Example sentences of "never [prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These detectives were never off their guard . |
| 2 | And Elinor was never off her guard . |
| 3 | She would shake her head and deftly speak of other matters , though never about her father 's past . |
| 4 | ‘ They were never about his work , but about his health , ’ he said . |
| 5 | He could sometimes be induced to talk about his presidency of the Guernsey Cattle Society , but never about his presidency of the international tribunal . |
| 6 | Equally dull rhetoric appears in : ( " Never during his life time though he were a hundred miles the other side of Rome in any circumstances would I take a mortal man to be my mate … " ) |
| 7 | Our advice for the first launch is — hands together , arms outstretched ( but never above your head as is so often attempted by first time flyers ) and as the kite rises , sustain an even line tension . |
| 8 | Should God create another Eve and I another rib of , yet loss of thee would never from my heart . |
| 9 | ‘ Christ ! ’ she said , and the next moment , forgetful of her own safety , she had Maggie in her arms , shushing and soothing as she had never in her life done before . |
| 10 | Her Aunt Elizabeth lived in a small house in the depths of the country near Hereford , and as she her self had never in her life been outside of Birmingham , the journey was like visiting a foreign country . |
| 11 | She had never in her life undressed in front of a man — not even a doctor . |
| 12 | But he does n't , and my mother wo n't tell him to go , because she 's never in her life told anyone to go , it is n't in her , but he 's grinding her into the ground , she ca n't work , she ca n't concentrate , he keeps talking to her all the time , and the baby cries , and it upsets her , for all that she keeps saying it does n't , and that it takes her back to the happiest years of her life , when we were all in plastic pants , I suppose she means , except I think we all had to wear wet woolly leggings , she had this thing about plastic pants being unhealthy . " |
| 13 | Clara was staggered and bewitched ; she had never in her life seen anything like it . |
| 14 | Never in her life had she felt so sure of anyone , as she did then of this enchanted warrior woman . |
| 15 | He went into her giant bathroom to take his mind off things and stood there awhile between her mirrors , thinking not particularly of how he looked himself but mostly of the inflections that she had caught from Fred , and also of how it must feel to be this negligently perfect child , who had obviously never in her life spent herself combating a flaw . |
| 16 | Never in her life had she felt less like eating than she did at this moment . |
| 17 | Charlotte had never in her life felt obliged to examine her relationships with anyone . |
| 18 | Never in her life had the penguin heard so many words . |
| 19 | And she meant it , for she liked her college room , she was even mildly proud of it , and the thought of entertaining Clelia in it did not alarm her , though she had a deep aversion to the notion of entertainment , and had never in her whole three years at University embarked on the ritual tea parties or more ambitious sherry parties that mark the social life of such establishments . |
| 20 | I mean , Diana herself has never in her lifetime uttered one statement that has been of any use to any member of the human race . ’ |
| 21 | Never in my life , he wrote , have I known so exactly what step to take after the step I am in the process of taking , and then what step to take after the step I will take after the step I am in the process of taking . |
| 22 | IT MAY surprise readers of this column that I have never in my life voted Conservative at a general election . |
| 23 | I have never in my life looked forward to starting a diet , but by the end of my holiday I could n't wait to get back on it to maintain my slimmer figure ( with every other diet I have put weight back on and more ! ) . |
| 24 | who was at Cambuslang at that time , commented " He seems hurt at being asked to preach as a candidate and I sympathize with him in this , as I think candidating and preaching contests are the most objectional things conceivable , and also the least satisfactory way possible of getting good ministers as a rule good men who have done their work well will not preach as candidates for myself I never in my life either preached as a candidate , offered for a parish or got a certificate . " |
| 25 | VISITING LADY : Never in my life . |
| 26 | ‘ I never in my life heard a train say licketty split or tickety boo , ’ protested Lydia . |
| 27 | " Never in my life have I questioned an appointment , " she said , weighing every word . |
| 28 | never in my life had I done anything like this before . |
| 29 | ‘ But then , I have never in my life known a single headmaster of whom that might not be said . ’ |
| 30 | Never in my life . ’ |