Example sentences of "never [adj] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was never afraid of Flint in his life and , by thunder , I 'll face him dead ! |
| 2 | As is the labour so is the living ; for where the poor are full of work , they are never empty of wages ; they eat while the others starve , and have a tolerable plenty . |
| 3 | Mayer was never fond of Goldwyn and one day became so enraged with him in the showers of the Hillcrest Country Club that he knocked Goldwyn into the towel cabinet . |
| 4 | I was never conscious of pain , even with a torn ear , a broken nose and split lips , but I do remember occasions of desperate tiredness , and of effort to keep my hands up or stay on my feet . |
| 5 | And the other thing is , that if I 'm actually honest with myself and say who I am envious of , I 'm almost never envious of actors , never of directors , but I am envious occasionally of writers . |
| 6 | Her mother never tired of speaking of her own father , Don Humberto , who had been a gentleman adventurer and a favourite at the court of King John , but she had never met Dom João and could only assure Sara that if he was at all like his grandfather or his Uncle Pedro ( the one who had died at sea ) he would be a man of great charm , intelligence and wit . |
| 7 | I am never tired of hearing — oh , those sounding silks , so uncomfortable , so gorgeous . |
| 8 | Perhaps because Angell 's analysis did not attack the Establishment , he was never short of friends in high places . |
| 9 | We 're never short of mugs ? |
| 10 | Life is never short of decisions — many are charged with emotion . |
| 11 | You see we were never hungry , although you know er times were bad and all that , you were never short of money either . |
| 12 | FINANCIAL regulators are never short of critics . |
| 13 | Brian Clough 's teams are never short of resilience or adaptability , though , and they made a fight of it throughout . |
| 14 | In the 1950s , when Gloucestershire were never short of off-spinners , he ‘ took ’ them with unwavering skill . |
| 15 | She was never short of admirers because the invitation in her pale blue eyes drew many men to her . |
| 16 | This part of the world is never short of tales and stories , and the Altnacealgach Hotel , by the shores of Loch Borralan , was a good place to hear them . |
| 17 | Lung are never short of ideas , but their appeal is seriously limited because they give us a small taste of everything on their creative menu but seldom enough of one thing to really satisfy . |
| 18 | He 's never short of wine . |
| 19 | Then between that and I was never short of sweets , during the war . |
| 20 | The information was also accurate ; Nationalist Spain , based on the agricultural regions of Spain and constantly expanding its territory faster than its population , was never short of food . |
| 21 | Women were most resistant to his strictures , claiming that when they served the goddess , they were never short of food . |
| 22 | After 20 years working in the Social Work Department it will be hard for Jack to leave a job that has been often exhausting and demanding , but never short of interest and challenge and which he has really enjoyed doing . |
| 23 | We apprentices were never short of advice on what was wrong with society and the system . |
| 24 | Never intolerant of individuals , he had little patience for pettiness of mind . |