Example sentences of "[verb] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shell never fights costly bid battles , but spends $1.5 billion a year steadily buying oil and gas assets . |
| 2 | Every one of the Pack was firmly resolved never to give the new farmer cause for taking away their wonderful meeting-place from them . |
| 3 | Having resolved never to let it happen again , she aims to provide not only for her retirement but for her daughter Gemma , aged ten , who with luck will be well settled into her career by the time Margaret 's DOUBLE PAYOUT policy matures . |
| 4 | Many former refugee children report never having seen a Bloomsbury House representative . |
| 5 | I want never to arrive . |
| 6 | Yes , but say he reappeared , and Aldhelm never came . |
| 7 | The Pentland Firth and Scapa Flow , Lerwick and Sullom Voe were soon as familiar as the south coast and the Solent had become in the past , but familiarity would never make us treat these places with anything but respect and I tried never to take chances . |
| 8 | I tried never to throw any food away . |
| 9 | For that 's what a relationship is for me — the making of a promise , albeit rarely uttered , that I will strive never to hurt , damage , betray , demean or disappoint this person I claim to love . |
| 10 | They say never ask for whom the bell tolls , but when Steven Ivin heard one ring out after the second world war he knew it tolled for him . |
| 11 | Of 70 injectors interviewed in depth , only 25% reported never having shared syringes ; 57% reporting reusing syringes in the previous six months , using a range of cleaning agents including household bleach . |
| 12 | Nineteen of the 25 children were reported never to have established a regular sleep pattern , and 22 were classified as having severe sleep problems . |
| 13 | She was resigned never to meet the right man . |
| 14 | Will WONDERS never cease ? |
| 15 | To bulk up the reference list by including citations to work never read , and often cribbed from other researcher 's Reference Lists . |
| 16 | In fact 77% of those interviewed never read a daily paper at all , and 75% read no weekly or other non-daily paper . |
| 17 | She was so cold … fixed and frozen never to move again . |
| 18 | He has made himself so by resolving never to make the same mistake twice . |
| 19 | ‘ You are supposed never to use karate and if you do it 's only in circumstances where you 've exhausted every other option . |
| 20 | Even with his handiwork through me , I thought of the sadness inevitably awaiting the others ; yet I would have to pursue him , for someone who had three times seen murder as a solution to problems could n't be trusted never to try it again . |
| 21 | Oh Charlie shut her up at , at Chris 's mums funeral , when we went to Chris 's mum funeral , she 's erm , she said something or other about , request something or other about , pointing at the I should n't 've been there really because I did n't know her and Charlie said she felt did n't know her and erm she said oh well Rose never spoke about her , or words to that effect , Chris says the reason our mum never spoke about her cos she never showed her face in here anyway , he said when was the last time you see your mum , at that , she shut straight up like that , her face went , she 'd like saying that I should n't 've been there cos I did n't know her , I mean yet , she ai n't set foot in the house for fucking year like , you know she 's a horrible cow , and like when we went in the church , when we went in the crematorium er you had , she had a nice , big one up on the hill is it Arnold 's ? |
| 22 | These aptly named whirligig beetles spin round continually , creating a dizzy display which confuses potential predators , and yet the beetles appear never to collide . |
| 23 | In 1967 Ron Gorchov dreamed up a uniquely curved and hinged frame to support the canvas on which he paints and in all the years since then he has never wavered from its use , though it has appeared in a wide variety of sizes and variations . |
| 24 | It has never wavered and has consistently fought ever since for the adoption of this method . |
| 25 | Take a look at Middlesbrough 's travelling support it has never wavered and it has never let the club down , frequently imposing its vocal superiority at grounds from Goodison to Gigg Lane . |
| 26 | Laing has never felt that being a compassionate employer has been at odds with doing the right thing commercially . |
| 27 | Why Ms Estefan has never felt better |
| 28 | Powell has never felt worse than the year after he won , when he fell on Stearsby . |
| 29 | But it has been a rough 18 months for him and there is still a gauntness about him , even if he does claim he has never felt fitter and that his swing is closer to being ‘ on track ’ than for a long time . |
| 30 | But the law has never felt obliged to follow such rational simplicity if there are good reasons for doing otherwise . |