Example sentences of "never [vb past] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone ‘ recovers ’ from their arthritic condition but later develops a heart condition then , in reality , they never recovered at all but the focus of their disease shifted from a more superficial to a deeper level . |
| 2 | I was coddled and cosseted , pampered and petted and never shouted at . |
| 3 | Erm occupation when you , you were talking about travel when , he 'd told you what he was doing and he was associated with an American company or the parent company was in America erm you mentioned about travel , Steve started talking about car and miles he drives and he also mentioned flying but you never explored at all really the , the flying side . |
| 4 | ‘ I never noticed at the time . |
| 5 | I do n't know why I never drove at home . |
| 6 | Karen never arrived at her meeting with Drew , Pete and the journalist from the New York Times . |
| 7 | The 3 times Grand national winner never raced at Cheltenham . |
| 8 | I suppose there must be some records in a dusty file somewhere of how often the ground crews lost the race against time and had the aircraft and bombs blow up in front of them , but as far as I can recollect this never happened at Bourn , at least not while I was there , and we were thankful to get through each busy night without catastrophes of that kind . |
| 9 | ‘ Things like that never happened at court in Queen Elizabeth 's days . ’ |
| 10 | The most common request is that everything should be set back the way it was at time X and it should appear as though the work carried out on package Y never happened at all ! |
| 11 | Oh , he never barked at me ! |
| 12 | He never glanced at the visas , never looked at my passport . |
| 13 | ‘ He let me become a blacksmith , which was his job too , only he never worked at it . |
| 14 | Other painters would complain if a model did not please them , but Modigliani never swore at the girls or reproached them . |
| 15 | Of course I knew he saw Otto , but not what those visits implied , and Helmut — whether from loyalty to his friend or on account of some sort of inhibition in relation to me — never hinted at anything improper . |
| 16 | Postwoman Val took Pat home , where her husband made him a Jamaican meal and Pat then went off to boogie to a steel band , like a rasta on ganja , exhibiting a sense of abandon never hinted at in Greendale . |
| 17 | He never talked at you . |
| 18 | He never looked at the exit numbers , he said later , but he was sure it was between two exits on the M6 to Liverpool , roughly between seventeen and eighteen . |
| 19 | She never looked at a woman 's magazine after that , though she saw from their covers , displayed beside the supermarket till , that they had not changed , but went on churning out the same old stuff . |
| 20 | ‘ Ah ! j'adore ça ’ , he said and never looked at a single picture . |
| 21 | One fellow called Birtles , who worked with me — he never looked at you straight , a fisherman from Grimsby . |
| 22 | Awake , she never looked at him without smiling . |
| 23 | Nigel never looked at any building before examining the head , and I had learnt never to become too enthused about interiors until this had been done . |
| 24 | During the five days between that dreadful night and the day of the funeral , Joe and Ellen Jebeau never looked at each other , nor did a word pass between them . |
| 25 | The two men never looked at each other , their conversation a secret between them . |
| 26 | She never looked at the child unless she had to . |
| 27 | But she did n't want to be the first to speak to him , and he never looked at her . |
| 28 | He never glanced at the visas , never looked at my passport . |
| 29 | He knew I opened the door but he never looked at me . |
| 30 | She got ready for bed and never looked at herself again but it was hard to bring her mind back to Ana 's problems and the great mystery of the hacienda . |