Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such is fame : our exploit brought us international mention with a few lines by the Canadian Press but our feat was not mentioned in Robert Ripley 's ‘ Believe It or Not ’ column , and we had never heard of the Guinness Book of Records in those early days . |
| 2 | A year ago most people on Merseyside had probably never heard of the Arkansas governor . |
| 3 | But Vienna proved to be the last summit for six years and SALT II was never ratified by the US Senate , for in December the Red Army invaded neighbouring Afghanistan in order to prop up a weak Marxist government . |
| 4 | Gloucester have never won at the Recreation Ground … the league champions look invincible … but that 's when the Kingsholm men are at their best … when nobody gives them a hope … |
| 5 | Perhaps the murkiest issue of all — certainly an issue never addressed by the Bush administration — is why the US , after paying Noriega $1.2 million during the 1980s , when it clearly knew that Panama — headquarters for the formidable US Army Southern Command ( USASC ) that monitors all events in Central and Latin America — was a conduit for drugs , turned so suddenly and harshly against Noriega . |
| 6 | He 'd never hankered after the travelling life . |
| 7 | No attempt had been made to secure the tape and its existence was never revealed to the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 8 | CDP participation in the 1970s discussions of this relationship , and notably of moves towards ‘ partnership in validation ’ , will feature in the next chapter , but it is important to note that the CDP , with an established office and secretariat , and the authority of the first in the field , was never matched by the Standing Conference of Principals and Directors of Colleges and Institutes in Higher Education . |
| 9 | She was never told by the London office or by Mary herself of the important part that Miss Read had played in the Tiller story . |
| 10 | One folly was so outlandish it never got past the planning stage — others are still fooling people to this day … |
| 11 | Viable counts of sulphate reducing bacteria were never found above the detection limit of 10 2 /g faeces in non-responders ( Table III ) . |
| 12 | Fogarty led all the way and was never troubled by the Dunlop duo behind him . |
| 13 | The Centre asked for two studies ; one on terms of survival , and one looking at the quality of life ( though the latter has never gone beyond the pilot stage ) . |
| 14 | We did n't know that we were asking for impossible things , because we had never worked in the record business before — and we 'd get them . |
| 15 | ( The Jetstreams were never delivered from the Radlett line , being finished off by Scottish Aviation at Prestwick . ) |
| 16 | The law of averages suggests it is Arsenal 's turn to beat their neighbours but the reality is they are weighed down by injury problems while Spurs , never beaten in the FA Cup at Wembley , look set to field their strongest side . |
| 17 | Even now , he had never returned to the shopping mall . |