Example sentences of "[be] never [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were never about his work , but about his health , ’ he said . |
| 2 | These detectives were never off their guard . |
| 3 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 4 | And Elinor was never off her guard . |
| 5 | He qualified with Deloittes purely as a step into industry : ‘ Public practice was never on my agenda , ’ he says . |
| 6 | for me to sign , I said I 'm sorry I 'm not signing them and I would n't sign any of them and he went back and he said alright then we 'll leave it in your husband 's name , I said yes you 'd better had cos he still owns the house , yet all those bills have come through , I 've had water rates come through in my name , I 've had the electricity come through it 's in my name , the only one bill that was never in his name , never has been is the telephone and that 's included |
| 7 | Although it was never in his time subjected to the trial of a major war , it was given one partial blooding . |