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Example sentences of "[noun] it never [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I knew the rule well enough , but in that split second it never entered my head .
2	I was very green and , to be honest , when Ricky McFarlane quit St Mirren it never occurred to me that I had a chance of getting the job .
3	The succulent liberties it never had
4	‘ Your place it never threatened .
5	It took the merest instant , but as a process it never ceased to fascinate her .
6	‘ To tell you the truth it never occurred to me until this minute .
7	In business it never hurts to be cautious .
8	in a couple of years it never done a thing and now it 's growing .
9	Scorpius is setting , and the Cross is more or less out of view , though as seen from anywhere south of Sydney or the Cape it never drops below the horizon .
10	J. H. Plumb has raised the interesting question ‘ Why did history develop in Europe , whereas in China it never extracted itself from the iron grip of the past in the service of the present ? ’
11	This , Mwangaza ( ‘ Light ’ ) , was later to become the first Swahili daily , but although it cost only three cents it never achieved sales higher than about 1,400 .
12	Even in purely political terms it never seems to have occurred to Polybius and Posidonius that the command of a foreign language meant power to the Romans .
13	In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left .
14	But love has significance it never goes out of style . ’
15	whatever you want , whatever you want to do , whatever you suggest to your councillor it never gets anywhere , it never gets anywhere
16	So the second subject melody in the first movement is faster than usual , but with easy rubato it never sounds rushed ; songful rather .
17	Of course it never happened , but he definitely wanted to do it .
18	It 's a euphemism for dusting , but of course it never works out like that .
19	When we investigate experimentally the " stuff of the world it never tells lies , it never changes the rules in the course of play .
20	For some reason it never occurred to me to lie or make any effort at all to save my invaluable little tin box .
21	I always regret that as a youth it never occurred to me to ask why they chose Easingwold and how they knew of a vacancy for someone who could combine the saddlery trade with being the landlord of the Jolly Farmers pub .
22	told the police it never took place .
23	told the police it never took place .
24	because I said it was erm Simon 's , and then I did n't know really where they lived and erm , I know they moved out , out of next door to Lesley 's , and in the end it never got done that , that more to the point but erm I ca n't do that up until I 've done that can I ?
25	But as a Muslim city it never aspired to , nor ever achieved , anything like the turbulent freedom of the Italian city republics , at least till much later .
26	Retching , vomiting and desperately trying to rub its face clean , the animal learns a lesson it never forgets .
27	After that year it never neared the peak of 470,000 , which occurred in 1913 .
28	While they lived in la Sologne it never occurred to either of them that it was even possible for people like themselves to study music and become professional musicians .
29	At some maxima Mira can reach the second magnitude , and in 1779 it is said to have risen to 1.7 , much brighter than Polaris , while in 1969,1977 and 1987 I estimated it as 2.3 at its peak , though on other occasions it never exceeds magnitude 4 .
30	Moldan , whose name was on the StB register although he had not been an agent , admitted to meeting with StB agents but declared that " in the conditions in Czechoslovakia at that time it never crossed by mind that I could refuse " .