Example sentences of "[conj] never [vb past] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a term that never pleased its membership anyway . |
| 2 | Margaret Stanhope saw by the watch that never left his wrist that their unromantic interlude would soon be drawing to a close . |
| 3 | In ex-army gear I would n't be seen , as long as I kept still , sitting on my hands , pale face buried in a heather clump , but those long heads that rose between rasping bites of coarse grass had twitching noses that never stopped their search for the enemy — a very efficient sort of olfactory radar . |
| 4 | But no cries came to them there on the terrace , the darkness lit by the moon , the bright stars spread like a net across a sky that never lost its blueness , the scented tapers burning between the statuary of the amorous god . |
| 5 | As it was he was still asleep upstairs and never saw his dad bury him … and I could bawl unseen to my heart 's content . |
| 6 | The men were sullen and never met his eye ; but someone had to organise them , and no-one cared to oppose him . |
| 7 | His wife , Paulina , recognises him , by his voice , as the man who tortured her 15 years ago while playing the Schubert song of the title ( she was blindfolded and never told his name ) . |
| 8 | But , on other occasions Laura could laugh at herself just as easily because she was constantly amused by the transience of fame and never took her public for granted . |
| 9 | Ruysch , a member of the Royal Society , devised an arterial technique for human embalming ; although a master of the art he was extremely secretive and never divulged his recipe . |
| 10 | Wishing she 'd kept her mouth shut and never mentioned her need of some new clothes , Laura found herself being dragged , willy-nilly , towards the lifts . |
| 11 | She wrote very fast , for many hours , and never put her pen down once . |
| 12 | His mother was equally committed to the value of education , but never imposed her will with such harshness . |
| 13 | I was weighed once a week , but never told my weight . |
| 14 | No , John insisted , I must come home , and home he went , but never told his father about the experience . |
| 15 | At the final GP he had to finish second to clinch the title but never took his Repsol Honda higher than third in the most crucial race of his life . |
| 16 | The tempi are always marvellous and the colouring , from a small group of strings , keyboard instruments and trumpet , is wonderfully subtle — Crispian Steele-Perkins 's trumpet brought clear , clean edges to the sound but never bellowed its message , and David Watkin 's cello continuo seemed to stream in long , elegant curves . |
| 17 | The CUC varied in activity and strength and evolved with various modifications in constitutions and structure , but never lost its independence . |
| 18 | Perhaps the classic case of this sort was William Foot Whyte 's study Street Comer Society where he became a quasi-gang member but never lost his status of researcher . |
| 19 | Even when she later encountered more difficulties , she tried all sorts of positions , but never changed her grip on the hammer . |
| 20 | He rejected these criticisms but never changed his position . |