Example sentences of "never [vb past] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result many would-be house purchasers never qualified for a loan . |
| 2 | I even got to the point where I was an approved parliamentary candidate , but I never applied for a seat so I ca n't say I was ever rejected ! ’ |
| 3 | He never lacked for both helpers and escort , but men on starvation diet take time to respond to good feeding , and their willingness far outran what was left of their strength . |
| 4 | In the first issue of Nord-Sud , a periodical which appeared in 1917 with the purpose of reintegrating and stimulating artistic life in Paris , Reverdy , feeling that some kind of objective evaluation of Cubism was by this time possible , wrote : ‘ Today for a privileged few the discipline can be taken for granted , and as they never sought for an art that was cold , mathematical and anti-plastic , wholly intellectual , the works which they offer us appeal to the lover of painting directly through the eye and the senses . |
| 5 | He never asked for money . |
| 6 | Werner 's " General " turned out to be the commander of the armed forces in southern Celebes — a figure whom we would normally have done our utmost to avoid , given his political power and our absence of filming permits , but he turned out to be an exuberantly friendly man who never asked for them . |
| 7 | He never asked for forgiveness . |
| 8 | ‘ God it was awful , ’ he said , and made them laugh and accept what he said , and Barnett never asked for the certificate this time . |
| 9 | And then after that , he never asked for her . |
| 10 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 11 | You never asked for me ? ’ |
| 12 | You never asked for one . |
| 13 | He never cared for me nor I do n't care for him . |
| 14 | ‘ I never cared for Medoc . |
| 15 | I never cared for results never cared for results at all . |
| 16 | I never cared for results never cared for results at all . |
| 17 | no , I never cared for them put your glasses on instead of squinting |
| 18 | He never charged for the rooms and the journalists repaid him by keeping their custom at the bar . |
| 19 | This combination of Infirmary League and Friendly Society was a good insurance against sickness but , of course , there were always those who never provided for the rainy day . |
| 20 | Our Dean drew the ice-free peg and never caught for the first hour , as I predicted . |
| 21 | This aspect became even more important after 1963 when public sector intervention took the form of the provision of mass housing ( 'large flatted estates of a form never built for the market' ; Dunleavy , 1981:1 ) on redeveloped inner sites and in inner-ring locales like Killing worth . |
| 22 | It seems hard to believe that we flower children of the 1960s and 1970s never doubted for a second that we would eventually find fulfilling jobs . |
| 23 | I spent so much effort and expense to outbid my rivals , I never stopped for one moment to consider if I really wanted the prize . |
| 24 | The humiliated Pernia never played for Argentina again and the normally partisan crowd jeered at the referee for dismissing Johnson . |
| 25 | ‘ I never played for England either . |
| 26 | John Scales never played for us though he was from Leeds , and Seaman never had a senior game for us though he was a trainee . |
| 27 | Mr Larwood , 88 , was shunned by the cricketing establishment for many years afterwards and never played for England again . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly , therefore , a man never noted for the quality of patience had rushed bullheaded on the opportunity offered by the accession of Mary . |
| 29 | Souness was still grumbling about the decisions that went against his team — the penalty that gave Coventry their first goal , the free-kick that led to their second , an offside flag that never came for the third and the sending off of Jamie Redknapp . |
| 30 | They never paid for the groceries . |