Example sentences of "never [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I never passed through the guard , ’ said Harry perforce . |
| 2 | I never met with the fellow of her in my life . |
| 3 | Er we never expected from the Department of Transport and any minute book . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ God it was awful , ’ he said , and made them laugh and accept what he said , and Barnett never asked for the certificate this time . |
| 6 | I never got over the shock . |
| 7 | the shock of it never got over the shock of it though |
| 8 | SEAN HUGHES ( comedian ) : ‘ I never got over the fact that my penis looked like Bobby Charlton . |
| 9 | A series of ‘ Famous British Film Stars ’ of 1946 , now worth £5-£10 each , apparently never got off the ground . |
| 10 | In September , O'Brien called a meeting in an attempt to establish a Derry branch of the association but it never got off the ground ; indeed even at the height of the civil rights movement NICRA had branches in north and south County Derry but in the city itself the principal civil rights organisation was the DCAC , which although affiliated to NICRA , was completely autonomous . |
| 11 | The paper would need a minimum circulation of 300,000 to make money , and with an annual expenditure of £13.3 million would make an annual profit of £6.4 million if it reached a circulation of 500,000 But the idea never got off the ground . |
| 12 | There was some small group of Irish , bloody crackpots , who wanted to do it , but that never got off the ground . |
| 13 | It never got off the ground . |
| 14 | The project that never got off the ground may need redesigning . |
| 15 | The electronics and publishing projects never got off the ground . |
| 16 | Needless to say the project never got off the ground , but this blatant assumption that pop stars will automatically say yes leads to exactly the kind of pressure that causes charity-fatigue . |
| 17 | Many other industrial projects never got off the ground due to energy shortages , and Ghana has been forced to import power from the Ivory Coast . |
| 18 | With its varnished mahogany and gleaming brasswork fuselage it managed a few erratic hops but never got off the ground ! |
| 19 | And new Manager , Denis Smith , must have exploded at the way his defenders dillied and dallied and never got to the ball on time . |
| 20 | Mr Rooker said money from the fund ‘ simply never got to the people who needed it because it was n't publicised enough and because the regimental administrators were inefficient . |
| 21 | I never got to the end of the table . |
| 22 | He failed to turn up at all for one match , though discretion prevailed and that misdemeanour never got into the papers . |
| 23 | ‘ I never got into the rat-race — or the brat-race as it is now — because I never wanted to . |
| 24 | And he never got into the pits , so Les and he was er was a very fine Marxist that he he he could tell you anything you know about Marxism . |
| 25 | In his final years he tried to revive his career in an American television series about martial arts called The Master ( 1986 ) but it failed and another series never got beyond the pilot stage . |
| 26 | The proposed million dollar match due in March between Monica Seles and Jimmy Connors , apparently never got beyond the talking stage . |
| 27 | I never got beyond the moment he sets eyes on him , which happens at the top of the second page . |
| 28 | Hawksmoor had been working for Wren since he was 18 and Castle Howard was very probably modelled on Wren 's proposed plan for Hampton Court ( which never got beyond the drawing board ) . |
| 29 | She never got up the street , she , she , ai n't , could n't bike , he could n't bike , so I used to take the yeast and carry on with my round right the way down Soham Fen , Low Barn , Metton Cottages , that 's right in the middle of Fen , that used to , a farm used to belong to Mr er Sam then , you see , years ago and then when I used to come back , I used to have to call at Mrs and pick a loaf of bread up . |
| 30 | These were lean times for Spain 's biggest heroes — Jorge Martinez suffered technical frustrations in the 125 series , Alex Criville took much of the year to get up to speed on a 250 , while Sito Pons and Juan Garriga never got near the front of a 500 GP . |