Example sentences of "never [vb past] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The losers , let us remind ourselves , are the old , the sick , the jobless , the low paid , the homeless and badly housed , the ill-educated , the deprived , the discriminated-against — that third of our society that never shared in the maldistributed prosperity of the Thatcher years , and will at best gain little , at worst lose further , in John Major 's ‘ classless ’ Britain . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He never played in the same pub twice in the same month ; even so , word got around among the regulars . |
| 4 | All too often records of women , whether mistress of the house or maid servant , are lost or never existed in the first place . |
| 5 | I never knew in the first place ! ’ |
| 6 | In fact , Donaldson and Balfour , and nearly all the researchers who followed them , gave children questions with more on one occasion , and questions with less on another , so the two terms never appeared in the same session or the same block . |
| 7 | Fear of losing what we never had in the first place . |
| 8 | He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper . |
| 9 | ‘ In the end she had to realise she could n't manipulate me — that I did n't love her and never had in the true sense of the word . |
| 10 | He never slept in the same place , and his meals were prepared mostly by women he trusted — his partner , Vicky Amado and her mother . |
| 11 | Many stores have run out of vacuum cleaners — and hundreds are being offered in newspaper small ads at a bargain £60 as shoppers try to sell cleaners they never wanted in the first place . |