Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] never [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bricoleur was a handyman who , by using bits of machinery or equipment , the original purpose of which had been forgotten or never known , was able to solve immediate mechanical problems . |
| 2 | The full fiery rage of the nun was something that Mrs Carroll had not expected and never wanted to know again . |
| 3 | Eagles needed to witness the migrations of the smaller birds , or to fly afield to see the world beyond territories which at other times of the year they spent their time protecting and never left . |
| 4 | At the very least they must be contained and never allowed to sally out . |
| 5 | At the war 's end , charity assembled to comfort her for a brief moment and whilst wishing her long life , nevertheless dispersed and never reassembled . |
| 6 | In turn it meant that governments were let off the hook , because the potentially irresistible pressure of millions of outraged citizens demanding meaningful action and the changes of policy necessary to effect permanent change , was never harnessed and never applied . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , then your outraged mother leapt into the car which was loaded with our luggage because we intended to be off to Urbino that morning , and apparently she decided on some kind of hara-kiri or felo de se , a consummation of our marriage devoutly to be wished but never performed . |
| 8 | POOR old Neil Webb — forgotten but never forgiven . |
| 9 | Other more drastic proposals were ventilated but never put into practice . |
| 10 | ‘ It was like having a severe bout of food poisoning that never got better , ’ she recalled . |
| 11 | Never met or never parted |
| 12 | I spoke with the MM who had never heard of me , never read anything I had written and never heard anything I 've said on radio , e.g. to callers on advice line phone-ins . |
| 13 | Looking back with seventy years ' hindsight , Dad might have been wiser to have accepted this offer , but things were different before the First World War and couples might quarrel and argue all their married life as Mum and Dad did but rarely separated and never divorced . |
| 14 | Pilcher was severely injured and never regained consciousness ; he died two days later , 2 October 1899 , at Stanford Hall . |
| 15 | That is , these methods , typifications , and practices are employed by policemen and women as the main resource for accomplishing police work , and their relevance and applicability is taken for granted and never challenged . |
| 16 | It provided answers to every conceivable question with an assurance and a seemingly impregnable logic which the romantics of the 1940s , the nihilists of the 1860s , and the populists of the 1870s had sought but never found . |
| 17 | Five other items were prepared but never performed ( The Haunted Man ; The Bastille Prisoner ; Great Expectations ; Mrs Lirriper 's Lodgings ; The Signalman ) . |
| 18 | South African involvement is suspected but never proved . |
| 19 | She lifted the blue-grey towelling from its hook , and sniffed delicately at the material ; it was clean and odourless with no man-animal scent , as if it had been bought and hung but never worn . |
| 20 | Teddies sent by Mrs B to her children were never received and never returned . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's the miracle they 've needed and never dared hope for , ’ she said quietly . |
| 22 | They taught me to ollie and stuff and I really liked it and kept going and never stopped . |
| 23 | At his christening his mother gave him a second forename , ‘ Arthur ’ , which he did not like and never used . |
| 24 | ‘ The sky ’ , we are told , ‘ is like a person yawned and never stopped . ’ |
| 25 | A companion work on the French Church was researched but never written , though Bodley published two lectures in 1906 on the separation of Church and State . |
| 26 | And after all , Rothesay , so they said , had led Margaret a dog 's life after all her father 's pains to secure him for her , and been by any standard a poor bargain for any girl , having worn out so many before her — including , the bolder gossips whispered , Dunbar 's unhappy daughter , affianced and bedded but never wed . |
| 27 | What is now required is a large scale , well co-ordinated research programme on the products from all known kilns , many of which have been excavated but never published . |
| 28 | Some mangrove lands have been cleared for shrimp projects that never operated . |
| 29 | And er that 's how I performed the , but I kept it to myself all these years you know and never told anybody what I 'd done because I think it was terrible . |
| 30 | Posh Porky knew exactly when and where she was born and never stopped reminding us all that she was nearly a year younger than anyone else in the class . |