Example sentences of "it [verb] never really [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time , as I recall , it was generally thought that Leavis had had the better of things , partly because he made his a personal attack , and dealt Snow 's reputation as a novelist , which was then high , a blow from which it has never really recovered . |
| 2 | As a proper noun standing for the state of being modern it has never really caught on as a popular word in everyday speech . |
| 3 | Since the failure of ZTT and Sputnik particularly , it has never really seemed likely that our own spiky tarts could share the limelight with the outright MOR . |
| 4 | But it has never really shown that it has any new ideas about where it should end up . |
| 5 | It had never really taken to the concept of death . |
| 6 | It had never really occurred to me to put things in those terms but I can see what he meant and to an extent he was partly right . |