Example sentences of "never [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.

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1 These detectives were never off their guard .
2 And Elinor was never off her guard .
3 Criticism and discussion must , therefore , be solicited and encouraged , but never for its own sake , and only up to the point that decision is taken .
4 She would shake her head and deftly speak of other matters , though never about her father 's past .
5 He could sometimes be induced to talk about his presidency of the Guernsey Cattle Society , but never about his presidency of the international tribunal .
6 ‘ They were never about his work , but about his health , ’ he said .
7 Equally dull rhetoric appears in : ( " Never during his life time though he were a hundred miles the other side of Rome in any circumstances would I take a mortal man to be my mate … " )
8 Our advice for the first launch is — hands together , arms outstretched ( but never above your head as is so often attempted by first time flyers ) and as the kite rises , sustain an even line tension .
9 He only drank when he was worried , she claimed , then he became quarrelsome , but never with his friends .
10 So she was ne er I was never under her feet .
11 So I was never under her feet or any of them sort of problems that a lot of people find .
12 Should God create another Eve and I another rib of , yet loss of thee would never from my heart .
13 Another regular complaint from journalists is that the PROs concerned are never in their offices the day after they have sent out an important mailing .
14 Never in their whole married life had she spoken like that before .
15 Handing out certificates recently at my adult education college in Wandsworth , I was enormously impressed by the number of special needs students who received one , who never in their lives thought that they would qualify for a certificate .
16 She 's been backed by the Life Cares organisation , which says killing patients is never in their best interests .
17 ‘ Christ ! ’ she said , and the next moment , forgetful of her own safety , she had Maggie in her arms , shushing and soothing as she had never in her life done before .
18 I mean , Diana herself has never in her lifetime uttered one statement that has been of any use to any member of the human race . ’
19 Her Aunt Elizabeth lived in a small house in the depths of the country near Hereford , and as she her self had never in her life been outside of Birmingham , the journey was like visiting a foreign country .
20 She had never in her life undressed in front of a man — not even a doctor .
21 And she meant it , for she liked her college room , she was even mildly proud of it , and the thought of entertaining Clelia in it did not alarm her , though she had a deep aversion to the notion of entertainment , and had never in her whole three years at University embarked on the ritual tea parties or more ambitious sherry parties that mark the social life of such establishments .
22 But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . "
23 Clara was staggered and bewitched ; she had never in her life seen anything like it .
24 Never in her life had she felt so sure of anyone , as she did then of this enchanted warrior woman .
25 He went into her giant bathroom to take his mind off things and stood there awhile between her mirrors , thinking not particularly of how he looked himself but mostly of the inflections that she had caught from Fred , and also of how it must feel to be this negligently perfect child , who had obviously never in her life spent herself combating a flaw .
26 Never in her whole life had she met anyone so self -centred .
27 Never in her entire life had she spoken to anyone the way she had just spoken to Nathan Bryce .
28 Never in her life had she felt less like eating than she did at this moment .
29 Charlotte had never in her life felt obliged to examine her relationships with anyone .
30 Never in her life had the penguin heard so many words .
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