Example sentences of "[noun sg] never [vb past] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 She and her husband never had any children .
2 Worsthorne looks horrified : ‘ My despair never reached those proportions . ’
3 ‘ Actually , as he and my aunt never had any children , I expect to be his heir . ’
4 What counts as reason stands in the dock accused , on the one hand , of being mere appearance ( the emperor never had any clothes syndrome ) and , on the other , of representing vested interests of the academic community and the wider society .
5 The fifth matter of complaint , which goes partly to the intention of the appellants and to the difficulty they found themselves in before the judge was that their solicitor never explained these matters to the judge , that is to say the technical nature of the breach , the details of the two charges that had been made , and the advice that their solicitor himself had given to the appellants when they came to consult him .
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