Example sentences of "never [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Averment that everything necessary happened to entitle the plaintiff to have the said testator pay to him eighteen of the yearly sums of £150 and that the time therefore elapsed after he had married Ellen Nicholl and during the testator 's lifetime and that plaintiffs annual income from his profession as a Chancery barrister never amounted to 600 guineas ; that the testator paid 12 of the 18 annual sums and part of the thirteenth but that the residue of that and the 5 subsequent instalments were due and unpaid . |
| 2 | Hey d' ya know I never realized till last week |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Er never asked about full names er of everyone whether it be yourself , the husband or the kids the full names . |
| 5 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 6 | Although these years witnessed a very low tide of economic activity including the horrors of widespread famine and even peasant revolts in some areas like Tambov , problems concerning religious belief and taxation never led to large-scale uprisings in the Smolensk guberniia ( nor indeed anywhere else in Russia ) . |
| 7 | No one , indeed , could have been more easy-going ; but we never got on close terms or found much in common during the four months we had been together since leaving England . |
| 8 | Real shame our movie never got past first base . |
| 9 | Secondly , she never lived to middle age . |
| 10 | Quigley never recovered from that evening . |
| 11 | Margery Kempe has been diagnosed as a case of religious hysteria who never recovered from puerperal fever , a victim of sexual repression , and as a hysterical personality who had psychotic episodes with pathological distortion of the sexual impulse . |
| 12 | The port never recovered from this blow and about 10 per cent of the trade lost to Gdynia during this crisis never returned . |
| 13 | Derek 's father never recovered from this loss and refused to acknowledge the younger child 's previous or continued existence . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At first I was doubtful about taking him , for he did not look strong ; but the Sandfords assured us that he had stood up to several long treks with them , invariably producing good meals even under the most unfavourable conditions , that he never interfered with other people , and was always ready to lend a hand at any job . |
| 16 | The rift between the two younger men never healed after that quarrel , and their families never spoke again . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Because it never occurred to one person not to keep that running total . ’ |
| 19 | They should be used with care to avoid over-consolidation and destruction of soil structure , and never used in wet conditions . |
| 20 | Though never used in wet snow ( in short supply last winter ) a wet day on Pennine peat is a fair substitute and I stayed bone dry , as expected |
| 21 | I spent so much effort and expense to outbid my rivals , I never stopped for one moment to consider if I really wanted the prize . |
| 22 | Many of its contemporaries , such as Coverdale and Swaledale , which never transferred to large-scale factory production , have recently been revived , but Wensleydale is the best known of this group . |
| 23 | ‘ I never played with other children and I did n't have any friends . |
| 24 | Likewise north-facing , and therefore never filled with much light , even in summer , George 's office had been fitted out in style . |
| 25 | Some Nonjurors , though never implicated in Jacobite intrigue , nevertheless were committed to the principle of a Stuart restoration — for example the cleric , Jeremy Collier , or the lawyer , Roger North , who had been attorney-general to the Queen in James II 's reign . |
| 26 | I believe especially I never came on this campaign until after I went to see Arafat . |
| 27 | They went a little while ago , apart from that they never came on this end |
| 28 | Senna led from the start and , apart from a brief skirmish in the opening laps , never came under serious pressure . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ You are quite sure that Riddle never came to this house ? ’ |