Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was advised to ‘ keep a low profile ’ in future but was never reprimanded for her conduct . |
| 2 | Bellingham , the most expensive and prestigious barber in London and supplier still of razors to those clients who had never adjusted to the shaving habits of the twentieth century . |
| 3 | He had never joined in the masturbation rites at school , either . |
| 4 | It was never treated as a political power . |
| 5 | The curious thing about such stretches of Creole is that they are never treated as an invitation to continue the conversation in Creole , but rather as a one-off comment . |
| 6 | Five male and six female hypertensives were never treated with antihypertensive drugs — four because pressure fell when a cause was removed ( one was given a renal transplant and three stopped oral contraception ) , four because patients refused , and three because no treatment programme was ever organised ( one of these died of intercurrent disease soon after diagnosis , and the other two both had predominant alcohol problems ) . |
| 7 | " The precise point which was never treated in detail was the degree of imminence of the admittedly forthcoming dissolution of Turkey " . |
| 8 | The eighties is the end of that era , with the Labour Party hoist on its own identification with a housing form which was borrowed from ideological sources which were never formulated by and for the working class itself . |
| 9 | While Mogul published a notice in the local paper seeking the retention of the lake , ‘ the application for retention was never received from the company , and the County Council did not pursue the matter . |
| 10 | ‘ One of the selling points when I joined was that I 'd be privy to scripts that I was never exposed to because I never had an agent . ’ |
| 11 | We 've never jumped on the bandwagon 'cos it 's clearly going to end in tears , but there 's definitely been a vibe that has n't been around since the days of the Buzzcocks and The Electric Circus . |
| 12 | Prayer rugs , for example , are never referred to as carpets , and anything employing a hunting design would ten to be called a hunting carpet rather than a hunting rug . |
| 13 | The dramatic incident at Hause Point was never referred to . |
| 14 | Also avoided are comparisons in sound produced between modern piano wire ( which is never mentioned ) , the various carbon steels available for early instruments ( which are listed ) and the carbon-free phosphorus steel originally used , at least on the earlier instruments ( which are never referred to , but the relevant book by Goodway and Odell is in the bibliography ) . |
| 15 | This is not to say that a three E's audit is never undertaken in nationalized industries . |
| 16 | In the course of a debate on a Bill to remove the marriage bar , introduced in 1927 , MPs expressed feelings of revulsion at the ‘ travesty of nature ’ presented by the image of a working mother and in the last instance a father at home looking after the baby , but the same degree of indignation was never aroused by the work of married women of a lower social class . |
| 17 | It was rumoured that banknotes were never withdrawn from circulation but simply frayed away . |
| 18 | It was never realised as such , of course , and the conflict for supremacy between popes and kings took centuries to resolve . |
| 19 | Why had she never realised before this that Dana had every right to do as she pleased , regardless of how her sister felt ? |
| 20 | Why had she never realised before now that Dana resented looking like her sister ? |
| 21 | Why had she never realised before how eerie the rustling of the trees could be , how creepy the sound of the breeze rattling the reeds that lined the riverbank ? |
| 22 | Adam 's face was mere inches from her own , his eyes hot with a fury she had never witnessed in him before . |
| 23 | As we have already mentioned , for this reason , shelter sheds and troughs are never placed in the very corners of paddocks or yards . |
| 24 | The channel tunnel was never intended as a means of communication , but as a storage facility for radioactive waste from Iraq . |
| 25 | The promise of the field-marshal 's baton in every private 's knapsack was never intended as a programme for promoting all soldiers to field-marshals . |
| 26 | The Video book was never intended for broadcast ; it is made from library film footage transferred to disc and tape for video issue , and aimed at the relatively limited number of people who will want to buy or hire it . |
| 27 | The middle-class children 's toy is never intended for mere amusement or pleasure ; its prime interest is its educational value , the child must absorb the toy as a challenge , something from which it will learn in order to improve itself . |
| 28 | Her mizzen mast was gone , her sprit was gone , the mainmast was never intended for climbing and Tilda sat where there was , apparently , nowhere to sit . |
| 29 | A Home Office spokesman said : ‘ It is an internal document and was never intended for publication . |
| 30 | Artificial plastic beams are frequently introduced , ceilings are stripped of plaster to reveal floor joists that were never intended to be seen , other timbers are artificially blackened to create a supposedly ‘ traditional ’ though in fact inauthentic ‘ black and white ’ effect and render or plaster is removed from walls to produce ‘ rustic ’ charm . |