Example sentences of "never [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is steady because , though it moves , it is never wholly in motion ; and though it is tranquil , it is never wholly at rest . |
| 2 | It is steady because , though it moves , it is never wholly in motion ; and though it is tranquil , it is never wholly at rest . |
| 3 | He says Slaley Hall was scuppered by three main problems : ‘ The funding was never properly in place . |
| 4 | One is never entirely without satisfaction when one 's friends are in a mess , one looks at once to how one can enlarge oneself by interfering . ’ |
| 5 | But I could do it , I could do me sums and everything , but er I never always in number one class . |
| 6 | Never before in history have the poor financed the rich on such a lavish scale . |
| 7 | Never before in history have the poor financed the rich on such a lavish scale . |
| 8 | ’ . I was never perfectly at ease . |
| 9 | Therefore they are never perfectly at ease and may toss and turn in bed . |
| 10 | The Council 's Liberal bias , however , was never really in doubt : when the 1895 meeting met in Birmingham the Conservative Mayor welcomed delegates . |
| 11 | But the vote , 43 to 24 in favour of a ban was never really in doubt . |
| 12 | Yet he seemed never quite at ease with his Christianity . |
| 13 | She was never quite at ease with Finn , in spite of playing ‘ Battleships ’ with him ; his oblique glance sidled around her and he grinned as if he knew secrets about her which he would not share . |
| 14 | As well as trying to avoid the numerous pot-holes along the route , not always successfully , Myeloski was not the most accomplished of drivers , being one of those people who were never quite in tune with their machine . |
| 15 | They are never there without reason . |
| 16 | When the Civil War broke out in England in the 1640s , it could be taken calmly enough in most of the American colonies because the colonists had no particular desire for changes ; in Maryland the Protestants did want changes , and by 1655 they had taken power from the Catholic minority , though the new government was never completely in control of the situation and Catholics maintained a more satisfactory position than they could have in any other territory under English rule at the time . |
| 17 | and never nowhere without no : that pure , |
| 18 | The outcome was never seriously in doubt , although our eventual majority of 144 seats substantially overstated our support . |
| 19 | It was never seriously in dispute , of course , that black and white people alike were caught up in the summer disturbances of 1981 . |