Example sentences of "was never " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was clearly a need to adapt my lifestyle , but playing the role of victim was never among my plans . |
| 2 | The ultimate synthesis of a design was never revealed in a flash ; rather he approached it with infinite precautions , stalking it , as it were , now from one point of view , now from another , and always in fear lest a premature definition might deprive it of something of its total complexity . |
| 3 | He was never to say hello to you , and he once said that he would not be interested in his child ‘ until he can go out shooting with me ’ . |
| 4 | And the family was never heard of again . |
| 5 | The biography suggests that Eliot was never to lose the divided sense of his youth that human life is futile and meaningless — that man is ‘ a finite piece of reasonable misery ’ , in the words of William Drummond of Hawthornden , a good poet who was also a great plagiarist , and a great seeker of shelter in books — but that an eternal order might be felt for , or invented . |
| 6 | There is a poem by his friend Philip Larkin , entitled ‘ Letter to a Friend about Girls ’ , which was never published during Larkin 's lifetime but was retrieved for the Collected Poems of 1988 . |
| 7 | Your heart was never in it , I said to him later . |
| 8 | That it was never on . |
| 9 | I was never in any hurry though , he wrote . |
| 10 | But he was never saying to himself until one moment in the past that it was much peculiar that a girl as pretty and as fashionable with her peroxide hair as Jilly Jonathan was carrying on holiday a big , crocodile-skin handbag . |
| 11 | He was never saying to himself in that heavy bag what should there be ? ’ |
| 12 | My mother came up to London the very next day and told me that I was never to go home again , I was never to contact Sarah again and , above all , I was never , ever to see John again . |
| 13 | My mother came up to London the very next day and told me that I was never to go home again , I was never to contact Sarah again and , above all , I was never , ever to see John again . |
| 14 | My mother came up to London the very next day and told me that I was never to go home again , I was never to contact Sarah again and , above all , I was never , ever to see John again . |
| 15 | I was never any good at lecturing so it 's nice to be good at something . ’ |
| 16 | You see , said Lucy , I was never in love with you . |
| 17 | I was never in love with you . |
| 18 | I was never in love with you . |
| 19 | Jay 's life had not exactly prepared her for falling In Love , still less for I was never in love with you . |
| 20 | He grew up that day , and never again saw his father as a being who could do anything and was never at a loss . |
| 21 | He was never bothered to marry , or to do anything else very much , they say . |
| 22 | He who had performed for royalty , dined with national presidents , rubbed shoulders with the greatest names in the world of art and theatre , film and music , became a delightful companion and — it was never absent — a solicitous host . |
| 23 | There was never any sense of deprivation , but ‘ frugality ’ ( Leonard 's word ) was definitely part of the family 's style . |
| 24 | The loss was irreplaceable , and the pain was never forgotten , even if stoically shouldered . |
| 25 | The buildings and the scripture-readings he loved , especially its evocative music ; but he was never conscious of ‘ surrendering my heart to worship , ’ only conscious that therein was ‘ the tree of life , for all who follow the path . ’ |
| 26 | Leonard was never arrogant , but he was — as Pierre Berton once remarked on Canadian television , ‘ a very confident young man . ’ |
| 27 | It was never different . |
| 28 | She was never tired till past midnight . |
| 29 | The concentration on the subjective nature of experience made clear the logical privacy , and hence non-physicality , of sense experience in a way in which it was never made clear within the classical and scholastic traditions . |
| 30 | I was never happy all the time , but i could get no character and could not get out of the life . |