Example sentences of "never [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other stories about Dic , Little Dick the Carpenter — how he never got to a rugby match because there were too many pubs on the way , how he was burnt all over in a pit explosion , wrapped in bandages so that only his eyes and nostrils showed through — and bathed slowly back to health by his daughters who poured olive oil over him all the time , how he took his daughter Cecilia ( Cis ) to eisteddfods because he loved to hear her sing but how she pleaded with him ‘ not to stop anywhere and not to leave her in the hall ’ . |
| 2 | In his final years he tried to revive his career in an American television series about martial arts called The Master ( 1986 ) but it failed and another series never got beyond the pilot stage . |
| 3 | The proposed million dollar match due in March between Monica Seles and Jimmy Connors , apparently never got beyond the talking stage . |
| 4 | Hawksmoor had been working for Wren since he was 18 and Castle Howard was very probably modelled on Wren 's proposed plan for Hampton Court ( which never got beyond the drawing board ) . |
| 5 | This in effect meant the delivery of only a handful of other lectures : circumstances ensured that no teacher at the College could expect to become knowledgeable on the diseases of farm animals , which practically never came into the College infirmary for attention . |
| 6 | He never attended worship , he never came to the Youth Hall . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The proposal to use nuclear-powered icebreaking supertankers ( the Arctic Pilot project ) to transport oil and gas from the Canadian Arctic fortunately never proceeded past the planning stage . |
| 9 | I made absolutely certain I never sent in a duff contract . |
| 10 | In spite of his gift to the sport , Keller was anxious not to abuse his status as President and never went to a rowing event unless invited . |
| 11 | But most failures — so far — have been firms that never went near the merger market . |
| 12 | Even further out , with less reason for antagonism towards search consultants but still known to bear malice , are the hopefuls who never appeared on the race card at all , who sent in their CVs and waited in vain for a response . |
| 13 | ‘ Luke got thrown out of the play and never appeared on the school stage again . ’ |