Example sentences of "[noun] never [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that the defendant had never been told he was being entrusted with secrets , there was no express covenant covering business secrets and the defendant never knew that he must not talk about his work outside his employment . |
| 2 | Not a muscle of Nan 's face moved , her stroke never faltered as she brushed and watched the flakes fall down on the newspaper she had spread beneath . |
| 3 | Mr Healey — the best leader Labour never had , and a man of such substance as the party no longer possesses — was regarding , from under shaggy eyebrows , the large and rollicking volume of his autobiography , just published , which lay on the table between us in his hotel suite . |
| 4 | For although his daughter Maire never became a top ballet star she is a member of a highly successful family band . |
| 5 | The Blushing Groom colt never had a moment 's worry on the soft ground , sitting in fifth position until straightening for home and then powering away from his rivals inside the two-furlong marker . |
| 6 | The fighting never stopped from the time I got to Los Angeles , but no one gained ground . |
| 7 | The idea of breaking into the Colonel 's den never occurred to me — it was just too plain terrifying . |
| 8 | Frankie never made the mistake of approaching him without invitation . |
| 9 | Frankie never did . ’ |
| 10 | Jamila never closed the door , so Changez and I drank and looked through at our Jamila 's concentrating-so-hard profile , head bowed , as she read and sang and wrote in old school exercise books . |
| 11 | Ellen never returned this caress . |
| 12 | And Ellen never replied now , not even with a note , though money was sent to her as regularly as ever . |
| 13 | Mr Gorbachev never referred to the SDI in any of the other summit sessions , said US officials . |
| 14 | Johns was always liked , but it was ironic , and irony never interested me in visual art the way that it did in literature or the theatre . |
| 15 | The agent never treated me as a serious buyer because I did n't fit his image of a businessman ’ ) , the adaptation process began . |
| 16 | The King 's mail never seemed to catch up with him , and now I did n't want Charlie to find out what I had been up to until I had the chance to witness his reaction for myself . |
| 17 | This , too , was curious : Creed never had anything to do with embalmers . |
| 18 | Philip 's reluctance to risk battle helps to explain why even so famous a soldier as Richard never fought a battle in Europe , with the possible exception of his " battle " against Vulgrin of Angoulême 's mercenaries in 1176 — but that was probably a slaughter rather than a battle . |
| 19 | The hatch on Lord Jim was always locked , but Richard never forgot the key . |
| 20 | The wheel never stopped turning , the machines rattled backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , never slowing , never slacking , never tiring ; backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , backwards and forwards , ever anxious , ever urgent , ever eager ; full of anger and ambition with a rhythm so consistent , irresistibly insistent , ever beating , never cheating , beating , beating through the brain . |
| 21 | Despite repeated rape and electric shock , Paulina never mentioned the name of her lover , who married her after she was released , though he had taken up with another woman . |
| 22 | But his eyes never left the four men before him . |
| 23 | Delaney 's eyes never left those of the man as cautiously he tried again . |
| 24 | He let the words sink , and he wrote sharply , and his eyes never left the boy . |
| 25 | Her eyes never left his , the woman 's , and she did not a damn thing to cross her legs or put her hands across her breasts . |
| 26 | Her hand was in Mansel 's , and their two hands lay in her lap : her beautiful head was bowed , and her eyes never left the eyes of the man she loved . |
| 27 | Ben 's eyes never left the teacher 's face . |
| 28 | Her eyes never left him . |
| 29 | But his eyes never left her distant , shadowed figure , seeing at once how slowly she moved , how awkwardly , hobbling down the steps one by one , stopping time and again to rest , her whole body crooked , one hand clutching the side rail tightly , as if she 'd fall without it . |
| 30 | Bissell 's eyes never left Rohmer as he spoke , and Rohmer knew what the thing meant when it said it would n't talk to Gilbert anymore . |