Example sentences of "he [be] never [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fighters who have been in with him are never the same again , ’ he said last week . |
| 2 | He were never the same when he came off mainline . |
| 3 | In the Sonnets , clearly , the speaker is sometimes placed in a respectful relationship , the disinterested friend advising a brilliant young man to marry ; at other times he is an equal , celebrating a friendship or reproaching its betrayal ; but he is never the superior . |
| 4 | He may be an artful dodger but he 's never a bore . |
| 5 | He 's never a car there to when he wants to go |
| 6 | He was never a man to be deprived of the sun and the soft wind in his face . |
| 7 | ‘ He was never a progressive musician , ’ recalls pianist Gerry Moore , who in contrast always was , ‘ but he had the most beautiful tone . |
| 8 | Although he was never a political defector , he said he probably would not have come back before President Gorbachev launched his perestroika policy . |
| 9 | He was never a typical military dictator , nor was his Panama to be compared with Pinochet 's Chile . |
| 10 | He was never a favourite character of mine , as I do not approve of the British partition and subsequent desertion of India , mismanaged by Mountbatten against a horrific background of massacres . |
| 11 | He was never a precise golfer in the mould of Hogan , but his magnificent tactical management enabled him to calculate the exact odds in moments of high tension . |
| 12 | He was never a lover of practice . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He goes on to explain that he was never a follower of Spinoza ( the seventeenth-century philosopher , who identified God with Nature ) . |
| 15 | Finch always maintained that he was never a hellraiser and that his image was wishful publicity by the press . |
| 16 | He was never a help to his father , but even so … |
| 17 | ‘ He was never a groper . ’ |
| 18 | But he was never a man intent on building up a score . |
| 19 | He was never a teacher in a narrow pianistic sense , was never a mere driller of scales . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | From 1828 until 1853 he was mathematics tutor of Wadham College , though he was never a fellow . |
| 22 | He was never a utopian communitarian of the Owenite type . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Mark was my brother ; I know he had his faults , but he was never a liar . ’ |
| 26 | Before Glastonbury got past it , we used to play a lot of bridge and although he was never a real gambler , he used to enjoy going to casinos with me to play backgammon . ’ |
| 27 | He was never a Daley Thompson fan , he admits , but not with any brash disrespect . |
| 28 | He was never a well man . |
| 29 | no , he was never a fat boy |
| 30 | He was never the same player again , still in with a chance going into the last round but then fading away with a 75 . |