Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] never be " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked across the open grave at Sarah , her stepdaughter , and it saddened her even more that the gulf between them had never been bridged . |
| 2 | It would mean telling her everything — and telling the full truth about himself had never been easy . |
| 3 | Another source of future friction lies in the failure of the congress to elevate Mr Pozsgay above other presidium members , some of whom had never been elected to a top party position . |
| 4 | Most of them had never been before and was scared , she got just a little bit of water in her mouth and she thought she was drowning but instead of saying drowning she said to me , ‘ I drownded ’ . |
| 5 | That it did not do so may in part be due to the late H.H. Mayberry , from Marshall County , Tennessee , who in the early 1880s paid a stranger from Nova Scotia $36 ( about $800 in today 's money ) for four of the goats on the strength of their ‘ strange fits or fainting spells , the like of which had never been seen before ’ . |
| 6 | The question of fundamental importance which arises is whether the court should entertain the proposition that an Act of Parliament can so be assailed in the courts that matters should proceed as though the Act or some part of it had never been passed . |
| 7 | A mind like hers had never been trained to encompass a vast concept or to accommodate any larger vision than what she could see with half-closed eyes . |
| 8 | The sort of ‘ gallivanting about ’ that he seemed always to associate with her had never been a part of her life at all . |
| 9 | She drew me close and comforted me as I mourned my child and the bond between us had never been stronger . |