Example sentences of "never [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bob Fitzsimmons , known as ‘ Fitz ’ in boxing circles , was the only English world heavyweight champion , though he never fought in England . |
| 2 | He never fought in his life . |
| 3 | That never arose in Gillick 's case , the nearest approach to it being the proposition , accepted by all parties , that the court had power to override any minor 's consent ( not refusal ) to accept treatment . |
| 4 | The losers , let us remind ourselves , are the old , the sick , the jobless , the low paid , the homeless and badly housed , the ill-educated , the deprived , the discriminated-against — that third of our society that never shared in the maldistributed prosperity of the Thatcher years , and will at best gain little , at worst lose further , in John Major 's ‘ classless ’ Britain . |
| 5 | It even staged the most expensive gimmick of all , building the House for Lovers in a park in the city , a Mackintosh design never realised in his own lifetime . |
| 6 | Old Eugene had never worked in his life due to what he said was a bad heart , but he never lacked in daring and was never afraid to take a gamble . |
| 7 | He had experimented in administering the powder to about fifty people over a period of five years ‘ and never failed in the cure ’ , except in some cases of severe or chronic ague , which required the addition of some grains of quinine . |
| 8 | Instead I 've been thrust into the sort of social whirl I never experienced in Nottingham — or in London , for that matter . ‘ |
| 9 | He never peed in front of other men . |
| 10 | The architecture I sought never materialised in any of my compositions . |
| 11 | The architecture I sought never materialised in any of my compositions . |
| 12 | They never read in anything longer than ten-minute sessions . |
| 13 | With the current retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art , which runs until 14 February , 1993 , the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat has received the attention that even this highly promoted artist never got in his lifetime . |
| 14 | ‘ But you never got in touch with me after I left … ’ |
| 15 | I never got in that deep . |
| 16 | Funny how that never got in any of the papers , is n't it ? |
| 17 | like to look after my mother , er she was one , and she died now erm she died two years ago , I think she was one of the first to go and er , the other one they fetched him out of the street the chap then they corresponded with him up to the war but , but after that , they , I do n't know whether they stopped writing because of the war , I do n't know , but they never , never got in touch with them never again so |
| 18 | Well she never got in contact with me again . |
| 19 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |
| 20 | Somehow , in the confusion of rapid troop movements , El Cid never succeeded in joining with the royal army , though he certainly attempted I to do so . |
| 21 | Research stressed political and administrative factors in isolation and never succeeded in analysing the way local politics are linked to wider social and economic processes . |
| 22 | It faced hostility from Labour leaders , and never succeeded in gaining an electoral or industrial base . |
| 23 | Notwithstanding these comforting words , Gerald Ford never succeeded in establishing a productive relationship with the legislative branch . |
| 24 | But the mention of Wilde also serves to remind us that social purity never succeeded in totally silencing its opponents . |
| 25 | It meant that Wexford , once again showing bad finishing , never succeeded in going in front during the half . |
| 26 | He never lived in Eaton Square again . |
| 27 | WILLIAM SHAWCROSS , opposite page , never lived in Vietnam , but went there for The Sunday Times six times between 1972 and 1983 . |
| 28 | The sureness with which I carry out all motions on this return journey , the knowledge that is part of the recognition , overwhelmingly convinces me , in the dream and on waking , that I have often , often been there , although , as you know , I never lived in the country as a child , and all the lore that I needed for my little articles on Nature was garnered later from various sources . |
| 29 | But those who dug the gold never lived in these fine houses for they were African slaves . |
| 30 | It was , said the Illustrated London News of the time , a ‘ well-organised community never equalled in the Utopias of philosophy ’ . |