Example sentences of "never [vb pp] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was always Bachelor No.2 and I was never picked for a date . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 3 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 4 | In any case , you 're almost never bailed for a rape charge . |
| 5 | Payment was never made for a vessel taken from its owner for royal service ; nor was compensation for loss of a ship , or even damage to its equipment , normally given . |
| 6 | ‘ I told you once , cara , I have never paid for a woman . ’ |
| 7 | Pallister was never chosen for a district or county side when he played schoolboy football on Teesside . |
| 8 | And the change now means that if a married woman , it does n't , as I say , it does n't affect single women , if a married woman now has n't earned income using all her allowances , so she does n't work has n't worked , never qualified for a pension , or does work but does n't earn more than that , and the couple have got investment income then it 's sensible to switch that into the wife 's name to give her income to use up her allowances . |