Example sentences of "never [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old age rarely seems to be regarded by a writer as interesting in itself : it is relevant above all as an influence on a young , new life , and never as the culmination of a lifetime . |
| 2 | He knew he had failed at so many things , but never as a teacher , never as that . |
| 3 | He knew he had failed at so many things , but never as a teacher , never as that . |
| 4 | She had given him an ideal ; she had given him what appears to have been unfailing and uncritical support : he was never as an adult to be easy without one woman on whom he could totally rely . |
| 5 | It must be a last resort in the sense that all else must first have been comprehensively considered and rejected — never because no other placement was available at the relevant time , because of inadequacies in staffing , because the child is simply being a nuisance or runs away from his accommodation and is not likely to suffer significant harm in doing so , and never as a form of punishment . |
| 6 | It is rarely spoken of as a lively city , and never as a promiscuous one . |
| 7 | But never , er from the wrong side of the bench , you know Never as a criminal . |
| 8 | Its musical version , My Fair Lady , is never off the stage . |
| 9 | And Elinor was never off her guard . |
| 10 | He was never off the massage table . |
| 11 | Never off duty for a moment , he took her into his training school and soon gave her a booking in his spectacular , Jack and Jill . |
| 12 | These detectives were never off their guard . |
| 13 | Like the policeman and the clergyman , he is ‘ never off duty ’ , so that he must be seen to lead a life of probity . |
| 14 | She had always understood that Janine 's mother was never off the doorstep , that 's why she never came herself . |
| 15 | I admit that I 'm as much to blame , I should have come to visit her , but I understood her mother was never off the doorstep , so I left her to it . |
| 16 | Unlike doctors and social workers , families are never off duty . |
| 17 | Perhaps it was this easy smile that drew Alice , although her eyes , never off guard , were like hard little brown buttons . |
| 18 | But one was never off duty . |
| 19 | TEDDY Taylor is never off the television these days . |
| 20 | Because he 's never off the lead . |
| 21 | The first follows the attempts by the first-person narrator to reconstruct the life and inner motivation of the Triestine man of letters , Roberto ( ‘ Bobi ’ ) Bazlen ( 1902–1965 ) , whose literary ambitions were realized solely through the promotion of other writers and never through a completed work of his own . |
| 22 | Our struggle has taught us also that black workers must never for a moment entertain the thought of separate black unions . |
| 23 | The Spirit was exciting to drive … but never for any of the right reasons . |
| 24 | As the years passed , he sacrificed a little speed for greater control , especially of away-swing , but that run-up never for a moment lost its beauty . |
| 25 | Isabel Lavender had never for one moment doubted that everything would somehow , eventually , go her way , though she could accept the idea of temporary setbacks . |
| 26 | Yes , Dorothea thought , I would enjoy her company , she would take me out of myself , for she has never for one moment lost her grip upon life , her grasp of a situation , her confidence . |
| 27 | But Martin Pipe is a realist , and never for a moment did he stand in my way when the Docklands Express ride came up . |
| 28 | While the baritone Gregory Yurisich 's superbly sung Tell was a commanding figure , wholly believable as the focus of patriotic Swiss revolt against the Austrian oppressor , the American tenor Chris Merritt as Arnold and the soprano Jane Eaglen as Princess Mathilde never for a moment suggested romantic ardour . |
| 29 | Early in Chapter One I referred to Marthinus ' expression of regret that education persisted in training pupils to see a stone as a specimen and never for itself , to see the handler of a stone as a classifier of specimens and not as important in himself . |
| 30 | But never for the hell of it . |