Example sentences of "never [vb past] in [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He never fought in his life . |
| 2 | With the current retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art , which runs until 14 February , 1993 , the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat has received the attention that even this highly promoted artist never got in his lifetime . |
| 3 | But you never believed in her Will , did you ? |
| 4 | The orderly American " dating " we saw in films or heard about in pop songs never happened in my adolescence . |
| 5 | It never happened in my time . ’ |
| 6 | Friendships made in this country were warmly reciprocated by the Silvers in their beautiful old house in Mt Vernon Street in Boston , where they lived an elegant and ‘ simple ’ life : they never owned a car , and never cooked in their kitchen ; all meals except breakfast were eaten in restaurants . |
| 7 | Why , Mamma , I could astonish you with a great many words you never heard in your life . |
| 8 | He was himself forced to remain in England to defend his interests and never settled in his colony ; he appointed first his brother Leonard [ q.v. ] and then his second son Charles to the post of governor . |
| 9 | For example , despite horrendous pressures for short-term earnings after the acquisition of Conoco , the Dupont company never wavered in its support of its superb research department even though many of the targets and pay offs lay far in the future . |
| 10 | Perhaps the one aristocrat that felt the greatest affinity with his fellow deaf was Lord Carbery , who was born deaf and never spoke in his life . |
| 11 | The crosses in the competing behaviour boxes show that during the baseline week he never stayed in his bed until 7am . |
| 12 | As he grew he fought the temptation of sin in his body , and felt the pain of separation in his heart , but he never faltered in his faithfulness to his heavenly Father . |
| 13 | His harmonic conception , founded on the example of Clifford Brown and Freddie Hubbard , was unalloyed bop , and as such derivative , but he played with great facility and imagination within those boundaries , and never faltered in his articulation , however fast the tempo or complex the harmonic sequence . |