Example sentences of "[noun] but [pron] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | In September , O'Brien called a meeting in an attempt to establish a Derry branch of the association but it never got off the ground ; indeed even at the height of the civil rights movement NICRA had branches in north and south County Derry but in the city itself the principal civil rights organisation was the DCAC , which although affiliated to NICRA , was completely autonomous . |
| 2 | Ageing skin , a problem recognised for centuries but one never properly understood , until today . |
| 3 | Yeah as I say , that unit trust thing I was I know it 's not the safest investment but it never was the safest investment . |
| 4 | ‘ I asked her to come and get me out of foster homes but she never did . |
| 5 | Years ago he had made a doll 's house for her ; he had made it beautifully with proper wallpaper in the rooms and a tiny lavatory but he never got around to making the roof or putting hinges on the back . |
| 6 | I once said to him , Mother 's in the lavatory but she never locks the door . ’ |
| 7 | I was interested in drawing but I never saw it as part of a potential career . |
| 8 | Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying . |
| 9 | Of this period Glass says ; ‘ I loved Charlie Parker and Bud Powell but it never occurred to me to play their music . |
| 10 | ‘ I loved Charlie Parker and Bud Powell but it never occurred to me to play their music . |
| 11 | We thanked Peckle but he never stirred a hair . |
| 12 | I 'll cook curry or lasagne but I never knew , I never knew the recipes I just sort of stuff and think that goes together well |
| 13 | I suppose he must have had more orthodox items in his wardrobe but I never saw them . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a wild-goose chase but you never know , ’ I said hopefully . |
| 15 | Great wicker baskets were trundled in and out of their home but she never complained nor spoke of regretting the end of her dancing life . |
| 16 | CATHERINE No , I would like to have been , I always wanted to have a child but I never did . |
| 17 | Well they were meant to go in a chicken but it never happened . |
| 18 | In the next 20 years the NHS did not escape criticism from academic Fabians but it never reached the volume and intensity of the criticism which , for example , social security and income maintenance attracted as they appeared to retreat further and further away from the principles of the Beveridge Report . |
| 19 | I am excited and absorbed in my purpose to return to the inn but I never find my way there again . |
| 20 | I ca n't believe I actually bought Benson but they never said that |
| 21 | And what , he asks , will happen to the child who does not , bureaucratically speaking , have special educational needs but who never manages to get past Level 2 in any given attainment target ? |
| 22 | Tt erm and explore the salary a bit more because again I said it 's basic at thirty five and there 's a few other bits and pieces but you never really got to grips with what those other bits and pieces are , yeah there 's performance related pay , location allowances , a company car , there 's BUPA , all those bits and bobs need to be identified . |
| 23 | I could have got a nine to five job but I never wanted one . |
| 24 | It was supposed to look like they were wearing epaulettes but it never did . |
| 25 | ‘ There was nice stuff written during that era but it never saw the light of day . |
| 26 | ‘ Angy and I had supper together on the Monday evening but she never said that girl had been here , or that Rick was corning to see her . ’ |
| 27 | And er he just , he said he was coming to erm my Uncle Les ' funeral but he never turned up . |
| 28 | Well I mean , they might sell it down the shop but I never heard of it . |
| 29 | Now in the same way over the four years when you are in overall control of the Council you suggested that Conservative money , the of council tax to pay for public transport but you never spent all the money on public transport , instead of which you on as you admitted which will be used in other directions but your last budget |
| 30 | His real name is Bruce but he never answers to it . ’ |