Example sentences of "never [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Percy took her hand , saying , ‘ Definitely my art is diffused , but I have never stooped so low as to even touch a guitar . ’ |
| 2 | Attitudes toward active participation in the war opened deep fissures in the movement which , at the extreme , were never healed . |
| 3 | Later in the night she would discover the scars , the knife wound across his shoulder-blades where he 'd been slashed in a Belfast bar , and the bullet wound above his right knee that had never healed properly , a legacy from when he was on border patrol and one of his own men had panicked and opened fire on him . |
| 4 | ‘ All I do know about the Spanish Civil War is it left a lot of scars that never healed . |
| 5 | He was sometimes difficult , often distrustful and the scars of a thousand press knives have never healed . |
| 6 | ‘ I played soccer all the way through school and never entertained the thought of rugby until a couple of friends took me down to Preston Grasshoppers . |
| 7 | Of course if you really want to take the hassle out of membership payment and renewal , the most convenient method is by DIRECT DEBIT — your membership is guaranteed never to lapse — ask at Information for details . |
| 8 | O Sister , Sister ! if ever you marry , beware of a sullen , silent Sot , one that 's always musing , but never thinks : — There 's some Diversion in a talking Blockhead : and since a Woman must wear Chains , I wou 'd have the Pleasure of hearing 'em rattle a little . |
| 9 | No matter how much of a slavey she might really be , a chambermaid never thinks of herself as a maid . |
| 10 | Would the average person , who never thinks about such things and is unfit and unsteady , have survived ? |
| 11 | She never thinks , of herself . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He never thinks of himself these days . |
| 13 | I would have thought it was obvious to anyone that he never thinks further than the pleasures of the next few minutes . |
| 14 | A man never thinks , when he undertakes one journey , that he may not return from it to contemplate another . |
| 15 | no never thinks she 'll thought any thing like that , well you could of bought one could n't you out of that |
| 16 | It was a programme that I was never to perform — until tonight . |
| 17 | It is true that some nurses who observe poor standards in ward management or patient care will resolve never to perform so badly . |
| 18 | As a result many would-be house purchasers never qualified for a loan . |
| 19 | The fact is that Brendan himself never fought an election here , ’ said one strategist , through taut lips . |
| 20 | Burke never fought again , becoming a stage actor advertising his magnificent physique , but excessive drinking , long fasts and many women took their toll and he died penniless of tuberculosis in a lane off Waterloo Road in 1845 . |
| 21 | He never committed an army to the field without being sure that he could bring overwhelming force to bear and never fought a battle without being sure he could win it . |
| 22 | In his whole life Henry II never fought a battle ; not did Philip until 1214 and although that battle , at Bouvines , turned out to be the victory which crowned his career he did his best to avoid it . |
| 23 | Philip 's reluctance to risk battle helps to explain why even so famous a soldier as Richard never fought a battle in Europe , with the possible exception of his " battle " against Vulgrin of Angoulême 's mercenaries in 1176 — but that was probably a slaughter rather than a battle . |
| 24 | We never fought when we were engaged , and I thought we 'd just get married and have our own little home , I thought the bills would get paid and we 'd be closer than we were before . |
| 25 | But he never fought Dadda . |
| 26 | He said , but he never fought the election , well now I know he did , that 's a mistake cos he did . |
| 27 | Bob Fitzsimmons , known as ‘ Fitz ’ in boxing circles , was the only English world heavyweight champion , though he never fought in England . |
| 28 | This meant that he never fought them on his own terms , always theirs , and it blinded him to the realisation that when all else failed , when all the appeals for ‘ fair play ’ fell on stony ground , that he could have utilised his mass following of workers to shake the ground beneath the Empire . |
| 29 | He never fought in his life . |
| 30 | If he was disappointed that his dead wife had not borne him a son to carry on the tradition , he had never remarried ; there was Dinah , who was ample reward , investment for the future . |