Example sentences of "of [noun] [conj] never [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | Felix Bloch , 55 , a career diplomat who was suspected of spying but never charged , was dismissed from the State Department on Nov. 5 , for allegedly making " deliberate false statements or misrepresentations to the FBI [ Federal Bureau of Investigation ] " . |
2 | The suburban road , narrow and deserted , seemed to stretch onwards towards a narrow cone of light that never enlarged , never diminished . |
3 | The plucky 14-year-old was determined however to experience the magic of DisneyWorld and never stopped smiling all week . |
4 | A week later you returned to that place of winter and never returned . ’ |
5 | She was no respecter of persons and never thought before she spoke . |
6 | of taxis that never arrived , or did arrive |
7 | ‘ All I do know about the Spanish Civil War is it left a lot of scars that never healed . |
8 | Inside it looked a bit old-fashioned , as if the style had been set by the Festival of Britain and never changed . |
9 | The Formalists ' preoccupation with form derived from their preoccupation with the specificity of literariness and never constituted an end in itself . |
10 | ‘ The strange thing is that he has always been the soundest of horses and never taken a lame step in his life . |
11 | A very great man , who contributed to every area of politics and never avoided making difficult decisions . |
12 | I lay in the bath daydreaming of putters that never missed and that were made of priceless and perfect metals unknown to man , of millions of pounds won on the fairways of the world , and of even more millions made off the course . |