Example sentences of "never [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The losers , let us remind ourselves , are the old , the sick , the jobless , the low paid , the homeless and badly housed , the ill-educated , the deprived , the discriminated-against — that third of our society that never shared in the maldistributed prosperity of the Thatcher years , and will at best gain little , at worst lose further , in John Major 's ‘ classless ’ Britain . |
| 2 | But in spite of her enthusiasm , she never tumbled to the silent response which greeted her each time she told the story . |
| 3 | Yet she was clearly not a European State , and she never became during the eighteenth century completely incorporated into the European diplomatic system . |
| 4 | Tarkovsky : although Italian-funded , his films never pandered to the vacuous pan-European market |
| 5 | She never got to the expensive school . |
| 6 | The Lisburn teacher coaches Churches League third division side Village Star , a team who have never won a trophy and , until this year , never got past the second round of junior soccer 's top competition . |
| 7 | Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ . |
| 8 | He sporadically published a newsletter about rare firearms , collected guns himself , and was the proud owner of a decrepit fishing boat that was called Bronco-Buster in honour of the Giants ' Superbowl victory , though the Maggot himself never referred to the beaten team as the Denver Broncos , but always and ever as the Denver Fairies . |
| 9 | You stood in the dark watching the glow and the flare of fireworks , and it never occurred to the other people to invite you in , and you could n't ask . |
| 10 | That state of affairs never occurred under the previous system . |
| 11 | This combination of Infirmary League and Friendly Society was a good insurance against sickness but , of course , there were always those who never provided for the rainy day . |
| 12 | Our Dean drew the ice-free peg and never caught for the first hour , as I predicted . |
| 13 | Against the advice of their hosts , they ventured into regions of mountain and marsh that occasioned difficulties never encountered in the well-drained chalklands of the Pays de Caux , and returned with an altered view of the country in whose service they had placed themselves . |
| 14 | ‘ I never played alongside the new , younger lads in the present team . |
| 15 | He never played in the same pub twice in the same month ; even so , word got around among the regulars . |
| 16 | His charges never suffered from the normal ailments of the young ; no scour , no joint ill , no pneumonia . |
| 17 | Souness was still grumbling about the decisions that went against his team — the penalty that gave Coventry their first goal , the free-kick that led to their second , an offside flag that never came for the third and the sending off of Jamie Redknapp . |
| 18 | Later , in a speech at Warsaw University , the Prince spoke with admiration of the Polish people 's struggle and talked to the veterans of the uprising in which people took to the streets against the Germans , expecting help which never came from the nearby Russian army . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ I knew we was onto a good 'un when we comes to Sinkport , but I never guessed as the old scallywag 'imself 'ud be 'ere . |
| 21 | Marx started out as a Young Hegelian in the early 1840s and never threw off the underlying presuppositions of Hegelian rationalism . |
| 22 | Highly paid male employment re-emerged during the war and remained in the post-war boom , but women never retreated to the domestic sphere after 1945 . |
| 23 | All too often records of women , whether mistress of the house or maid servant , are lost or never existed in the first place . |
| 24 | Leary belonged to that second string of artists , very good but never thrust into the public consciousness . |
| 25 | It had never been a homogeneous state , more a collection of dynastic holdings , and its ruling caste never subscribed to the liberal notions of the Enlightenment or the French Revolution . |
| 26 | Basil built up a strong healthy tradition in Primary Art in West Riding schools , slowly and firmly , and in so doing never worked against the natural grain of childhood . |
| 27 | The strained atmosphere never survived beyond the first trickling bouquet from the roasting bird , stuffed pot-bellied with chestnuts . |
| 28 | ‘ I telephoned the Blackpool office up to five times a day and never talked to the same person twice . |
| 29 | But from when she had been sixteen and had left the Dame School and stepped right into the home life above the shop , it had been borne into her that marriage was a humdrum affair : two people lived together , apparently happy , yet went their own ways , as shown by her parents ; they did n't think alike , yet they did n't argue ; they never laughed at the same things , nor did local or national events affect them in the same way . |
| 30 | It might if dust never gathered on the old photo albums full of the ex and I whooping it up in Corfu circa 1980 . |