Example sentences of "never [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was advised to ‘ keep a low profile ’ in future but was never reprimanded for her conduct . |
| 2 | The Video book was never intended for broadcast ; it is made from library film footage transferred to disc and tape for video issue , and aimed at the relatively limited number of people who will want to buy or hire it . |
| 3 | The middle-class children 's toy is never intended for mere amusement or pleasure ; its prime interest is its educational value , the child must absorb the toy as a challenge , something from which it will learn in order to improve itself . |
| 4 | Her mizzen mast was gone , her sprit was gone , the mainmast was never intended for climbing and Tilda sat where there was , apparently , nowhere to sit . |
| 5 | A Home Office spokesman said : ‘ It is an internal document and was never intended for publication . |
| 6 | She wondered why Seb had never fallen for her . |
| 7 | Finally , children are never punished for disobedience . |
| 8 | Luckily for her , she had a clever lawyer at her trial , and was never punished for the murder . |
| 9 | So , as Harriet Ryley reports , he never knew of , and was never honoured for the vital role his plane played in the Second World War . |
| 10 | Authority was never given for the benefit of the person in authority , but only as a tool to serve those under that authority . |
| 11 | So self-absorbed was she that she never considered for one minute that her words might have hurt him in exchange . |
| 12 | Ho 's biographer insists that he was never blamed for the excesses ; the people distinguished between their revered leader and his ‘ entourage ’ . |
| 13 | I was always Bachelor No.2 and I was never picked for a date . ’ |
| 14 | A top class bowler , he was never picked for his country because , allegedly he wrote quickly , of comments made to Don Bradman during a state match in 1946 when Cec thought , several times , he had dismissed The Don . |
| 15 | The posters were fixed at night and the culprits were never caught — or , more likely , never looked for by a police force who enjoyed the joke as much as the rest of the city . |
| 16 | I have never wished for power . |
| 17 | It scared her , but as she glanced secretly across at the face she had never forgotten for one moment she realised she was more excited than scared . |
| 18 | Suddenly there was work for everybody and the deaf community took full advantage of this change of climate , as reported in the 1944 annual report : The effect of the war on industry has given the deaf and dumb opportunities such as they had never enjoyed for many years and it is with great pleasure that the committee places on record the excellent work the deaf Have done . |
| 19 | The upward trend in the numbers of unemployed getting supplementary benefit , for example , continued in the 1980s ; the numbers trebled until two-thirds of all the unemployed received this benefit , despite the fact that it was never designed for them . |
| 20 | Additional supplies of water are being actively sought , but the simple truth is that the Basingstoke Canal was never designed for the types and levels of boating some people dream of . |
| 21 | And frankly the tubes were never designed for that kind of service . ’ |
| 22 | And frankly the tubes were never designed for that kind of service . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 24 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 25 | Not only have the people never voted for the Prime Minister at the ballot box : they have consistently and persistently voted against him at the ballot box . |
| 26 | And , of course , Rune Christensen had never supposed for one moment that his orders would be forgotten or disobeyed ! |
| 27 | ‘ The spirits we invoke are never trapped for eternity , ’ Apanage said , smiling sweetly at Dauntless . |
| 28 | The other embarrassing fact was that MI6 never suspected for one moment that Blake was a spy . |
| 29 | Seawitch is obviously very special to you , and I 've never crewed for a world-famous yachtsman before . ’ |
| 30 | About this time I noticed that those crews who consistently got aiming point pictures on the bomb plots issued by HQ Bomber Command after each raid were never selected for PFF . |