Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [noun prp] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Britain appeared to have little interest in the area , Russia was preoccupied with her domestic problems , and in any case the Tsar had never forgiven Austria for her lack of support during the Crimean War . |
| 2 | Jack 's Irish blood made him sympathize with the Levellers — the Irish have never forgiven Cromwell for the Drogheda massacre , you know . |
| 3 | Morris , it seems , has never forgiven Karajan for this piece of seeming musical dissimulation which he evidently regarded , and still regards , as a moral outrage . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's never forgiven Josh for Ebbie dying the way he did . |
| 5 | She had never met Naomi in her life , but in death she grew to love her : she had taken her into herself , had learned her likings , had read her books and tried ( although not herself musical ) to listen to her music , she had spoken much of her to the children , had insisted upon treating her as an ally , as a friend beyond the grave , had reinvented her and kept her close to them — oh , not without awareness of the dangers , of the necessary distortions and consolations , but then all life is danger , and Liz had embarked willingly upon its full tide with those three small boys , with that ambitious , importunate widower and that friendly ghost . |
| 6 | Fortunately , we in this Parliament have never seen Maastricht as an end . |
| 7 | ‘ I have never seen Soho on the screen , ’ wrote Ernest Betts in 1928 and then he added that he had never seen Southend , Birmingham , Chelsea , Bloomsbury , or London suburbia either . |
| 8 | I had never seen Cherry in a suit before . |
| 9 | Can you imagine that these people have never listened to canned music or swigged a ‘ Coke ’ , never twiddled with radio frequencies , never seen Dallas on TV , never answered the phone , and never played Space Invaders ? |
| 10 | I 'd never seen Paula in , in glasses , ever , other than in photographs |
| 11 | They stared at each other for a moment before Mick added , ‘ You 've never seen Carrie for years , have you ? ’ |
| 12 | It is not clear whether these were part of the advance column who had been marched back from Bleiburg or some of the vast majority of the Croats who had never entered Austria at all . |
| 13 | She 'd never imagined Steve to be the marrying sort but … |
| 14 | Why had she never imagined Bella as a redhead ? |
| 15 | She had never asked Rachel for anything . |
| 16 | Funny , Mick had never mentioned Carrie in years . |