Example sentences of "[noun pl] never [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his eyes never left her distant , shadowed figure , seeing at once how slowly she moved , how awkwardly , hobbling down the steps one by one , stopping time and again to rest , her whole body crooked , one hand clutching the side rail tightly , as if she 'd fall without it . |
| 2 | The restored Stuarts also encouraged companies by giving them charters , and two or three trading companies did a lot to expand English interests , although settlement of land by commercial companies never regained its initial importance . |
| 3 | The Northumbrians never retrieved their pre-685 military position in North Britain ( cf. , HB ch. 57 ) . |
| 4 | Demands for licences grew steadily during the fourteenth century , but endowment of the religious orders never regained its earlier level , and alienations were increasingly directed to the establishment of chantries and secular institutions ; by mid-century almost as many licences were for the secular as for the religious churches , but this has more to do with declining enthusiasm for the vastly endowed monastic orders and the growing popular appeal of the mendicants who lived from alms , and not from farming extensive estates . |
| 5 | There were Chaloners who lived to be seventy or eighty , there were those who died in their youth or early manhood , and many others never reached their first birthday . |
| 6 | We were familiar with each breath , each movement , each thought , and his extramarital activities never diminished our mutual lust . |
| 7 | Despite this , Moseley 's skills never made him rich . |
| 8 | The Romans never took their intellectual relations with Hellenism so seriously . |