Example sentences of "never [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I never 'ad a French lady lodger before — mind , it 's four shillings a week , being a nice large front room with a comfortin' bed and an 'andsome fireplace . ’ |
| 2 | I never met a queer yet who could n't be fixed by a sock in the jaw . ’ |
| 3 | When d' you meet any real people apart from those limousine sharks and cordless telephone freaks who never met an ordinary person , do n't know any ordinary people : how they live , we live , nor how we die , I mean how they die . ’ |
| 4 | I never met the right woman . |
| 5 | " I know you 're a faggot and everything but I 'll tell you what the problem is : you just never met the right guy . |
| 6 | Never met the Aged . |
| 7 | He never met the young air force crew , never even saw them , yet he has never forgotten them either . |
| 8 | Even the most optimistic forecasters , though , never expected the Japanese to change their mode of social operation overnight . |
| 9 | West European governments never expected the Final Act to work an instant revolution in international affairs and it was always understood that many questions lay beyond its scope . |
| 10 | ‘ I never expected the first scrap to be so easy , ’ Callaghan said . |
| 11 | The Wall itself never became a complete line of defences . |
| 12 | As a result , although his club was one of the first to develop Smiley culture , much to his relief Danny never became a tabloid Mr Big . |
| 13 | His boyhood feats set the pace for a long and successful career as an international grandmaster , but , though he scored some spectacular defeats , Reshevsky never became a close challenger for the world championship . |
| 14 | As an operating system the canals never became a large-scale employer like the railway companies , whose " servants " as well as engineers and trackmen on the " permanent way " included the new " uniformed working class " . |
| 15 | Spectator sport may have been partially commercialized but it never became a capitalist leisure enterprise . |
| 16 | The rival claims of the two departments never became a contentious matter among the ‘ boy labour ’ group of reformers , though the majority appear to have favoured the Board of Trade . |
| 17 | Burgess was lonely and bored , missed his bohemian life in Soho , never attempted to learn Russian , and never became a Russian citizen . |
| 18 | He sat as one of the justices of King 's Bench in Easter term 1271 but never became a regular justice of the court . |
| 19 | Unlike the role it played in the IFL , political anti-semitism never became a total ideological explanation of all the imagined ills of British society for most of the official leadership of the BUF , though there were obvious exceptions like William Joyce and some of the speakers he trained for the East End campaign of 1935 — 7 . |
| 20 | For although his daughter Maire never became a top ballet star she is a member of a highly successful family band . |
| 21 | For this reason , Mayall 's dominance was confined to the spinning sector of south-east Lancashire , and his firm never became a conspicuous leader of the cotton industry in the manner of Horrockses of Preston or Rylands of Manchester . |
| 22 | Even then Chaplin avoided being too socially specific , for over and above this there was his own never quite fully adult quality and his essential reliance on mime technique and silence which ensured that he remained a fairy-tale symbol and never became a real-life person . |
| 23 | And it never became an authentic co-operative . |
| 24 | Certainly he never became an outstanding dancer , but as a performer he did have a feeling for movement and character that enabled him to make a theatrical impact in some roles not needing much technique or classical style . |
| 25 | She 'd never been driven that fast before , never experienced the sheer exhilaration and heart-stopping fear that merged into one as the F40 powered on the knife edge of its optimum limits . |
| 26 | Carolyn never experienced the same sort of anguished worry about her as she had with Chris . |
| 27 | Well I buy Writers Monthly , but I never read the damn thing , you know , so I |
| 28 | I 'm covered in a fine glossy sheen of drying mud so maybe they never got a good grip in the first place . |
| 29 | ARSENAL manager George Graham last night sold Perry Groves to Southampton and said : ‘ He never got a fair deal from the fans . ’ |
| 30 | Our pens were collected up at the end of each session , so we never got the same pen twice , resulting in the nibs being frequently crossed . |