Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] never [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thinks that , unlike its competitors , British industry has never quite understood the nature , or the importance , of research and development . |
| 2 | She realised that the pain and shock of that loss had never truly healed . |
| 3 | Julius , who during their brief engagement and marriage had never even told her he loved her . |
| 4 | However , she did not realize that the old lady had never even heard about the family connection . |
| 5 | Unfortunately the wretched girl had never even turned up . |
| 6 | On his death-bed , George V visited a royal curse upon the town with his famous final utterance ‘ Bugger Bognor ! ’ , from which the place has never quite recovered . |
| 7 | Thirty-one of my trial team had never previously attempted to slim yet 25 of them said they lost inches from areas they considered a real problem and particularly wanted to reduce . |
| 8 | Gifted The mantle of captaincy has never really settled on Azharuddin 's shoulders for while he remains a gifted and wristy batsmen , he is a shy , sensitive person . |
| 9 | Well , there was a time when it was a bolt from the blue , yes , I mean I 've known for a week or two , but we were delighted to receive it , er we do n't er , it is something that we said months ago that we supported the N H S Lottery because we do feel that money can be raised in this way painlessly towards particularly research and the sorts of things that the N H S on the whole has never really supported fully . |
| 10 | ‘ Murtach has never really failed , so he does not know such things happen . ’ |
| 11 | In spite of our interest in island life , and all our new experiences there , my wife had never really settled down to the complete contrast in living conditions . |
| 12 | Gerald was always being chided for something or other : his wife had never entirely lost her Portuguese liking for matriarchal discipline , order and cleanliness — qualities that were not often found among the Husseys . |
| 13 | She shades her eyes to see better two people clutching each other in evident close camaraderie who to the best of her knowledge had never even met . |
| 14 | It 's a funny thing the way podoeroticism has never really caught on in the West , what with sex being so popular and all . |
| 15 | The relationship between the band and the paper has never completely recovered . |
| 16 | Henry VI , still less than a year old , already king of England , now assumed the crown of France , a position which his father had never quite achieved . |
| 17 | My own ‘ anthropological history ’ in this liminoid phase became extended over eight years , until 1974 , and not only gave me time to reflect on many of the controls we were required to impose , but also to consider the nature of the social harm these unworldly folk devils and ‘ drug fiends ’ were actually causing ; for established society has never really known how to handle the unworldly easily . |
| 18 | Yet this form of schooling has never really succeeded in England and has been surrounded by hostile controversy and apathy . |
| 19 | Kathie has never directly encountered prejudice . |
| 20 | The following might be regarded as excessive restrictions : ( 1 ) an attempt to prevent a qualified solicitor from setting up a specialist practice in a field in which his former firm has never before undertaken work and has no plans to start accepting instructions ; ( 2 ) an attempt to prevent an outgoing partner from accepting instructions from any person or firm ( whether or not a client or former client of his former firm ) within a prescribed area ; ( 3 ) a general area restraint where the outgoing partner 's former firm has its offices in a location where competition is already intense . |
| 21 | Now , however , the Coal Board took the view that as the Secretary of State had never formally ruled on the consent to demolish following the inquiry , they were not obliged to honour their undertaking . |
| 22 | No , her daughter had never before taken her child to the beach alone . |
| 23 | Arguments about merit have never really gone away , and many people have felt that the extra effort put in by the best students need to be recognised . |
| 24 | The principles here are clear , fully Catholic and yet in terms of pre-conciliar Roman theory revolutionary ( not so revolutionary in practice : some sacramental sharing had always continued in parts of the East where ecclesiastical reality had never quite caught up with the theory of ultramontanism ) . |
| 25 | In that case an advertising agency telephoned a transparency library with whom the agency had never previously dealt . |
| 26 | My mother , whose heart had never fully recovered from the shock of losing Tata , retired to the suburbs to live with Aunt Harriet in Romford . |
| 27 | It was a battle the like of which those present had never before witnessed . |
| 28 | Paul Biya did not appear in public for over six months , and his position has never fully recovered in spite of winning a new term in the March 1988 presidential election . |
| 29 | Now the name was not a famous one , the cloth merchant having lived his life in the comparative obscurity common to most of us , and my patient had never before visited that part of the country — and yet the details he unearthed coincided perfectly with the facts he had given me during his regression . |
| 30 | Foreign relations and international involvement have never wholly lost their sense of being essentially instrumental in nature . |