Example sentences of "[noun sg] never " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the defendant had never been told he was being entrusted with secrets , there was no express covenant covering business secrets and the defendant never knew that he must not talk about his work outside his employment . |
| 2 | Not a muscle of Nan 's face moved , her stroke never faltered as she brushed and watched the flakes fall down on the newspaper she had spread beneath . |
| 3 | Mr Healey — the best leader Labour never had , and a man of such substance as the party no longer possesses — was regarding , from under shaggy eyebrows , the large and rollicking volume of his autobiography , just published , which lay on the table between us in his hotel suite . |
| 4 | My labour never flags . |
| 5 | Florence Ames wanted them to meet , as they had always met so regularly , sharing a common isolation never expressed . |
| 6 | Throughout his life Nizan never quite succeeded in reconciling the division between a public image of ideological certainty and a private image of recurring angst and self-doubt . |
| 7 | Nizan never quite managed to come to terms with the childhood traumas originating in a family divided through crisis and non-communication . |
| 8 | The Blushing Groom colt never had a moment 's worry on the soft ground , sitting in fifth position until straightening for home and then powering away from his rivals inside the two-furlong marker . |
| 9 | This capability never excludes either a sign or a speech coding and with increasing attention results are pointing to a great division in the effects , with deaf people showing greater use of sign-based coding when responses are made in sign . |
| 10 | Although the album never transcends the cultural and personal , it 's really not meant to . |
| 11 | The fighting never stopped from the time I got to Los Angeles , but no one gained ground . |
| 12 | It would be good practice never to accept a referral without the knowledge and consent of the client , but issues of risk and protection with vulnerable elderly people sometimes lead to a decision to override that principle . |
| 13 | It was my practice never to record anything , especially conversations , after three days … it is surprising how efficient one 's memory can become with practice . ’ |
| 14 | I 'm not sure , a boxer never returns , a tennis player never comes back , Bjorn Borg did n't . |
| 15 | The idea of breaking into the Colonel 's den never occurred to me — it was just too plain terrifying . |
| 16 | Bob Roberts himself is a monster never quite accessible to the cameras or us , vilifiable only by off-the-cuff remarks ( ‘ Do n't take crack , kids … it 's a ghetto drug ’ ) , and opposed only by Bugs Raplin ( Esposito ) , a wired outsider-hack linking him to every scandal of the '80s in a string of fact-filled rants . |
| 17 | Jamila never closed the door , so Changez and I drank and looked through at our Jamila 's concentrating-so-hard profile , head bowed , as she read and sang and wrote in old school exercise books . |
| 18 | The Labour candidate advocating a pacifist programme , reversed a large Conservative majority in a seat never before held by Labour . |
| 19 | Johns was always liked , but it was ironic , and irony never interested me in visual art the way that it did in literature or the theatre . |
| 20 | ‘ That poor old genius , ’ Gustave commented , ‘ how irony never quits him . ’ |
| 21 | The agent never treated me as a serious buyer because I did n't fit his image of a businessman ’ ) , the adaptation process began . |
| 22 | But , at least , the agent never makes an inferior choice , never choosing x when y has greater expected utility . |
| 23 | The King 's mail never seemed to catch up with him , and now I did n't want Charlie to find out what I had been up to until I had the chance to witness his reaction for myself . |
| 24 | Her rival never rebuilt and had to give up . ’ |
| 25 | The wheel never stopped turning , the machines rattled backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , never slowing , never slacking , never tiring ; backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , ever anxious , ever urgent , ever eager ; full of anger and ambition with a rhythm so consistent , irresistibly insistent , ever beating , never cheating , beating , beating through the brain . |
| 26 | With me , however , Pop was soft and over-indulgent and the evening ritual never varied . |
| 27 | Rosalba never went to the trysting place , because Caterina could not bring herself to tell her sister about the assignation Tommaso had proposed in the byre . |
| 28 | Dona never had that problem because during her affair she entered a new and secret world that was so different from her other life . |
| 29 | Dona never had to feel the pain , torment or be racked with guilt as Anna did . |
| 30 | Total investment in the NFC in the years since privatization has totalled almost £700 million , whereas in state ownership investment never exceeded £25 million a year . |