol and one of his own men had panicked and opened fire on him . |
| 15 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 16 | His love for Kay was one love that had never spoiled . |
| 17 | What was it that these two friends of his felt for women that had never touched him ? |
| 18 | I have run in more than 30 cities , including places that had never seen a runner before . |
| 19 | He was oddly sluggish and lazy , more like a leery veteran than a horse that had never seen a racecourse . |
| 20 | They yeah we used to call in Tex and he , he could n't believe that there were old people living in Walsall at the time in this country the size of England , and people living in Walsall that had never seen the sea in their lives , and this guy coming from America could n't believe this . |
| 21 | Particularly in the streets that have undergone a great deal of change since the war , like the street where I live myself , which is another thing that prompted me to , to go into the research in the first place , which is erm a house of small Victorian erm I believe the estate agents call them artisans ' cottages , and this kind of area which , there 's a great deal of this sort of property in Brighton , has undergone enormous changes since the war from being multi-occupied before the war , with one family on each floor , were regarded immediately after the war as slums and were scheduled for demolition , but they 've been a great lease of life all over the country , this sort of property , and been subjected to a process which has come to be known as gentrification , which has meant that when the middle class could n't afford to , to buy semi-detached in suburbs they took to buying this kind of smaller property in town centres , thereby introducing a whole new element into streets that had never seen these , this kind of things done to houses before . |
| 22 | This emperor would be the secular arm of the pope following papal policies : in some ways a simplistic interpretation of the Donation of Constantine , perhaps — the return to an ideal that had never existed . |
| 23 | Furthermore , quite irrationally , some retired husbands begin to harbour dire suspicions about their wives ' working colleagues , imagining romantic entanglements that had never crossed their minds before . |
| 24 | Some shivered in the cold breeze of change : others struck out boldly , with a sense of freedom , glad to be unencumbered by out-of-date gear and padding , glad to cast off notions that had never seemed to themselves to be smart or necessary : naked into the stream , exhilarated , the new emerging race . |
| 25 | Closing her eyes , she tried to regain sleep that had never seemed more elusive . |
| 26 | It was a language that had never failed ; it had no ambiguities ; it could cope with all emergencies . |
| 27 | Across the room she smiled at Rachaela her straight white teeth that had never needed a dentist . |
| 28 | I was holding off buying an away shirt , as I did n't want to wear a shirt that had never won a game . |
| 29 | Ludicrous though the description might sound in print , for an organisation that had never numbered more than sixty followers and had rarely mustered more than twenty , it was strictly accurate and hardly to be dismissed by a regime uniquely devoted to National Socialism . |
| 30 | But here , for the first time , she realised something essential , something that had never occurred to her when composing those letters ; that a performance was something that a person did , and not something that they were . |