Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] never [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly experience helps children in the formation and shaping of concepts but unguarded free activity is likely to be as unrewarding in the long term as a learning programme which never departs from a prepared text book . |
| 2 | The bearded head gardener who is always tending the apple tree ; the wise old sea-captain who never rushes to judgment ; the character you 're not quite introduced to , but who is giving you a creepy feeling by Chapter Four … pack them off into storage , all of them . |
| 3 | Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost . |
| 4 | A story which never fails to enthral and inspire even those who have heard it previously . |
| 5 | The story that is told is a story which never ends — and which risks losing shape and momentum — because it is a story told of himself by a living author , an author who has yet to end , whose isolate 's imaginative fury lives on to tell another tale , some more of his own story . |
| 6 | This is via Northrop Frye 's now-famous book , the Anatomy of Criticism ( 1957 ) , a work which never mentions The Lord of the Rings , but nevertheless creates a literary place for it with Sibylline accuracy . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's the phone exchange which never works . |
| 8 | America is used to being the big boy who never loses — we punish those who make us look weak ’ |
| 9 | MUCH of the advance publicity that surrounded Hook , Steven Spielberg 's adaptation of J. M. Barrie 's Peter Pan story , concentrated on the ageing directorial wunderkind 's affinity for the subject of a boy who never grows up . |
| 10 | But Fisher , a notoriously slow starter who never seems to get fully into his stride until the summer , clocked up his first win of the year on the re-scheduled Rally of the Lakes last weekend and in the process jumped to the top of the Tarmac table . |
| 11 | The BM 's learning algorithm is a cyclic process which never ends . |
| 12 | The town itself never seems to have developed much industry , but was primarily a place of exchange , from which imported goods were distributed throughout the country and export commodities sent abroad . |
| 13 | She 'll have to get used to going out at night again instead of sitting at home waiting for a husband who never shows up . |
| 14 | We should be three very gay companions , we could make excursions , the sort one never ventures upon alone . |
| 15 | He trails after her , making dramatic declarations of a sort he never has the occasion to make to Felicity . |
| 16 | In business it never hurts to be cautious . |
| 17 | Unless , that is , philosophy can become dissemination : ‘ a work conceived radically is a movement of the same unto the other which never returns to the same ’ . |
| 18 | He was the sort of fielder who never runs but is always there when the ball lands . |
| 19 | One other little point , in Brideshead Revisited , there 's a character who never appears , she 's always spoken about , and thwarted and that is the man who Brideshead marries , and she says , talking to Julia , Julie was no better than she should have been . |
| 20 | The person who never takes risks never achieves anything in his view . |
| 21 | Examples of this may be : the agoraphobic person who never goes out because they believe they will collapse and die of a heart attack ; the lift phobic who believes they may become trapped in the lift and suffocate to death ; a person who avoids meeting others because , if a disagreement starts , they believe they will lose their temper and hit people ; and last , a person may obsessively check the locks on doors and windows , believing that somebody is bound to break into the house if they fail to make these checks . |
| 22 | My hon. Friend may be that perfect example of a person who never has |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Rather than an archaeologist engaged in reconstitution of broken pictures , the enquirer is like the secretary to a historiographical commission which never meets , and which evolves its consensus through bilateral talks with an outsider . |
| 25 | With less gifted composers this can result in opera which never becomes worth listening to , because the music never reaches and holds lyrical peaks . |
| 26 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind , ’ she says , ‘ that we have all lived many lives before and that we have an individual life-force which never dies but chooses to come into incarnation at various times . |
| 27 | ‘ There is no doubt at all in my mind that we have all lives many lives before and that we have an individual life-force which never dies . ’ |
| 28 | Their entertainment , as Ross McKibbin has stressed , came from gambling on horse racing , a feature of working-class financial commitment which never appears in the working-class budgets gathered by social investigators . |
| 29 | I have a colleague who never uses games as such . |
| 30 | There was another brief silence , and then Bridges said softly , ‘ A baby who never cries , because he never needs to . ’ |