Example sentences of "never [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They were never about his work , but about his health , ’ he said . |
| 2 | He could sometimes be induced to talk about his presidency of the Guernsey Cattle Society , but never about his presidency of the international tribunal . |
| 3 | 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 … " ) |
| 4 | for me to sign , I said I 'm sorry I 'm not signing them and I would n't sign any of them and he went back and he said alright then we 'll leave it in your husband 's name , I said yes you 'd better had cos he still owns the house , yet all those bills have come through , I 've had water rates come through in my name , I 've had the electricity come through it 's in my name , the only one bill that was never in his name , never has been is the telephone and that 's included |
| 5 | The final accolade came in Barnes ' closing speech , when he announced that never in his experience , ‘ and I think rarely if ever in anybody 's experience , has a local group without legal representation appeared and presented their case so consistently over an enormously long inquiry such as this . ’ |
| 6 | Indeed , the speaker would go further ; never in his experience had Britain been so ably represented in the councils of the Common Market . |
| 7 | He had never in his life paired off to do this . |
| 8 | He said that he had examined the plans with Sir Joseph Paxton , the other member for Coventry , and ‘ had never in his life seen a building which appeared so confused in its internal arrangements ’ . |
| 9 | He 'd never in his life felt colder . |
| 10 | He also knew that never in his life would he be in a position to own one like it . |
| 11 | Gabriel had never in his life contemplated stealing so much as a flea from a dog . |
| 12 | In other words , the singularity would always lie in his future and never in his past . |
| 13 | Although it was never in his time subjected to the trial of a major war , it was given one partial blooding . |
| 14 | We do n't call him that , at least never to his face . |
| 15 | Her father was always very elegant , never without his hat , a Borsalino , and often smoking a thin cigar : He always spoke in the Parma dialect and was hardly ever at home except for meals or to see the farmers . |