Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The precise point which was never treated in detail was the degree of imminence of the admittedly forthcoming dissolution of Turkey " . |
| 2 | It was rumoured that banknotes were never withdrawn from circulation but simply frayed away . |
| 3 | A Home Office spokesman said : ‘ It is an internal document and was never intended for publication . |
| 4 | The Video book was never intended for broadcast ; it is made from library film footage transferred to disc and tape for video issue , and aimed at the relatively limited number of people who will want to buy or hire it . |
| 5 | And why had she and Dionne never fallen In Love ? |
| 6 | Because she 'd never fallen in love , the head-over-heels , with-all-your-heart kind of love that made a woman 's world centre on one man for the rest of her life . |
| 7 | it 's one I 've never heard of prosperity |
| 8 | In any case , it is too difficult for me , and I wish I had been a movie comedian or something of the sort and had never heard of physics ’ . |
| 9 | Has he never heard of vivisection ? |
| 10 | I had never heard of river engineers until one morning a very harassed engineer rang to ask me to persuade the lady in question not to tie herself to the ancient pollard which he intended to fell . |
| 11 | To my surprise , she had never heard of harvest festivals . |
| 12 | ‘ Maybe you 've never heard of Plan Z ? |
| 13 | ‘ Have you never heard of bastard lines ? |
| 14 | I 'd never heard of work till that moment , and there I was thinking of myself dressed in trousers and sitting at a desk with a ledger . |
| 15 | Because er as far as I 'd concerned I 'd never heard of air raids before hand you know , know I had n't and I was , as I say , I was only nine and a half I know but er , I did use to speak to a lot more people than most , er lads of that age did like , you know . |
| 16 | Above all , it is sad that so many educated people have hardened themselves against science , because if they had not , and if instead of floundering historians who have never heard of Joseph Priestley and Erasmus Darwin , and effete scholars of English who have never heard of history , we had Renaissance men , then science might be more controllable , more easily and naturally directed to the fulfilment of human aims : an agent of democracy rather than ( as it so often has been ) of rule by military or commercial despotism . |
| 17 | If I did not add this information , I felt I should be told that he had never heard of M. Guérigny . |
| 18 | I 'd never heard of Eternity before , nor had anyone I knew . |
| 19 | People Howard has never heard of pick quarrels and pass out . |
| 20 | I had never heard of otter hunting and it did n't occur to me that there might be such a sport . |
| 21 | ‘ Mushy peas are described as the Caviar of the North , but the average Chinaman has never heard of caviar and thinks the ‘ North ’ is Outer Mongolia . ’ |
| 22 | They 've never heard of glass houses . |
| 23 | These children had n't learnt to be afraid of animals because they had never heard of Earth , the Burning , or the Book of Remembering . |
| 24 | Well I 'd never heard of salt being put down before ! |
| 25 | He was glad for them , they fought so ferociously , as if they had never heard of defeat , they who were already defeated . |
| 26 | Wish we 'd never heard of car dealers . |
| 27 | He or she will probably have never heard of magic or the pagan philosophies undergirding yoga exercises . |
| 28 | ‘ There are people who have never heard of shampoo , deodorant or a whole range of sanitary products , ’ says Bulent Tanla of Piar-Gallup , a market-research company in Istanbul . |
| 29 | Finally , children are never punished for disobedience . |
| 30 | He says he 's never travelled by car . |