Example sentences of "and [be] never [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was in her element with doctors , hospitals , osteopaths , chiropractors , acupuncture ( health by a thousand pricks ) and was never able to do very much because ( she said ) of her ‘ small bones ’ . |
| 2 | Yet Laura failed to conquer fully her fear of water or enclosed places and was never able to use underground trains . |
| 3 | Robert had earlier won the 250cc race but in the superbike he was forced to make up ground after a bad start and was never able to get to grips with the leader . |
| 4 | Old Eugene had never worked in his life due to what he said was a bad heart , but he never lacked in daring and was never afraid to take a gamble . |
| 5 | The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 . |