Example sentences of "never was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( A fourth possibility , others have suggested , is that Gravier never was on the airplane at all , but he sent an aide in his place using his name to deliver a package in which there was a bomb . |
| 2 | Maybe he never was on the same intellectual plane as some of the others , but he still believed in their picture of the world . |
| 3 | Mr Hellyer said , ‘ To tell you the truth , Olly , I never was on the Council . |
| 4 | And he got the pi and then held the pig and I never was at the actual killing but I know they did er Then they cut its throat you see ? |
| 5 | And of course there was no sign of Mr Goodson from the ground-floor flat , but then there never was at the weekend . |
| 6 | No , she never was in the Co-op Women 's Guilds , because he would n't like it . |
| 7 | It is now determined to a degree it never was in the past to put an end to beef intervention being viewed , by the Republic of Ireland in particular , as a market it has a right to supply . |