Example sentences of "never [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mercifully , ideas of this kind never met with much support , and finally , in 1932 , the controlling body of world astronomy , the International Astronomical Union , lost patience . |
| 2 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 3 | Quigley never recovered from that evening . |
| 4 | The port never recovered from this blow and about 10 per cent of the trade lost to Gdynia during this crisis never returned . |
| 5 | Derek 's father never recovered from this loss and refused to acknowledge the younger child 's previous or continued existence . |
| 6 | In 1941 her much-loved younger son Peter was lost at sea when the ship on which he served was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic ; she never recovered from this loss . |
| 7 | The rift between the two younger men never healed after that quarrel , and their families never spoke again . |
| 8 | Spiers was trained in the Gothic school , but Bolton , who knew him well , insists that he never referred to any buildings of his own and little is apparently known about his work as an architect . |
| 9 | Likewise north-facing , and therefore never filled with much light , even in summer , George 's office had been fitted out in style . |
| 10 | I believe especially I never came on this campaign until after I went to see Arafat . |
| 11 | They went a little while ago , apart from that they never came on this end |
| 12 | We never came to any agreement , but I can say for my part that I developed fairly firm ideas of my own on the matter during the course of such discussions , and they are by and large the beliefs I still hold today . |
| 13 | ‘ You are quite sure that Riddle never came to this house ? ’ |
| 14 | So people left Earth and never returned to that planet . |
| 15 | She never returned from that mission ; it is believed that an explosion took place while she was directly over the site of the volcano . |
| 16 | Although there was a resistance movement to the German occupation , it never developed on any scale and did not have the support of the mass of the people who were coddled by the occupying regime . |
| 17 | I would n't do it now because I , ever since that , that woman was on the train was stabbed and thrown out , I would n't go alone on holidays now but in those days , well maybe I was a lot , course I was younger then but you never heard of such things |
| 18 | Well we 'll get carbon dioxide off , so you might be iridium carbonate or ytterbium , we 've got a powder which may be ytterbium car carbonate or ytterbium sulphate and you never heard of this stuff , ah carbonate carbonate and maybe , maybe ytterbium carbonate does n't give off carbon dioxide with acid , but there is a very good chance it does cos all the others you 've ever heard about do . |
| 19 | I never heard of these scripts again and they were never broadcast to my knowledge , but , for whatever interest they may have , I included one of them in my collection of short stories , scripts and plot summaries under the title ‘ Bits and Pieces ’ to be published one day . |
| 20 | We never heard any grumbling , everyone ate everything and we never heard of any health problems ( if there were any ) ; it was totally refreshing for all to be themselves and be accepted as they were . |
| 21 | At the school debating society he won a name ; and he quickly discovered a truth never discovered by some undergraduates nor even by some mature debaters , that you can not speak well unless you care . |
| 22 | Although he was involved with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre , he never settled with any organisation for long , nor did he believe that permanent companies were likely to produce better work than ad hoc assemblies . |
| 23 | He certainly never talked about any time in the forces . |
| 24 | During the five days between that dreadful night and the day of the funeral , Joe and Ellen Jebeau never looked at each other , nor did a word pass between them . |
| 25 | The two men never looked at each other , their conversation a secret between them . |
| 26 | Nigel never looked at any building before examining the head , and I had learnt never to become too enthused about interiors until this had been done . |
| 27 | Jones , 33 , took a 3-0 lead and never looked in any danger after that . |
| 28 | ‘ On this occasion , the Argentine government and its people , who never consented to that act of force , reiterate their permanent will to recover by diplomatic means the exercise of its territorial sovereignty over the Malvinas , Southern Georgias and Sandwich islands and the surrounding waters , ’ the communique said . |
| 29 | Erm but I certainly never felt under any threat or any danger from people in the flats . |
| 30 | I never thought of that angle . ’ |