Example sentences of "[coord] never [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 All too often records of women , whether mistress of the house or maid servant , are lost or never existed in the first place .
2 The Holy Roman Empire , of Charlemagne , of the Ottonian emperors , through to the Hohenstaufens , was to be seen in all seriousness as the legitimate heir of ‘ the Augustan peace ’ : a dispensation which , though seldom or never actualized through the last five centuries , must be held in mind as the one and only imaginable harmonizing of Church and State , of religion and politics , at least throughout Europe .
3 ‘ In the end she had to realise she could n't manipulate me — that I did n't love her and never had in the true sense of the word .
4 I grabbed the fiver and ran and never returned to the casino again .
5 Coleridge lived in London , and never returned to the North of England , so that meetings only took place on rare occasions .
6 And new Manager , Denis Smith , must have exploded at the way his defenders dillied and dallied and never got to the ball on time .
7 It was true that Conchis was a recluse and never came to the village , but that he had been a collaborationist was a lie .
8 He had experimented in administering the powder to about fifty people over a period of five years ‘ and never failed in the cure ’ , except in some cases of severe or chronic ague , which required the addition of some grains of quinine .
9 ‘ During our Everest expedition in 1953 we had vast quantities of firewood at base camp and never thought about the problems , but environmental consciousness has grown enormously over the last 30 years or so . ’
10 ‘ I telephoned the Blackpool office up to five times a day and never talked to the same person twice .
11 Our Dean drew the ice-free peg and never caught for the first hour , as I predicted .
12 Marx started out as a Young Hegelian in the early 1840s and never threw off the underlying presuppositions of Hegelian rationalism .
13 ‘ Luke got thrown out of the play and never appeared on the school stage again . ’
14 With its varnished mahogany and gleaming brasswork fuselage it managed a few erratic hops but never got off the ground !
15 Leary belonged to that second string of artists , very good but never thrust into the public consciousness .
16 By Prince Regent , out of a mare by Run The Gantlet , he has a flat race pedigree but never ran on the level .
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