Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nature of the obligation is simply that of an obligation to repay money which has been received and it is neither necessary nor logical , simply because the conditions of repayment relate to the performance of covenants in a lease , that the transfer of the reversion should create in the transferee an additional and co-extensive obligation to pay money which he has never received and in which he never had any interest or that the assignment of the term should vest in the assignee the right to receive a sum which he has never paid … |
| 2 | Men never realised that without women there 'd be no Christmas — and probably no other festivities such as birthdays either ! |
| 3 | Cotton topped the bill at the London Coliseum in 1939 and was such a hit that he was offered a 16-week provincial tour , never realised because of the Second World War . |
| 4 | In practice , the planning system is being used to settle disputes between neighbours in a way which was never intended and for which it is not designed . |
| 5 | No I 've never , never heard that before |
| 6 | ‘ You never caught that in the Severn did you ? , ’ she whispered . |
| 7 | I have never forgotten that near the end of his life my Father told me that in his loneliness Basil was the one of his five children who had given him most sympathy and understanding . |
| 8 | Whenever there 's been officers get together , then W R A D itself paid for my travelling expenses and I have never claimed that from the authority , as I did n't believe that was proper . |
| 9 | Despite General de Gaulle 's go-ahead to build twin units of the new design at Fessenheim in 1968 , they were never built and in 1970 PWRs under the Westinghouse licence were ordered . |
| 10 | ‘ But the whole of the church was never built because of the depression , then the war and local job losses . |
| 11 | When she died ( about 1925 ) , she left instructions in her Will for her body to be buried in this green paradise about which she had heard so much , and yet which she had never visited except in her dreams . |
| 12 | She 'd never said that to him before — nor indeed to anyone in her whole life . |
| 13 | I 've never said that to anyone — admitted I have family problems on occasions , that is . |
| 14 | She had been relieved when he first appeared in it ; it was bright blue striped with red , expensive , obviously new , a reassuring sign that the mother she had never met and of whom he never spoke , tried to take good care of him . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've never seen that in twenty years of football , ’ he said . |
| 16 | In no time at all , he was faster than he had been in practice , something I have never seen since in a race by a leading driver . |
| 17 | When they lock the man up with Jim and John and Henry and Mary and Dolores and Grace — I hope they will give him access to books , with paper enough for him to go on making translations for us from the classics such as we have never seen except at his hands in our language . |
| 18 | With microwave ovens , Manila and the flu epidemic suddenly dominating the news it was as if the event had never occurred except in Sir Anthony Meyer 's imagination . |
| 19 | Eleven of 36 male CLO patients had never smoked and of those who had smoked the median pack years accumulated was 15 ( mean 20.3 , range 5–60 pack years ) . |
| 20 | Never known that before |
| 21 | " I 've never smelt that in my life , " said Hazel with a touch of irritation . |
| 22 | And if these patterns , with their changing lexical content , are never experienced except in distorted or fragmented form , the necessary accommodation will not take place . |
| 23 | People say that if you do n't ask you get told more , but I have never found that to be true . |
| 24 | They are a quiet peaceful fish and some say delicate but I have never found that to be the case . |
| 25 | The fact that the Queen was pro-German would have been particularly hurtful to the Emperor personally , for only he had not succumbed to the general enthusiasm for a war he had never wanted and for which he feared the country was ill-prepared . |
| 26 | Even during the war-time emergency itself , women with children under fourteen were never conscripted , and evidence from the Ministry of Labour files suggests that interviewing panels behaved with greater leniency towards those married women who had never worked than towards those ( predominantly working class ) women who had . |
| 27 | In the 1830s and early 1840s Palmerston was able to handle both the Belgian question and the Near Eastern crises of 1832 – 33 and 1839 – 41 with little interference from parliament , so that in 1839 an acute observer of British politics could say with much justification that " foreign affairs are never discussed except at the House of Lords " . |
| 28 | The Bears were never headed but with just four heats left were still looking for extra inspiration . |
| 29 | It is now a matter of history that — notwithstanding an outlay of £150million at current prices on research and development and prototype trains — the technical potential of the train was never achieved and in 1983 the entire project was abandoned . |
| 30 | Attempts have been made to regularize the position and , in 1966 , the Russell Report on the Supply and Training of Teachers recommended that , by 1969 , a professional training requirement should be introduced for all new entrants into the further education colleges , a recommendation that was never implemented because of the urgent need for teachers at the time and the shortage of money . |