Example sentences of "never [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Against the advice of their hosts , they ventured into regions of mountain and marsh that occasioned difficulties never encountered in the well-drained chalklands of the Pays de Caux , and returned with an altered view of the country in whose service they had placed themselves . |
| 2 | His charges never suffered from the normal ailments of the young ; no scour , no joint ill , no pneumonia . |
| 3 | Marx started out as a Young Hegelian in the early 1840s and never threw off the underlying presuppositions of Hegelian rationalism . |
| 4 | It had never been a homogeneous state , more a collection of dynastic holdings , and its ruling caste never subscribed to the liberal notions of the Enlightenment or the French Revolution . |
| 5 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |
| 6 | He never spoke to the other boys , and they never spoke to him . |
| 7 | He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper . |