Example sentences of "never [vb past] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The sureness with which I carry out all motions on this return journey , the knowledge that is part of the recognition , overwhelmingly convinces me , in the dream and on waking , that I have often , often been there , although , as you know , I never lived in the country as a child , and all the lore that I needed for my little articles on Nature was garnered later from various sources . |
| 3 | Greying a little at the temples , Leonard unconsciously confirms why he is labelled one of Canada 's sexiest men , a handsome and elegant man with dark eyes ( they are said to be green , but that never showed in the light of Montreal , nor in its wintry sunshine ) . |
| 4 | The looser structure of many Languedocian and meridional towns , with their consuls and syndics , never developed in the south-west , and from 1261 onwards the tendencies with Bordeaux showed towards becoming a city-republic were tempered by ducal intervention to appoint its mayor and jurats . |
| 5 | Steve never worked in the shipyard , but he knew what it was like from Dad and Grandad and all their mates . |
| 6 | Mary de Wint ranked with Mrs Fields in seniority , though , as she never worked in the Hall , when Mrs Fields was off Staff Nurse Robins , the next in line , took her place . |
| 7 | Some were impatient of disarmament talks which never resulted in the abandoning of a single weapon ; some were appalled by Civil Defence pamphlets which advocated spending your last four minutes on earth whitewashing your windows and by planners who talked blithely in terms of ‘ megadeaths ’ ; some were convinced that Armageddon would be next week : the immensely influential film of On the Beach showed the last survivors , in Melbourne , waiting for death in 1963 . |
| 8 | This was a anti-tank and it fired a bomb and of course we put a demonstration on firing this and then we was up the Bell Lane end and right at the top by Bailey 's farm there was a row of seats , benches , along the walk there and of course the demonstration was we 'd show them imagine those seats are tanks course we never thought in the world we should ever even get near one anyway we hit one and broke it Cos they , they , I mean they was only dummies , they were n't , I mean there was no explosive just the dummy shell you know and we , we was quite pleased with ourselves being as we 'd got an audience . |
| 9 | If you take your wife out for a meal , you invite her out for your meal you just say , let's go Tuesday night , it never went in the diary . |
| 10 | The book was an abstract of a work which had not appeared , and which never did in the form envisaged ; this meant that it had no references or bibliography , and that in it Darwin wore his immense learning lightly . |
| 11 | I used to wrestle with my conscience as to whether I should ask Francis Bacon , but I never did in the end . |
| 12 | Laing made it clear that he despised his fellow MPs for affecting the common touch and wearing Olex ; he himself never appeared in the house without a worsted suit and a carnation . |
| 13 | In this same period I saw many hundreds of users who never featured in the arrest tables and took many to hospital . |
| 14 | Carolyn 's parents never drank in the house . |
| 15 | Although she was following in the footsteps of some very good leaders Lord Thurso felt she " never languished in the shade of her predecessors , but brought her own style of freshness and enthusiasm , backed by a deep and secure christian faith " . |