Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] never [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither was there Wendy , a girl in my form ( it had been a school trip ) who had legs that never quit , long legs , the type rampant fell men dream of . |
| 2 | The suburban road , narrow and deserted , seemed to stretch onwards towards a narrow cone of light that never enlarged , never diminished . |
| 3 | Tristan immediately threw out a band in a dramatic gesture and declaimed : " Speak on , sweet lips that never told a lie ! " |
| 4 | Many of these were deep-space vessels that never landed on worlds . |
| 5 | Many years later Harry Houghton , one of the members of the Portland spy ring sentenced to 15 years ' imprisonment in 1961 , claimed that his Russian controller ( who was , incidentally , somehow tipped off about the impending arrest of the spy ring and never caught ) , told him during a meeting at the Crown Inn , at Punknoll in Dorset ( not far from the underwater research laboratory where Houghton worked ) , that the Russians had been warned of Crabb 's plan . |
| 6 | It was a terrible time for the Orcs , who suffered defeat after defeat and never found a leader of their own to equal Sigmar . |
| 7 | Ringa Hustle got off to a flyer and never landed … |
| 8 | that at people being able to get into a car and never driven before and be allowed out onto a highway ! |
| 9 | Linford heeded the words and never looked back . |
| 10 | The rest of my family was made up of three sisters — Sal , the eldest who was five and knew when she was born because it was in the middle of the night and had kept the old man awake , Grace who was three and did n't cause anyone to lose sleep , and red-headed Kitty who was eighteen months and never stopped bawling . |
| 11 | She had a special driver , who unlike some , cared for his horse and never overworked her . |
| 12 | Neglected children were sent to special schools and never allowed to see their mothers or fathers or nannies again for the rest of their lives . |
| 13 | Felix Bloch , 55 , a career diplomat who was suspected of spying but never charged , was dismissed from the State Department on Nov. 5 , for allegedly making " deliberate false statements or misrepresentations to the FBI [ Federal Bureau of Investigation ] " . |
| 14 | White Face was presumably trusting to his second compartment , ‘ the part that never hatched ’ , to see him along his course . |
| 15 | I had not gone far before the rain started and it soon became a sluicing downpour that never abated all day . |
| 16 | Most of our problems were due to weather and poorly functioning equipment : an extended-range Loran that never worked , an ADF that pointed in the wrong direction and a kaput old-fashioned venturi altitude indicator . |
| 17 | The walls were washed a pale green that never looked bright and fresh and clean . |
| 18 | The practice consisted of a slow-motion exercise that never stopped . |
| 19 | The first was meant to unseat Digital Equipment Corp 's PDP-11 on the glow of the IBM name alone , but was sent naked into the market with no software and became the ultimate dogsbody product , a computing resource for any whim that needed one , a computer without portfolio that never found a central role . |
| 20 | ‘ You certainly have mastered your anatomy , ’ she told him admiringly as he slid his hands across the small of her back to find that ecstatic erogenous zone that never failed to set her on fire . |
| 21 | The plucky 14-year-old was determined however to experience the magic of DisneyWorld and never stopped smiling all week . |
| 22 | He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length . |
| 23 | One woman had her finger cut off in a slicing machine and never received any compensation . |
| 24 | A week later you returned to that place of winter and never returned . ’ |
| 25 | Papin did not develop his discovery and never produced a full sized working engine . |
| 26 | He did not ask for independence and never attempted to repudiate the suzerainty of the sultan . |
| 27 | We only had enamel plates at home and never had food like this . |
| 28 | ‘ She was a lovely wee girl and never missed a day . |
| 29 | As he foretold , thousands of Alpini lost their lives and never returned . |
| 30 | Rack renting of this marginal land , bitterly attacked by reformers but never remedied , was the greatest single cause of hardship to those who had not sunk or been born into the vast reservoir of casual labour . |