Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The fighting never stopped from the time I got to Los Angeles , but no one gained ground . |
| 6 | The idea of breaking into the Colonel 's den never occurred to me — it was just too plain terrifying . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The agent never treated me as a serious buyer because I did n't fit his image of a businessman ’ ) , the adaptation process began . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Rosalba never went to the trysting place , because Caterina could not bring herself to tell her sister about the assignation Tommaso had proposed in the byre . |
| 13 | Dona never had that problem because during her affair she entered a new and secret world that was so different from her other life . |
| 14 | Dona never had to feel the pain , torment or be racked with guilt as Anna did . |
| 15 | Total investment in the NFC in the years since privatization has totalled almost £700 million , whereas in state ownership investment never exceeded £25 million a year . |
| 16 | The programme never described him as such , though he certainly wields the authority you would expect that title would give him . |
| 17 | ‘ Do You Really Want To Hurt Me ’ was total '80s pop , all glamour , gold , harmony and , as they used to say in them days , like punk never happened . |
| 18 | The rains failed for two years in succession and the fodder crops planted in the demonstration ranch never materialized . |
| 19 | More than three thousand worked in woodland throughout the country to ensure British industry never ran out of timber . |
| 20 | During his 10 years as chairman of the Advertising Standards Authority the industry never approached him to change policies or attitudes . |
| 21 | After my mother died , and he married Stella — well , even then , with a new marriage , his support and guidance never faltered . ’ |
| 22 | Mummy never cried . |
| 23 | But however professional we may have considered ourselves as seamen , our administration never allowed us to forget that first and foremost we were customs officers . |
| 24 | ‘ Mandy , you said the wind never blew here . ’ |
| 25 | But with the apparently ageless Walter Kidd running around with John Robertson safely tucked away in his back pocket , the home side never looked like conceding a goal . |
| 26 | John Bond 's side never got a look in as Quakers took command in the first half hour . |
| 27 | This Brazilian team can mark and tackle with a cool realism that their 1974 World Cup side never achieved in West Germany , when toughness became confused with thuggery . |
| 28 | The car never ran again and Stewart himself was in bed with a bad dose of the cold for a week . |
| 29 | The car never felt as if it was going to come good . |
| 30 | But at least his concentration never flagged . |