Example sentences of "[conj] it never [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its capacity as spokesman the BDDA was particularly active in the educational field , where it never ceased to act as a pressure group in favour of the combined system . |
| 2 | It struck me as a bit odd that it never seemed to leave the ground . |
| 3 | In its post-election issue , the Independent on Sunday offered a list of phrases that it never wanted to hear again . |
| 4 | The child was born to what must have been exhausted parents , strained to their physical and mental limits , and it never lived to see another year ; in the December of 1771 the nameless infant was buried on Catherine Hill — the first occupant of plot number 119 , but certainly not the last . |
| 5 | He often did this when in contemplative mood and it never failed to unnerve me . |
| 6 | She was not a greatly intelligent woman , being one of those persons who always seem busy without ever achieving anything in particular , and it never failed to amaze her that her son could remember what he read when she had difficulty remembering the day of the week . |
| 7 | Its windows were silvered and the doors locked , and it never stopped to let passengers on or off . |
| 8 | It was better if it never had happened . ’ |
| 9 | A source of worry in this respect was Alex James , with his taste for night clubs , but it never seemed to affect his game to any great extent . |
| 10 | She was accustomed to the barriers to understanding between the sexes , but it never ceased to annoy her : it was one of the reasons she had had to expel her mother 's lover . |