Example sentences of "[noun] never [vb past] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The still-room people and the kitchen people never came in contact with the gentry , you see . |
| 2 | And victory never looked in doubt as he dominated throughout , making the fences seem little more than matchsticks . |
| 3 | A survey of college students showed that 51 per cent of men never dreamed in colour , while only 31 per cent of women never did . " |
| 4 | Back to the superbikes and Fogarty 's win never looked in doubt . |
| 5 | The latter example also shows the inversion of the subject and verb in the source marker — a form never found in conversation . |
| 6 | Cross-references forward , whether from OED to itself or from Supplement to itself , are either non-existent , inaccurate , or ( occasionally ) ghosts ( because the object of the cross-reference never materialized in print for some reason ) . |
| 7 | Phillip never talked in detail about the depth of his relationship with Marje . |