Example sentences of "never [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob Fitzsimmons , known as ‘ Fitz ’ in boxing circles , was the only English world heavyweight champion , though he never fought in England . |
| 2 | He never fought in his life . |
| 3 | That never arose in Gillick 's case , the nearest approach to it being the proposition , accepted by all parties , that the court had power to override any minor 's consent ( not refusal ) to accept treatment . |
| 4 | The losers , let us remind ourselves , are the old , the sick , the jobless , the low paid , the homeless and badly housed , the ill-educated , the deprived , the discriminated-against — that third of our society that never shared in the maldistributed prosperity of the Thatcher years , and will at best gain little , at worst lose further , in John Major 's ‘ classless ’ Britain . |
| 5 | ‘ The point is that even if the bar never shuts in the house it is just as important to keep control of your drinking , ’ said the agency 's Director of Programme Development , Linda Barclay . |
| 6 | It even staged the most expensive gimmick of all , building the House for Lovers in a park in the city , a Mackintosh design never realised in his own lifetime . |
| 7 | Old Eugene had never worked in his life due to what he said was a bad heart , but he never lacked in daring and was never afraid to take a gamble . |
| 8 | He had never joined in the masturbation rites at school , either . |
| 9 | " The precise point which was never treated in detail was the degree of imminence of the admittedly forthcoming dissolution of Turkey " . |
| 10 | Therefore , even if some particular sequence is the best possible protein for some particular function , and would be favoured by natural selection if once it arose , it could never arise in the first place merely by chance . |
| 11 | He had experimented in administering the powder to about fifty people over a period of five years ‘ and never failed in the cure ’ , except in some cases of severe or chronic ague , which required the addition of some grains of quinine . |
| 12 | This is not to say that a three E's audit is never undertaken in nationalized industries . |
| 13 | And er I have in there one of the great cyclist , he cycles all over the country , he 's gone from John O' Groats down the other way and across the opposite way , he cycles everywhere , he never goes in car he always cycles everywhere he goes . |
| 14 | Adam 's face was mere inches from her own , his eyes hot with a fury she had never witnessed in him before . |
| 15 | As we have already mentioned , for this reason , shelter sheds and troughs are never placed in the very corners of paddocks or yards . |
| 16 | Soviet aid was never intended in any case to equip the Republic for victory , so much as to enable it to resist until the Spanish war became part of a more general conflict in which Britain and France would join the Soviet Union in fighting European fascism . |
| 17 | And why had she and Dionne never fallen In Love ? |
| 18 | Because she 'd never fallen in love , the head-over-heels , with-all-your-heart kind of love that made a woman 's world centre on one man for the rest of her life . |
| 19 | Instead I 've been thrust into the sort of social whirl I never experienced in Nottingham — or in London , for that matter . ‘ |
| 20 | Unless you drive everywhere at less than 40mph and never sit in traffic jams , the record-breaking 112mpg is as achievable as drying flowers underwater . |
| 21 | Pay attention to the level of lighting and never sit in the shadow . |
| 22 | The me who said she 'd never stay in a hostel again was now on her way to a night shelter . |
| 23 | They would never stay in my bedroom very long , but you can imagine my excitement each lunchtime as I watched them arrive in the garden , enter the house and quack their way up to me , as regular as clockwork . |
| 24 | He never peed in front of other men . |
| 25 | I have never heard in my life such a noise . |
| 26 | A neighbour who heard the bell , a sound she had never heard in all her fifteen years in the street , puzzled over it for half an hour and then went across the road to the school . |
| 27 | But as he did the wind caught at him even more mightily than before ; there was the sense of commotion and movement in the air and out of the darkness behind him came a terrible crack , a heave and a bang and whoosh such as he had never heard in his life . |
| 28 | She said I just went in there and she said I could n't stand any more , she said do you know Joy she said you 're one of the nicest people I know , she said I tell you what I 've never heard in my life two people stab somebody like you 're being stabbed , she says I could n't sit there any more |
| 29 | Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston . |
| 30 | — he takes his Wife and Bairns with him , a Waggon the size of a Squatters Cabin and all such apparatus as will imcumber [ sic ] him not a little — he has never travelled in the Woods , never salted his rump Stakes [ sic ] with Gun Powder and how he will take to it , will be a ‘ sin to Crockett ’ . |