Example sentences of "[noun sg] never [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fighting never stopped from the time I got to Los Angeles , but no one gained ground . |
| 2 | Comacina never recovered from the beating . |
| 3 | For reasons best known to the fuel companies , the Gulf crisis never turned into an oil crisis , although petrol prices generally leap up and down quicker than a Tory backbencher during a Neil Kinnock speech if a dealer on the Amsterdam spot market so much as sneezes over his computer screen . |
| 4 | My father never went to the cinema because the technicolour was bad for his epilepsy . |
| 5 | Comfort for Beleevers , a pastoral treatise never intended for the press , provoked a storm by declaring that God was in part the author of the sins of the godly . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly , therefore , a man never noted for the quality of patience had rushed bullheaded on the opportunity offered by the accession of Mary . |
| 7 | ( Amaranth never travelled without a copy of the Good Food Guide . ) |
| 8 | The Callaghan government never recovered from the sense of ungovernability and social chaos heralded by the winter of discontent . |
| 9 | His health never recovered from an infection incurred in 1848 whilst he was dissecting a corpse ; he committed suicide in the following year bizarre incident took place in the life of the composer , Hector Berlioz ( 1803–69 ) , whose first wife was the Irish actress , Harriet Smithson . |
| 10 | Then Nigel got injured so the thing never came to a head . |
| 11 | Needless to say the project never got off the ground , but this blatant assumption that pop stars will automatically say yes leads to exactly the kind of pressure that causes charity-fatigue . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The paper would need a minimum circulation of 300,000 to make money , and with an annual expenditure of £13.3 million would make an annual profit of £6.4 million if it reached a circulation of 500,000 But the idea never got off the ground . |
| 14 | Den suffered terribly from stage fright and had some real moments of crisis which of course never showed from the front . |
| 15 | Critics it that time excluded authors inconvenient for their picture of a general return to tradition : Todd himself has little to say about authors such as B. S. Johnson and Christine Brooke-Rose , mostly on the grounds that they belong to a counter-cultural avant-garde never identified with the mainstream of British writing . |
| 16 | Grandad never went near a pub because of what he said they put in the beer . |