Example sentences of "[noun] i [verb] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few examples will give something of the flavour of the times : Even sober-minded mathematical modellers fell under the spell , as witness the mathematician J. S. Griffith who had helped Watson and Crick solve DNA back in the early 1950s , writing jointly with one of the doyens of biochemistry , Henry Mahler , and offering what they called , for reasons I have never quite understood , a ‘ DNA ticketing theory of memory ’ . |
| 2 | Give me a line-up of blokes I 've never met before , and I 'll pick out the big hitter for you . ’ |
| 3 | You know the thing is I feel that when I was tried to get the theatre board and I have contacted various people on the board I have never been listened to . |
| 4 | you know they sit there going what is a normal case , this is a normal case I 've never seen anything else before . |
| 5 | In any case I have never , during more than fifty years of travel , anticipated falling ill . |
| 6 | That 's a division I 'd never even heard of before . |
| 7 | M. I 've never really thought of M objectively before , as another person . |
| 8 | On the plus side was the fact that the Foreign Office and the years spent in Cabinet were a good apprenticeship , while in addition I had never been afraid of taking decisions . |
| 9 | Then I spotted them — superb orange orchids of a kind I had never seen in Danu . |
| 10 | I told her to forget this doctor nonsense and talk more reasonably about the oilman and his petrodollars and what he had her do In the dying moments she made a noise I 'd never heard her make before , a rhythmical whimpering of abandonment or entreaty , a lost sound . |
| 11 | One article in particular , from a writer I 've never heard of before , stated that the course was dull and boring and that there was no great degree of difficulty . |
| 12 | And of course I 've never been introduced to you properly . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Of course I 've never been able to cook . |
| 14 | Then , with a blitheness I had never associated with Pike , he stepped two paces back into the path of the oncoming truck . |
| 15 | In fact this particular chassis I 've never had er never done any work on . |
| 16 | Certainly in my own experience I have never come across armed smugglers , although on at least one occasion I was threatened with a knife when attempting to stop a seaman leaving a ship , and once I was attached by a ship 's steward when attempting to relieve him of a briefcase full of uncustomed goods . |
| 17 | In fact there 's several chapters dedicated to software , particularly educational software and Toni Mitchell is obviously passionate about her subject … ‘ in 20 years of teaching I have never seen any teaching tool or method that captures the imagination and excites the enthusiasm and interest of the children as much as quality computer software . ’ |
| 18 | The mix of own compositions and covers worked well , bringing to my attention songs I 'd never heard before from the likes of Dick Gaughan and Steve Earle . |
| 19 | It 's the other kind of thinking I 've never been able to muster , the long-term stuff , ‘ Never confuse strategy with tactics , ’ one of my tutors advised me , but I ca n't even remember what the words mean . |
| 20 | They stick me in some kind of waiting-room Upstairs , in a wing of the complex I 've never seen before . |
| 21 | It is a river I know well , but a stretch I have never fished before , and when I see it I wonder why . |
| 22 | All those long nights when I had sat in the canteen I had never realized what was happening just a few yards away on the Tartan track . |
| 23 | The architecture I sought never materialised in any of my compositions . |
| 24 | The architecture I sought never materialised in any of my compositions . |
| 25 | In four years of road testing I have never seen two such similar sets of statistics . |
| 26 | We always used to push a long wire in to see how er every stack used to heat a little but er er touchwood I 've never er never saw a stack heat that badly . |
| 27 | No , only a bloke I 've never seen one had one . |
| 28 | Nothing that I later ate in a restaurant was as good as our dinner , the finale being a ‘ tender coconut ’ pudding , a dish I had never eaten anywhere in the tropics . |
| 29 | A beautiful young girl I 've never seen before . |
| 30 | A more concrete , realistic girl I 've never met . |