Example sentences of "never [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word . |
| 2 | But it is an astonishing fact , a revelation both of his independent power of creating an ordered system and of his limitations of vision , that in this work he never once referred to the work of his predecessor . |
| 3 | In terms of Israeli-US relations , the issue was so potentially divisive that it had been largely ignored ; the issue never formally arose during the whole of US President Reagan 's eight years in office . |
| 4 | There was , he said , ‘ no interest whatsoever ’ to the extent that : ‘ When I left junior school , they [ his surrogate parents ] never even came to the school to see about it . |
| 5 | I never even consented to the hotel , did I ? |
| 6 | He never quite got over the sense of being a boy in the presence of an adult . |
| 7 | By the time the fleet of ambulances arrived , Elfman had metamorphosized from popular hero to universal laughing-stock and he never fully recovered from the experience . |