Example sentences of "never a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as to how she behaved to your mother you 'd never believe it — cigarettes , mess , gin in the teacups , and never a please or thank-you . |
| 2 | In such a world , individuality is never a prized characteristic , and an attempt in the early 1980s to remove the one remaining individualizing feature — the shoulder numeral or ‘ collar number ’ — was correctly rejected by civilians as a structural move towards an even greater anonymity . |
| 3 | More Melina Mercouri , hi , knees , glad you could make it , check food , what the hell that 's never a problem . |
| 4 | If one trespasses beyond the limits , he quietly corrects the fault in a plea , never a paroxysm . |
| 5 | The language apart , Leonard also seems to have been drawn towards the scandal-provoking propensities of the social catalysts as well as their revolutionary emphases ; drawn towards them , at times suggesting some involvement with them , but always as an outsider to their cause ; never a fully committed revolutionary himself . |
| 6 | He was never a man to be deprived of the sun and the soft wind in his face . |
| 7 | JOHN PRESCOTT did not go to university , was never a television presenter , and finds it exceedingly difficult to complete a grammatically correct sentence . |
| 8 | He said there was never a day when he did not believe they would survive . |
| 9 | Never a star perhaps but stars , on the boards , come and go . |
| 10 | Never a shout . |
| 11 | ‘ He was never a progressive musician , ’ recalls pianist Gerry Moore , who in contrast always was , ‘ but he had the most beautiful tone . |
| 12 | I may sing like Marcel Marceau , but it was never a style . |
| 13 | Although never a public figure , and always shunning the limelight , he was a man of great influence , an efficient administrator , a first-class draftsman and an eloquent communicator . |
| 14 | In our case , it was never a simple matter of trust , once having been won , being taken for granted , as the textbooks suggest . |
| 15 | There was never a big overnight change . |
| 16 | Mrs Thatcher 's position was also secure because the Cabinet ‘ Wets ’ were never a coherent group ; the term mistakenly unified diverse critics . |
| 17 | What was attractive about the American consortium approach — and I must emphasise that it was never a take-over bid , Sikorsky 's stake is only eight per cent — was firstly , we had worked with Sikorsky on and off for forty years . |
| 18 | There was never a time in Sir Hector Laing 's life when it ever occurred to him to work for any other company than the family business , originally called McVitie $ Price and now known as United Biscuits . |
| 19 | There was never a hint of a blow . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'd think he 'd come for the Christmas or even write but never a word , no thought for anybody except himself , ’ and it cast a deep shadow when they tried to imagine what kind of space enclosed Luke in England during the same hour , but they were n't able to imagine it . |
| 21 | Yet threading the Turbo R through traffic is never a problem . |
| 22 | The original XR 's gearbox was never a strong point . |
| 23 | Certain teams did become very loosely identified with Catholic or Protestant support in Liverpool and Manchester , but this was never a prominent feature of English football or a significant source of violence . |
| 24 | ‘ Never a word . ’ |
| 25 | There was , indeed , never a day , except when he was away on short holidays , during which he did not spend some time in her company , from the time of their first association in 1919 until her death in 1951 . |
| 26 | There is never a moment 's dullness in The Allegory of Love . |
| 27 | It was never a formal club with minutes , or apologies for absence , or any ‘ business ’ or recognizable membership . |
| 28 | He threw his dressing gown casually on the chair and — with never a glance at Arty — jumped between the sheets , picked up the newspaper from the floor beside the bed , opened it out and peered over the top , his ears tuned to the conversation . |
| 29 | ‘ Mission is never a destruction but rather a taking up and building afresh . ’ |
| 30 | But never a great organizer , he was bad at deputizing authority to others . |