Example sentences of "he [was/were] never [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was never a help to his father , but even so … |
| 2 | A strong Calvinist , he was never a friend to the episcopate , and moved the cessation of business in response to the accusation of seditious speeches made by Bishop Richard Neile [ q.v. ] , once Salisbury 's chaplain , against the Commons in 1614 . |
| 3 | Yet the surviving archives of the three principal choral establishments there — New College , All Souls , and Magdalen College — indicate that he was never a member of the permanent staff of any of their chapel choirs . |
| 4 | In spite of changes in name and act , he was never a success as a performer , but became increasingly interested in the business of promotion and management . |
| 5 | He was never a man to be deprived of the sun and the soft wind in his face . |
| 6 | But he was never a man intent on building up a score . |
| 7 | Finch always maintained that he was never a hellraiser and that his image was wishful publicity by the press . |
| 8 | So far as we know he was never a merchant , and he never went on crusade , but had he been he would have experienced all the five ways in which travel fundamentally impinged on the folk of the twelfth century ; and if we consider the impact made by the wandering scholars and the growing universities , the flow of litigants and diplomats to and from the papal Curia , the countless pilgrims and pilgrimages , the crusades at their most popular , and the commercial revolution upon the world of the central Middle Ages — then a love of travel and a readiness to travel must be accounted one of the major catalysts of change . |
| 9 | ‘ He was never a groper . ’ |
| 10 | From 1828 until 1853 he was mathematics tutor of Wadham College , though he was never a fellow . |
| 11 | He goes on to explain that he was never a follower of Spinoza ( the seventeenth-century philosopher , who identified God with Nature ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Mark was my brother ; I know he had his faults , but he was never a liar . ’ |
| 13 | He was never a lover of practice . |
| 14 | He was never a teacher in a narrow pianistic sense , was never a mere driller of scales . |