Example sentences of "it never [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I can see that people must have thought we were being very mysterious then , that we were a bit of a mystery , that The Bar was a very strange place ; but it never seemed that way to us .
2 Even when the central board of directors was expanded to include business and political elites as well as bureaucratic leaders , it never offered much depth in an analytical sense .
3 In the Labour movement it never made much impact , for it always remained an alien force , financed and directed from outside , but it achieved something in taking the battle on to the streets in order to break up the meetings of the left .
4 It never showed any sign of collapsing from within in the way that the governing regimes did in 1659 – 60 and 1688 .
5 Bednota was read very rarely in the villages and hardly ever subscribed to , because , as the peasants themselves recounted , it never printed real peasant articles but presented the countryside as some kind of fairyland .
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