Example sentences of "never [vb pp] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From this point of view the French have never regarded fascism as an aberration , concurring rather with Césaire and Fanon that it can be explained quite simply as European colonialism brought home to Europe by a country that had been deprived of its overseas empire after World War I. French poststructuralism , therefore , involves a critique of reason as a system of domination comparable to that of the Frankfurt School , but rather than setting up the possibility of a purged reason operating in an unblocked , ideal speech situation as a defence against tyranny and coercion in the manner of a Habermas , it reanalyses the operations of reason as such . |
| 2 | The strength of any particular syllable can be measured by counting up the number of times an s symbol occurs above it ; the levels in the sentence shown above can be diagrammed like this ( leaving out syllables that have never received stress at any level ) : |
| 3 | In generative phonology , a results from vowel reduction in vowels which have never received stress in the process of the application of stress rules . |
| 4 | His father had never received compensation from the British Government — his government — for the destruction of his property by those cursed Sinn Feiners . |
| 5 | Unlike its East End rivals , however , Truman 's never stopped brewing at Burton , and its Black Eagle brewery there only finally closed in 1970 . |
| 6 | He had played classical music on the stereo , which Boy had assured him he liked , and it was true ; Boy had never heard music like this before and he thought it was wonderful , a sound as big , and as warm , and as expensive as the car ; a sound as exciting as the sensation of being driven through the night by a stranger . |
| 7 | He had never favoured telepathy as a means of communication ; something about rolling words about on his tongue ( particularly ones with lots of rs in ) appealed too much to him . |
| 8 | Despite the fact that Yugoslavia was more market-conscious than some other socialist countries , the development of exports was never given priority in its industrial strategy . |
| 9 | Typically he was never given acknowledgement for his part in its creation . |
| 10 | Never given office by the Liberals , he served as a back-bencher on several royal commissions and committees . |
| 11 | The wonder was , that the brass door-plate , with the interesting inscription ‘ MRS TIBBS ’ , had never caught fire from constant friction , so perseveringly was it polished . |
| 12 | However , a PFLP-GC statement broadcast by Al-Quds on Feb. 7 pointed out that it had never claimed responsibility for the attack . |
| 13 | Having an excellent harbour , Vancouver was a sportsman 's paradise so far as swimming , fishing , and boating were concerned , and while I have never claimed prowess in the water or in angling I have found pleasure on a boat , provided that boat was big enough — big enough that is , for me to sit comfortably on deck , preferably with a drink in hand , and watch the world go by . |
| 14 | And we were walking up and down on the beach at Aldeburgh and the most interesting part of our conversation was that we were saying we both started out as not conservatives , I 've never voted conservative in my life , but we started out as very loyal people . |
| 15 | Indeed the legendary ‘ Hawk ’ had led Dave Forbes on the never revealed mission to Iran in 1980 to rescue a British hostage . |
| 16 | I have never felt discrimination in England because I am Italian . |
| 17 | He 'd never felt skin like that , velvet skin , warm and slippery skin that absorbed him into her . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've never felt pressure like that , not even during the World Cup two years ago , because of what might have happened had we lost . |
| 19 | I 've never felt hostility like that before , there was violence everywhere , I could smell it like something crawling out of the ground , it was like having second sight , the sense that something terrible was going to happen and there was nothing you could do to stop it . |
| 20 | Leave this Europe where they are never done talking of Man , yet murder men everywhere they find them , at the corner of every one of their own streets , in all corners of the globe . |
| 21 | For Cadfael was certain that Tutilo had never done violence to any man , and must not be marked with that obloquy for life . |
| 22 | He had never seen hair of such a full , glowing gold , or a fairer brow underneath it . |
| 23 | Lou has never seen love as a sufficient motive for anyone doing anything , which , when it comes to it , I daresay is why I left . |
| 24 | I am entirely convinced that Joseph Kosuth has never seen work by Claudio Parmiggiani either actually or in reproduction . |
| 25 | I 've never seen Puss in Boots . |
| 26 | I had certainly never seen entertainment like this in any of the countries I had visited before . |
| 27 | Auck Auckland and we went there and we went into this restaurant well believe it or not , I 've never seen food like that , I mean Joy asked for a leg of lamb , I did n't say leg of lamb , I had the cod pieces |
| 28 | He waited until Berthon — with whom Rudd had never seen eye to eye — took a holiday and grafted a new front end on to Jean Behra 's car . |
| 29 | The two have never seen eye to eye apparently and although some papers called him a hothead , Horton insists he was n't going to have a go at the ref , who was given a police escort back to the dressing rooms . |
| 30 | He had never written verse of this kind before , and it did not come easily to him : the drafts of these scenes underwent most revision . |