Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [pers pn] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | Horowitz , tall and thin in the trench coat he still wore , and carrying the case he never let out of his sight , stared at both men . |
| 2 | It 's just possible Mr Deputy Speaker , it 's just possible I may not be selected for all kinds of reasons but if I was selected it might at least give the people of that lovely part of the world the chance of having the referendum they never had over Maastricht because of the shameful way in which the Labour party was not willing to allow the people to have their say on that vital issue . |
| 3 | Timid , fastidious and conservative in his dress , he was given to silences of legendary proportions and to a strict working routine more befitting the clerk he never became than the artist he was . |
| 4 | About three things they said that was in the parcel we never had . |
| 5 | I was so deep in the story I never noticed . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I see you as a sister for my daughter — the sister she never had . |
| 7 | There was the other side , the reality , the disciplines , the demands , the side I never seemed good enough at . |
| 8 | Almost desperately she sought solace in her own private ‘ pictures ’ , the programme she never tired of , which she had projected on to her drowsy mind countless times as she lay in bed before dropping off to sleep , or half-awake on Sunday mornings . |
| 9 | The quintessential House of Commons role of leader of the opposition he never mastered . |
| 10 | I kept my eyes open over the next few days and although I saw her sitting in the window she never appeared outside . |
| 11 | Of the last decision he says : ‘ Most of the winter I never see daylight . |
| 12 | ‘ During the campaign I never watched telly or saw my family and I never really knew what was going on in the election , ’ said his brother Andrew , 26 . |
| 13 | He wants the two actors to invent the scene we never see . |
| 14 | At the moment I never feel I 'm working hard enough . |
| 15 | He always took Celia flowers and sometimes books or magazines , but he had come to the conclusion she never read them . |
| 16 | ‘ To tell you the truth it never occurred to me until this minute . |
| 17 | But although I played lead for a long time in the group I never cite lead players like Clapton or Beck . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ They said the programme was going to go out all over the worldbut we never saw it — we have n't got a TV , you see . |
| 20 | The water he never actually hit . |
| 21 | The rest of the day we never saw him . |
| 22 | This is the pencil he never had — the pencil he longed for . |
| 23 | I mean I mean during the week she never , she 's going to get to the stage except that Chris is taking Amy to ballet , she wo n't see Neighbours at all . |
| 24 | Leeds have now dropped to 40-1 outsiders to retain the title and manager Howard Wilkinson admitted morosely : ‘ At the start of the season I never imagined we would be in a situation like this going into Christmas . |
| 25 | As Julian & co limber up for the long haul , you get the feeling they never really hated rock as the survivors of post-punk seemed to . |
| 26 | She hesitated , said shyly , ‘ That is something I have learned , I suppose — that in the past I never stopped to think before I spoke or acted … though , goodness knows , you both told me to , often and often . ’ |
| 27 | In the air he never mastered the throttle setting , so that he either fell behind of pulled ahead . |
| 28 | She 's like a daughter , the daughter I never had , and I lie awake at nights thinking what 's going to happen to her when I 'm gone , because men being what they are , they 'll take her on because of the money . |
| 29 | As he pulled on the oars — he could not bear simply to sit and wait for the bell to ring — John was again the boy who had set out to be the man he never became . |
| 30 | Externally conformist and controlled , her journal functions as the confidant she never had : ‘ My head feels empty and I am nothing particular . |