Example sentences of "but [pers pn] be never [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In point of fact the reverse ruled : I was constantly having chits thrust at me giving me a blow-by-blow account of " Charlie 's " state of health , but I was never made aware of the seriousness of Eddie 's wound , and somehow I did not know until I visited him in hospital later that morning . |
| 2 | Well , who did n't ? who would n't ? but she 's never cottoned on to me , and so I do n't know whether or not she 's told you … oh , to put it plainly , I had to give her her marching orders . ’ |
| 3 | I dread it when she walks in house cos I always think she 's gon na start having a go at me , but she 's never said owt to me yet , has she ? |
| 4 | It 's for all these reasons that Madonna has been accused of setting back the women 's movement 30 years , but she 's never claimed to be speaking for the cause . |
| 5 | But she 's never used a phrase like that before . |
| 6 | But she 's never hurt her before , not like this . ’ |
| 7 | She was informed that they were being boarded by the police , but she was never heard from again . |
| 8 | Some hands were very very bad " ; but she was never tempted to walk out . ) |
| 9 | It was suggested she 'd gone to live at Newport in Gwent , but she was never located . |
| 10 | One woman activist summed up the mood : ‘ We get crumbs from the table but we 're never allowed a seat . ’ |
| 11 | Of course we shall sometimes feel lonely but we were never meant , grim-faced and tight-lipped , to slog on alone . |
| 12 | Sometimes we took food for Dr Sambataro too , as his wife was not well and could not go often , but we were never allowed to see him . |
| 13 | I remember sitting in the cockpit and being cooked by the sun for a few hours , but we were never scrambled . ’ |
| 14 | We have been told that finances for health and safety will be found but we were never told from where that money would come from . |
| 15 | He says we were told one of them was very badly deformed — but we were never told why — I wondered if that was put down to the tests . |
| 16 | ‘ They had their own little bits of garden but they were never made to help when they were young , which is probably why they liked it all the more . ’ |
| 17 | Two , maybe three , parachutists were dubiously reported to have been sighted , but they were never heard of again . |
| 18 | They can be rough , ragged , they can have fights onstage , but they were never meant to be a workaday band . |
| 19 | The nave was begun in 1392 and the great crossing tower four years later , but they were never finished as the start of the Hussite Wars in 1421 put a stop to most artistic activity in the capital ( see p. 6 ) . |
| 20 | Although minors , they had legal rights of their own , and could have engaged a solicitor , but they were never informed of these rights . |
| 21 | ‘ But he 's never made the career he could have done . |
| 22 | I think Francis Morgan feels I 'm a bit old for Angela — I 'm forty-three and she is twenty-nine — but he 's never brought himself to say so . |
| 23 | I wish he would , but he 's never offered . |
| 24 | So I shall have four or five hours ( unless he cheats and does n't get all I 've asked , but he 's never failed before ) . |
| 25 | My Dad s always talking about trying a windmill , but he 's never managed it yet , so it 's home-made tallow candles in the winter , to save the electricity . |
| 26 | But he 's never found a better subject , than Alice 's underground adventures . |
| 27 | With his academic background , he would probably have done well in the written examinations but he was never invited to take them . |
| 28 | But he was never heard to say what he thought ( if , indeed , he thought anything at all ) about this vast amount of random detail he must have accumulated in his later years . |
| 29 | But he was never mentioned and it was more than her life was worth to ask . |
| 30 | But he was never overawed by the sheer scale of the task he undertook . |