Example sentences of "never [vb past] [art] [noun sg] [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 To this end she never wasted a word or gesture and when she saw Wexford she neither greeted him nor even lifted her head , but said to one of her little girls :
2 He never lost the pride and pleasure in the tales of his deep , working , glittering-tongued Welsh past .
3 He never lost the affection and respect of the bank manager Fred Elt whose portrait he painted and with whom he occasionally dined at Elt 's basement flat in Gloucester Place , on one occasion taking Susan Einzig with him .
4 In the next 20 years the NHS did not escape criticism from academic Fabians but it never reached the volume and intensity of the criticism which , for example , social security and income maintenance attracted as they appeared to retreat further and further away from the principles of the Beveridge Report .
5 Rumours about that Van Wyk — and therefore such successful current coaches as Harry Viljoen of Transvaal and Natal 's Ian McIntosh — were not considered because they never wore the green and gold .
6 Except at the cinema , I never saw a man and woman kiss each other , until I was grown up . )
7 The church was therefore prepared to put its money where its mouth was : churchmen in Charles 's reign might complain bitterly of the economic burdens of military service and fiscal exactions borne by their particular churches , but they never questioned the right and duty of kings to impose these on the church at large in order to ensure the well-being of the Christian people .
8 M. André Simon , Boulestin 's compatriot and contemporary , writing two years ago of Boulestin 's rule that all wines young or old , red or white must be served in a decanter , recorded that " he never liked the shape and colour of wine bottles standing on the table : they were of the greatest use , of course , but their right place was the cellar or pantry " .
9 Circumstances had obliged him to sell out to three younger partners , but until they came he never had a telephone or typewriter .
10 Although most Tillers were spendthrifts and never had a ha'penny or cent to their names , Florence was a financial wizard .
11 And they certainly never considered the stress that world markets would put on staff in the Nineties and beyond .
12 As he never held a hospital or university appointment , his work was slow to gain recognition .
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