Example sentences of "never [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result many would-be house purchasers never qualified for a loan . |
| 2 | As mentioned above , although the exiled inhabitants of Siberia never amounted to a large proportion of the total population , nevertheless they did make a significant quantitative and qualitative contribution during the seventeenth century to the region 's manpower resources — accounting for around 11 per cent of the total , and engaged in a variety of administrative , military , clerical and agricultural occupations essential to the proper management of the newly-conquered territories . |
| 3 | I even got to the point where I was an approved parliamentary candidate , but I never applied for a seat so I ca n't say I was ever rejected ! ’ |
| 4 | As for the Movement , or the Angry Young Men of the 1950s , the intellectual and popular press were not wrong to believe that a new race of novelists ( and others ) had appeared in the first months of the new reign , soon after the death of George VI ; but the name Movement coined by a Spectator journalist in 1954 never seemed likely to fit for long , or Angry Young Men either ; they never met as a group , though they were ( at least for the most part ) acquainted . |
| 5 | Other stories about Dic , Little Dick the Carpenter — how he never got to a rugby match because there were too many pubs on the way , how he was burnt all over in a pit explosion , wrapped in bandages so that only his eyes and nostrils showed through — and bathed slowly back to health by his daughters who poured olive oil over him all the time , how he took his daughter Cecilia ( Cis ) to eisteddfods because he loved to hear her sing but how she pleaded with him ‘ not to stop anywhere and not to leave her in the hall ’ . |
| 6 | Eastern never recovered from a crippling strike in 1989 and now faces liquidation . |
| 7 | Second-placed Durham never recovered from a three goal blast in the first 20 minutes at Ryhope , going down 4–2 . |
| 8 | Prestwick 's David Gourlay , jun , and Robert McCulloch never recovered from a disastrous start against the Welsh pair of Stephen Rees and John Price who held a 15-0 six-end lead and went on to win 28-11 . |
| 9 | There were regular travellers whom they came to recognise , people who crossed the forest three or four times a year , foremen in charge of the great waggons of building-stones , or carters with consignments of wheat from the eastern cornlands , or drovers with herds of cattle or flocks of sheep … these last never ventured without a large escort . |
| 10 | It seems hard to believe that we flower children of the 1960s and 1970s never doubted for a second that we would eventually find fulfilling jobs . |
| 11 | It also sprayed urine in a desultory fashion , but never behaved like a full-blooded tom at any stage . |
| 12 | But we never played to a tape , either . |
| 13 | I ai n't never played with a proper doll before . |
| 14 | ‘ We never played with a full deck ’ , complained Clair George . |
| 15 | He never played in a Test again and was to retire three years later . |
| 16 | I never believed as a Tory MP to be in a situation where I would condemn the actions of a Tory Government in a matter of this kind . ’ |
| 17 | Or , again , one might suppose that this section has extended equitable doctrines to cases to which Equity did not apply them , because they formerly never came into a Court of Equity . |
| 18 | Then Nigel got injured so the thing never came to a head . |
| 19 | He never came to a conclusion for Angelina and Oliver came at just the wrong moment , just as the fish required the hand of the maître . |
| 20 | Potatoes , car any anything they had , butter and milk , you never came from a farm in the old days without something in your hand . |
| 21 | Now , at 41 , he still insists , ‘ In a way I am an amateur — I never cooked under a chef . ’ |
| 22 | The jealousies and animosities which characterised the countries of Eastern Europe before the Second World War never developed into a coherent aspiration towards supranationalism on the West European pattern . |
| 23 | ‘ I never heard of a transmat with a range of more than a few thousand kilometres , so I 'd say we 're probably going somewhere else on this planet . ’ |
| 24 | I never heard of a spaceship as big as this ! |
| 25 | it it , it never worked in a sense that it was n't commercially viable |
| 26 | Swindon Town 's run of success nearly came to a stop at Luton on Wednesday night … you must have heard that favourite football cliche about there never being an easy game … it was one of those for Town … they missed Glenn Hoddle 's influence and never settled against a Luton side that need the points just as badly to save themselves from relegation … |
| 27 | Four hours a day in a blazing saddle can leave its mark , but my bottom was fine , the terrain being so rough that we never broke into a trot , let alone a gallop . |
| 28 | He raised his right fist in the air and then his left , and he waved to the crowd but never broke into a big smile in celebration . |
| 29 | Mr Major , reading from briefing notes , said : ‘ I believe the ex-convener at Timex said those dismissed never called for a sit-down demonstration and do not sponsor violence . |
| 30 | Would you not be highly suspicious of the mechanic who services your car , if you found that he did not buy or borrow his most important tools , did not know how to use them , never looked into a tool-shop window and had had no instruction in the use of the tools from the foreman ? |