Example sentences of "but never a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 'd think he 'd come for the Christmas or even write but never a word , no thought for anybody except himself , ’ and it cast a deep shadow when they tried to imagine what kind of space enclosed Luke in England during the same hour , but they were n't able to imagine it . |
| 2 | But never a great organizer , he was bad at deputizing authority to others . |
| 3 | But never a mention of the ambulancemen and women . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ But never a Waterloo to follow . ’ |
| 5 | He gets annual increases but never a big salary jump , which he would if he were promoted . |
| 6 | With a slash of knife , the hospital , the prison — he had many names for the school where he was both patient and prisoner but never a pupil — comes slithering into his mind . |
| 7 | ‘ We 've had motorists hitting live pheasants and other birds and animals but never a frozen turkey , ’ said an AA spokesman . |
| 8 | There were a lot of grimaces , and a little dry bark sometimes , but never a laugh . |
| 9 | The Kyalami Ranch was very much the sort of place where James liked relaxing : you might have to wait two hours for your dinner , but never a moment for the sun , and James is a basker , the deckchair his habitat . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's an idiot , ’ said Piquet , once a team-mate of Mansell 's — but never a friend . |
| 11 | Forsyth 's work has many virtues : engaging characters and fine performances ; an oblique ( but never a bleak ) vision that lends commonplace events a new-minted freshness ; and a denseness of narrative and mise-en-scène ( in a Forsyth film interesting things happen in a corner of the frame ) . |
| 12 | I 've often seen a cat without a grin , ’ thought Alice , ‘ but never a grin without a cat ! ’ |
| 13 | I 'd seen premature babies but never a baby that small . |
| 14 | ‘ My lord came down here from the town when he heard of these outlaws passing this way , but never a glimpse of them have we encountered since . |
| 15 | I felt up from thigh to hip , and leaned close where I judged his face to be , but never a breath or a sign of life . |
| 16 | He was involved in the peace movement but never a pacifist . |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't say I have — a dog 's , sir , but never a cat 's . ’ |
| 18 | I have never spoken one word before fine , many a scuttle here and there , but never a WORD . |
| 19 | You can often allow a verb and an object together , but never a subject and a verb , so sentence three and five you can say Florence said she teased Dougal and she did , I E she did tease Dougal , but sentence four is ill-formed . |
| 20 | Almost at the same moment an English observer put it more succinctly : " Foreign service may sometimes provide a good stirrup but never a good saddle " . |
| 21 | You sometimes see volleys go in like it … but never a dead ball situation . |
| 22 | All the other players you hear about from time to time , Charlton , Giles , Hunter et all but never a word about Harvey . |
| 23 | He interrupted her thoughts and showed he was himself still on the same track , for he observed , ‘ I 've been called many things in my time , but never a bully , or , ’ he frowned again , ‘ a megalomaniac out of a horror movie . ’ |
| 24 | A man with a calling , a , man with a quiet mission , Basil certainly was , but never an over-serious educational zealot . |
| 25 | Ten swords to be reckoned with , but never an archer among them , and the soft , constant rain dulling all sound . |