Example sentences of "[noun sg] never [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , the band never felt at ease on film , even straight filming of concert performances . |
| 2 | Sadly the planned improved Kick Off 2 cart never came to fruition . |
| 3 | He suspected a young lawyer , a man whose name never came to light , even in the subsequent trial . |
| 4 | My father never went to bed without supper , no matter what happened . |
| 5 | However , the promised Unix showcase at Comdex/Spring last week never came to fruition . |
| 6 | And victory never looked in doubt as he dominated throughout , making the fences seem little more than matchsticks . |
| 7 | There seemed only one way for the Druids to prevent their imminent destruction , and that was to ensure that the army never came within reach of them ; this could only be achieved either by strong enough resistance in the mountains of north-west Wales or by a serious insurrection deep within the Province . |
| 8 | Back to the superbikes and Fogarty 's win never looked in doubt . |
| 9 | The latter example also shows the inversion of the subject and verb in the source marker — a form never found in conversation . |
| 10 | [ Though well received by the public schools , the scheme never came into effect , mainly because of the unwillingness of either central government or LEAs to take responsibility for payment of the grants . ] |
| 11 | My dad never talked about appearance much , only to make a clinical/medical-type comment . |
| 12 | But the case never came to court . |
| 13 | Matthew Chieke was one of those charged with the bank raid , but that case never came to court . |
| 14 | The case never went to trial and was settled out of court for an undisclosed amount now known as the Wallis Foundation Fund , with which the Cezanne was purchased . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | In spite of this , Mahan wrote ‘ For twenty-two months Nelson 's fleet never went into port , at the end of that time , when the need arose to pursue an enemy for four thousand miles , it was found massed and in all respects perfectly prepared for so sudden and so distant a call . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ My mother never talked about money , you see . ’ |
| 18 | Mother never talked about sex . |
| 19 | In the 1870s the French conceived extravagant plans which included no less than the conquest of the Sahara , an impractical design never brought to fruition . |