Example sentences of "[noun] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the defendant had never been told he was being entrusted with secrets , there was no express covenant covering business secrets and the defendant never knew that he must not talk about his work outside his employment . |
| 2 | Not a muscle of Nan 's face moved , her stroke never faltered as she brushed and watched the flakes fall down on the newspaper she had spread beneath . |
| 3 | Mr Healey — the best leader Labour never had , and a man of such substance as the party no longer possesses — was regarding , from under shaggy eyebrows , the large and rollicking volume of his autobiography , just published , which lay on the table between us in his hotel suite . |
| 4 | For although his daughter Maire never became a top ballet star she is a member of a highly successful family band . |
| 5 | Florence Ames wanted them to meet , as they had always met so regularly , sharing a common isolation never expressed . |
| 6 | The Blushing Groom colt never had a moment 's worry on the soft ground , sitting in fifth position until straightening for home and then powering away from his rivals inside the two-furlong marker . |
| 7 | They were pioneers , simply because the Massaliotes never made any effort to know their neighbours . |
| 8 | I had to read it , a little of it , and if listeners never hear any good of themselves , then the little which I read shamed me forever . |
| 9 | This forming and re-forming of pictures never loses its serenity . |
| 10 | It will include private pictures never seen before — some of them shown exclusively here — sound tapes never previously heard in public and shots taken from 30 hours of film footage from Elvis 's home movies , showing him in intimate off-duty moments . |
| 11 | This capability never excludes either a sign or a speech coding and with increasing attention results are pointing to a great division in the effects , with deaf people showing greater use of sign-based coding when responses are made in sign . |
| 12 | Indeed , the creative and performing arts never seem to have become entirely integrated into the system — they do not quite fit standard CNAA validation procedures for example — and this is perhaps no bad thing . |
| 13 | This important oath not only bound Barbarossa never to recognise Alexander as pope , but also bound imperial successors as well as the bishops and princes . |
| 14 | Although the album never transcends the cultural and personal , it 's really not meant to . |
| 15 | The fighting never stopped from the time I got to Los Angeles , but no one gained ground . |
| 16 | It was my practice never to record anything , especially conversations , after three days … it is surprising how efficient one 's memory can become with practice . ’ |
| 17 | It would be good practice never to accept a referral without the knowledge and consent of the client , but issues of risk and protection with vulnerable elderly people sometimes lead to a decision to override that principle . |
| 18 | I 'll leave you to your fate , but I warn you , tame dragons never come to any good . |
| 19 | On the Grimm , dark side of the fairytale hides an aspect the fawning fans never see . |
| 20 | I 'm not sure , a boxer never returns , a tennis player never comes back , Bjorn Borg did n't . |
| 21 | The idea of breaking into the Colonel 's den never occurred to me — it was just too plain terrifying . |
| 22 | Frankie never made the mistake of approaching him without invitation . |
| 23 | Frankie never did . ’ |
| 24 | Jamila never closed the door , so Changez and I drank and looked through at our Jamila 's concentrating-so-hard profile , head bowed , as she read and sang and wrote in old school exercise books . |
| 25 | Yet in the interstices of the personal accounts , the authors never lose sight of the political issues which underpin the problems : the relationships between rich and poor , women and men , North and South . |
| 26 | a careful reading of this study ( Carr-Hill and Stern ) shows that the authors never carried out the test in question … but instead test the contribution of unemployment to explaining the number of police per capita in each area . |
| 27 | Yet it may have consequences that its authors never dreamed of . |
| 28 | Ellen never returned this caress . |
| 29 | And Ellen never replied now , not even with a note , though money was sent to her as regularly as ever . |
| 30 | And I thought it really had been a very good life , a fun life , despite Ellen never having gone to bed with me , and I wondered if my father would even notice my death , then the Maggot whooped with glee , hauled back on the stick , and our plane was screaming up into the wide blue lovely bullet-free sky and the Maggot was laughing and slapping my shoulder . |