Example sentences of "[is] [conj] [pron] never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A constant problem with promoting all four gardens is that we never have enough leaflets to supply all the outlets that request them . |
| 2 | The thing about selection is that we never vote . |
| 3 | Anyone familiar with five- and six-year-olds would be puzzled to learn that they do not ask questions when they do not understand something : if five-year-olds have a failing it is that they never stop asking questions ! |
| 4 | They also make mistakes , but part of the game is that they never apologise . |
| 5 | The difficulty with all these criticisms is that they never specified exactly what was the ‘ correct ’ style for Nonconformist chapels . |
| 6 | An important point to remember about EOG recordings made using EEG amplifiers is that they never give direct information about the direction of gaze — only changes in direction — and the rate at which the galvanometer pens return to the midline of the paper chart is determined by the time constant setting . |
| 7 | All I know is that she never said so , and they 'd have had precious little opportunity , one or other of them being on call for two out of any three nights . ’ |
| 8 | While Diana has been billed as the matchmaker in this royal romance , the truth is that she never noticed the romantic spark between her brother-in-law and one of her best friends . |
| 9 | Even though she has become Princess of Wales , the price Diana will probably pay is that she never gets to wear a crown . |
| 10 | The difference is that she never felt guilty about it , whereas I , who have devoured baby and child books since my first pregnancy test was positive , do . |
| 11 | The worst of it all to me is that I never guessed anything . |
| 12 | The funny thing is that I never expected to be an artist . |
| 13 | The really interesting thing — really staggering — is that you never came close to noticing . ’ |
| 14 | Another attractive feature of an actuary 's work is that you never stop learning — both on your own account and from your colleagues . |
| 15 | Tomorrow 's World presenter Maggie , 36 , said : ‘ One thing we have learned from alcoholism is that you never know what 's going to happen . ’ |
| 16 | The trouble with trying to fool policemen is that you never know how much they know , which is always more than they admit . |
| 17 | As Colonel Gordon Wilkinson puts it : ‘ The big thing about services catering is that you never know what 's going to happen next . |
| 18 | And the trouble with ‘ sometimes ’ is that you never know when to expect it . |
| 19 | I 've only been in Dick 's flat once and the most interesting thing I 've gleaned about him is that he never uses washing-up liquid and he has a rather interesting pile of yellowing press cuttings sitting on a shelf . |
| 20 | ‘ The trouble with him , ’ said Pooley , ‘ is that he never seems to keep his mind on anything . |
| 21 | I noted earlier that Marx recognised the social and political ‘ materiality ’ of lines of demarcation other than those of property holding in the ‘ Eighteenth Brumaire ’ : nonetheless what is striking in this passage is that he never settled accounts with the general theory which denied such factors any pertinence in the long run . |
| 22 | He enjoys music his one regret is that he never learned to play a musical instrument and is chairman of the newly-established music society which is putting on a season of classical concerts in the throne room at Bishop Auckland Castle . |
| 23 | ‘ I tell you , I do n't know who he is and I never saw him . ’ |
| 24 | I du n no what her job is cos she never told me . |
| 25 | It 's because they never miss a food or drink trick . |
| 26 | It 's because I never had no shoes till I was three . |
| 27 | It 's because I never see anyone else . |
| 28 | To everyone 's relief , including his mother 's though she never said so , Marion 's year-old Alan was taken off by his fostermother to be reared at her father 's home in Killundine . |