Example sentences of "never [vb pp] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is an interesting thought that had John Ellicott not donated one of his magnificent clocks to mark his benefaction , the greed of a contract thief nearly 250 years later would have never taken place — and my humble tribute to this great gentleman , philanthropist and scientist , would never have been built . |
| 2 | Had this differentiation never taken place the result would be something inconceivably horrible , an amorphous mass of cells with no identity at all . |
| 3 | There are those today who may be said to be living as though Pentecost had never taken place . |
| 4 | The proposed conjuring had never taken place . |
| 5 | What … has never taken place is an epistemological critique at the most fundamental level of the connection between the development of a historicism which has expanded and developed enough to include antithetical attitudes such as ideologies of Western imperialism and critiques of imperialism on the one hand , and on the other , the actual practice of imperialism by which the accumulation of territories and population , the control of economies , and the incorporation and homogenisation of histories are maintained . |
| 6 | The World Cup has never taken place in Oslo ( see altitude training ) . |
| 7 | The conversation had never taken place . |
| 8 | I took this threat rather lightly and for good reason , because some fifteen minutes later he was on the telephone to me talking about a completely different matter , as though the previous conversation had never taken place . |
| 9 | Harbury pretended the scene had never taken place . |
| 10 | It was possible to believe that the sale and all the unpleasantness which had followed it had never taken place . |
| 11 | It will be as if this conversation had never taken place . ’ |
| 12 | He stared up and down the street in incredulity as he watched the finely dressed women going about their daily tasks , as if a world war had never taken place . |