Example sentences of "[verb] never [adv] leave " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had all been a dream ; perhaps she 'd never even left it . |
| 2 | When they returned , having taken in a fair part of Sutherland , they swore that their feet had never once left Ross-shire soil . |
| 3 | This once powerful man was so implanted in their lives that they had never really left Great Meadow , in spite of jobs and marriages and children and houses of their own in Dublin and London . |
| 4 | In the sense of their access to political power it was not so much a case that women were ‘ returned ’ to the family since they had never really left it to go out to get power — rather they had traditionally exercised power , if at all , by virtue of their familial positions and as the public and private spheres were separated , women were left behind . |
| 5 | The post-1950 returnees were joined by some who had never before left the villages . |
| 6 | Grant never really left . |
| 7 | Even though they may have worked and set up home separately , they have never quite left the role of dependent daughter . |