Example sentences of "[noun] never [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For although his daughter Maire never became a top ballet star she is a member of a highly successful family band . |
| 2 | The Blushing Groom colt never had a moment 's worry on the soft ground , sitting in fifth position until straightening for home and then powering away from his rivals inside the two-furlong marker . |
| 3 | Frankie never made the mistake of approaching him without invitation . |
| 4 | Jamila never closed the door , so Changez and I drank and looked through at our Jamila 's concentrating-so-hard profile , head bowed , as she read and sang and wrote in old school exercise books . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The hatch on Lord Jim was always locked , but Richard never forgot the key . |
| 7 | Despite repeated rape and electric shock , Paulina never mentioned the name of her lover , who married her after she was released , though he had taken up with another woman . |
| 8 | But his eyes never left the four men before him . |
| 9 | He let the words sink , and he wrote sharply , and his eyes never left the boy . |
| 10 | Her hand was in Mansel 's , and their two hands lay in her lap : her beautiful head was bowed , and her eyes never left the eyes of the man she loved . |
| 11 | Ben 's eyes never left the teacher 's face . |
| 12 | But Izzie 's black eyes never left the scarred , distant hillsides . |
| 13 | ‘ Ca n't place her , ’ said Carol , but the piggy eyes never left the joint . |
| 14 | Coffee was on the go there as well but I noticed that the Sheikha never drank a drop . |
| 15 | The eldest Miss Fricker never forgot the arrival of the travel-weary student whose brilliant reputation had gone so powerfully before him . |
| 16 | John Bond 's side never got a look in as Quakers took command in the first half hour . |
| 17 | The movie flopped and Laughton never got the chance to direct again , but Hunter remains the greatest David Lynch movie Lynch never made . |
| 18 | Wright never deserved the four goals he got — he never did anything to get the ball but let it come to him and losing out a few times in the process when the defender took the ball away . |
| 19 | David never missed a training session , seminar or meeting , he always managed to fit everything into his busy schedule . |
| 20 | Bomber Command never overcame the problem of the weather , right to the bitter end , and right to the end the Germans fought back . |
| 21 | Its circulation never approached the 800,000 target and was about 112,000 when , after little more than six months , the estate agent and local radio entrepreneur , Owen Oyston , who sought to rescue it , closed it down . |
| 22 | She wanted to run her fingers through his hair , wanted to nuzzle her nose and chin into his neck , wanted to know the texture of his cheek and jaw , wanted to kiss him so that her lips never forgot the shape of his . |
| 23 | However , even after several years , his paces never regained the natural , easy , long-stepping flow they had had as a paddocked youngster ; and his personality could be kindly described as awkward , and certainly was n't to be trusted . |
| 24 | In the event , few attempts at car restraint were made because it was assumed that the money would be found for reconstruction , but in the crisis-ridden post-1960s British economy , available funds never approached the levels needed for a widespread application of environmental area principles . |
| 25 | My boss never said a word . |
| 26 | My boss never said a word to me . |
| 27 | His parents never exchanged a cross word . |
| 28 | In any event , parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children . |
| 29 | England never had a chance ; Amiss , Randall and Wood scored a few , but in the end they fell 50 short . |
| 30 | It is quite certain that the poets Shakespeare , Keats , Byron and Wordsworth never saw a Hybrid Tea rose . |