Example sentences of "never [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a former member of his Household explained : ‘ He never expected this kind of reaction . |
| 2 | As for Brian Redhead , a BBC radio presenter who had the temerity to call him a conspiracy , ‘ His failure to apologise meant that he never got another interview with Mrs Thatcher as prime minister . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I also had to give up my part-time Communications course which the Jo'burg job was paying for , because the salary in Durban was much lower and my parents could n't help me when it was all they could do to meet Dad 's medical expenses , since he never made any sort of provision for the future . |
| 4 | He never lifted whole sections of design from antique buildings as Wilkins did , and as some architects are doing again in our own day , or squeezed his buildings into medieval or Jacobean plan forms : it would never have occurred to him that he should . |
| 5 | Consequently he never achieved any position of responsibility . |
| 6 | I never understood this kind of complaint — off side is n the rules so why not play by it . |
| 7 | he never took much part in college life and eventually became an object of derision among medical students , who called him ‘ Mummy Jones ’ . |
| 8 | With me being a football fan , Leeds Utd to be more specific , I never took much interest in tennis . |
| 9 | You never took that form to school . |
| 10 | ‘ You never saw any signs of jealousy or resentment of them ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , yes and yes , ’ said Sarah , ‘ but I never saw any signs of hatred . |
| 12 | It never gave large quantities of milk , but the milk was said to be richer than that of the well-known Suffolk Dun ( see Red Poll ) . |
| 13 | The Communist Party never had much influence on Tyneside other than among seamen . |
| 14 | It 's all so easy for him , perhaps that 's why he squandered his talent — he never had that period of garret starvation that seems to foster genius . ’ |
| 15 | Social workers say they never had enough evidence of maltreatment to go to court for a care order . |
| 16 | ‘ Never had any use for poetry myself , but I used to like that one . |
| 17 | By his fourth plea , the defendant pleaded that the plaintiff never had any cause of action against the defendant in respect of the £2,000 , the subject of the Exchequer proceedings , which the plaintiff , at the commencement of that action and thence until and at the time of the making of the alleged promise , well knew . |
| 18 | The fourth plea states that the plaintiff never had any cause of action against the defendant in respect of the subject-matter of the action in the Court of Exchequer , which he , the plaintiff , at the time of the commencement of the said action , and thence until the time of the making the promise in the first count mentioned , well knew . |
| 19 | The plea , in plain terms , avers that the plaintiff never had any cause of action , and he well knew it . |
| 20 | ‘ Never had any trouble with dragons after that . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I never had any trouble with George . |