Example sentences of "never [vb past] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said read the bloody words then and she said oh I never read the words she said I looks at the pictures . |
| 2 | ‘ Jacqui , I 'm afraid I never got the photos to him . ’ |
| 3 | They never checked the cottages . ’ |
| 4 | And King Bucar and the other Kings were so greatly dismayed that they never checked the reins till they had ridden into the sea ; and the company of the Cid rode after them , smiting and slaying and giving them no respite ; and they smote down so many that it was marvellous , for the Moors did not turn their heads to defend themselves . |
| 5 | His career never produced the rewards his talent merited , he frequently turned to drink as a way of escaping football 's built-in disappointments , ounce by ounce the slim frame turned to flab , and in the end Baxter turned ‘ 60s social mobility on its head , grabbing failure from the jaws of success . |
| 6 | He had too many disputes on his hands which never produced the results that he desired . |
| 7 | At the time when both troupes were staying together at the English Girls ' Club in Paris , although the Johns were convinced there was a rule that they should not mix , it never entered the others ' heads . |
| 8 | I thought she was talking about you , I mean she never mentioned no names when she came rushing up to the top just the same , do n't know what 's the matter with Wynne today , the edge there Lynda . |
| 9 | In the event , few attempts at car restraint were made because it was assumed that the money would be found for reconstruction , but in the crisis-ridden post-1960s British economy , available funds never approached the levels needed for a widespread application of environmental area principles . |
| 10 | In any event , parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children . |
| 11 | Worse , he told her that naturally he never used the lifts because if one were faulty he could be stuck a long time with no one to free him . |
| 12 | She never used the bolts when John was out . |
| 13 | Her grandmother never used the words white and black to describe skin colour . |
| 14 | Dyson never caught the names of any of the others , or found out what they did , apart from drinking the company 's gin with a reassuring deftness . |
| 15 | Gould never found the nests of the lyre-birds . |
| 16 | There was however one inmate of the Cages who never caused the Men trouble — perhaps because he was not an eagle at all — and that was Woil , a buzzard whose cage was just beyond Slorne 's . |
| 17 | Britain never adopted the terms of the Convention because the Government Actuary considered that it threatened to usurp the husband 's responsibility to provide for his family and because it would have resulted in the payment of higher National Health Insurance ( NHI ) contributions . |
| 18 | Progressives and reformers never captured the movies ; they merely influenced them in a particular direction , a direction that the producers would appear to be following closely whereas in fact they were really using it for their own ends . |
| 19 | The first meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers was held on 2 January 1818 with eight founder members present , but it made slow progress until in 1820 Telford , who never joined the Smeatonians , agreed to become the first president . |
| 20 | Even mention of ‘ cut and sew ’ never evoked the groans I so often hear in the UK , as most of the knitters realise , as I do , the value of this technique . |
| 21 | She never forgot the names of her dead . |
| 22 | He never misled the fans , he always maintained that good players would sometimes be sold , in order to balance the books , too improve the ground or to raise money to ‘ balance ’ the squad . |
| 23 | ‘ We never claimed the drawings had been modelled on the Maxwells . |
| 24 | Manzoni was a modest man and never enjoyed the standards of living which his fame would have allowed — the bedroom has a simple iron bed , the fireplace is small , the armchairs ordinary . |
| 25 | There can be no significant relation between a hypothesis in our physics and a superficially similar idea in a tradition which never developed the procedures of mathematization and controlled experiment . |
| 26 | The medical profession is God , yet in my family , the doctors never delivered the goods . |
| 27 | The relatives never delivered the cards themselves , but would choose a group of friends or neighbours . |
| 28 | He quite enjoyed the process although he never fancied the women concerned . |
| 29 | These never reached the children until they went home , either , but the wrappings were torn and removed , and the eggs closely inspected . |
| 30 | But she never disobeyed the rules by spending a night , illicitly , out of college . |