Example sentences of "never [prep] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way was also clear to holy orders and advancement in the Church ; this was never of much appeal to Wordsworth , who regarded compulsory chapel as an abomination . |
| 2 | The kings of England continued to be rulers of Hanover for another seventy years , until the crowns were divided upon the accession of Queen Victoria because only men could rule in Hanover , but after 1760 the interests of Hanover were never of such importance in deciding British policy . |
| 3 | Prior to my fifteenth birthday I had asked for train sets and cowboy suits for Xmas and birthdays , and until I was eighteen I spent Saturday afternoons making tea and sandwiches for my Mam and some girls from school as they talked endlessly of ‘ fellas ’ and clothes and make-up — subjects never of any interest to me . |
| 4 | ‘ He came out with bits of information that were never of any use to anyone : But Ken could turn any conversation into an erudite discussion — and also make jokes about them . ’ |
| 5 | Song more plaintive and reedier than Skylark 's , and in shorter phases , often mimetic , sometimes delivered in air , but never with soaring display of Skylark . |
| 6 | absolute nonsense and he took an accolade for that , when in fact , it was never under any threat from European legislation , it was our own British Food Act , and that , our own interpretation of European war , that has brought the threat to us . |
| 7 | A special relationship between the two groups remained , and the physical conditions of the Greek theatre ( as it subsequently evolved ) continued to ensure that the two groups were never in actual opposition to each other . |
| 8 | His majorities were not always as big as he would have liked , notably in 1923 , his first election as Prime Minister , when he rashly asked for 10,000 and got 6000 ; but he was never in remote danger of losing the seat . |
| 9 | I was always wanted for something , and I was never in one place for too long . |
| 10 | ‘ How will you ever meet a prospective father for your children if you 're never in one place for more than a week or two ? ’ |
| 11 | But Devoy was never in such danger of losing as Jansher Khan in the men 's event , against Rodney Martin , the world champion from Australia . |
| 12 | Never in this century at least had so much respect been paid to mammary development . |
| 13 | ‘ He simply devoted himself to the sport and was never in any doubt about what he wanted to be , ’ adds Sid . |
| 14 | More than forty years later , the Cornish and De von Post put me in touch with one of the other boys from Black Rock , Stewart Barr-Hall , who confirmed that we were never in any kind of danger . |
| 15 | To say that my first game of the new season was out of the ordinary would be a massive understatement — never in 25 seasons of refereeing have I had to learn and interpret 19 law changes and then get to apply them first time up in a game in France between two clubs from England and Scotland ! |
| 16 | I was used to long-distance safety in my work , and in the past to many physical dangers , but never to this sort of risk . |
| 17 | But erm it 's quite hard if you 've been up a lot at night and then you have to go and do the whole of the next day of work , but fortunately our rotas are n't too bad so we 're never on two nights in a row compared with the hospital which was quite a lot harder work . |
| 18 | Never at any time in his career did he set out solely to defend . |
| 19 | Stirling had about 65 per cent of the play , yet Kenny Milne , the Heriot 's captain , admitted that never at any stage during the game had he felt his side were not going to win . |