Example sentences of "[vb base] never [vb pp] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 've never worked in diplomacy , but I 've worked in other affairs . |
| 2 | ‘ This is probably my most important game to date , certainly I have never played in front of the kind of crowd that is expected , and I have never played at Twickenham , though I have heard about the swirling wind that can make life uncomfortable for kickers . |
| 3 | Eleanor , Aveling and Liebknecht wrote to another , We have never seen in Europe such wanton interference on the part of the police with the liberty of the subject as we saw today in a country proverbially known as ‘ the land of the free ’ . |
| 4 | This probably explains why little children favour tall animals , that they have never seen in reality , to animals that slither and scuffle across the ground . |
| 5 | To me the small group of birds on the sand-spit looked just like little terns , but it is a bird I have never seen in Shetland , so I am not familiar with it . |
| 6 | We have never failed in devotion . |
| 7 | ‘ Rebellions have never succeeded in Ireland , ’ Father Poole said , ‘ and yet they are always attempted . |
| 8 | Rebellions have never succeeded in Ireland ; always they have ended in butchery and defeat . |
| 9 | Coalitions have never worked in India , which is why the country has always returned to the comforting but damaging embrace of Congress and the Nehru-Gandhi family . |
| 10 | A downturn of the lips : ‘ Glynn women have never figured in wills ; it has always been assumed that the men would look after them along with their other properties . ’ |