Example sentences of "never [vb past] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result many would-be house purchasers never qualified for a loan . |
| 2 | 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 ! ’ |
| 3 | In the first issue of Nord-Sud , a periodical which appeared in 1917 with the purpose of reintegrating and stimulating artistic life in Paris , Reverdy , feeling that some kind of objective evaluation of Cubism was by this time possible , wrote : ‘ Today for a privileged few the discipline can be taken for granted , and as they never sought for an art that was cold , mathematical and anti-plastic , wholly intellectual , the works which they offer us appeal to the lover of painting directly through the eye and the senses . |
| 4 | ‘ God it was awful , ’ he said , and made them laugh and accept what he said , and Barnett never asked for the certificate this time . |
| 5 | He never charged for the rooms and the journalists repaid him by keeping their custom at the bar . |
| 6 | This combination of Infirmary League and Friendly Society was a good insurance against sickness but , of course , there were always those who never provided for the rainy day . |
| 7 | Our Dean drew the ice-free peg and never caught for the first hour , as I predicted . |
| 8 | This aspect became even more important after 1963 when public sector intervention took the form of the provision of mass housing ( 'large flatted estates of a form never built for the market' ; Dunleavy , 1981:1 ) on redeveloped inner sites and in inner-ring locales like Killing worth . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly , therefore , a man never noted for the quality of patience had rushed bullheaded on the opportunity offered by the accession of Mary . |
| 11 | Souness was still grumbling about the decisions that went against his team — the penalty that gave Coventry their first goal , the free-kick that led to their second , an offside flag that never came for the third and the sending off of Jamie Redknapp . |
| 12 | They never paid for the groceries . |
| 13 | ‘ Mills never worked for the KGB . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They never thought for a moment about reverting to conventional agriculture , although Gareth had come from a research job with ICI . |
| 16 | I never thought for a minute we 'd come off that green with a shot in hand ; maybe one shot behind , never in front . |
| 17 | ‘ I never thought for a moment he would n't pull through , ’ said Alison . |
| 18 | ‘ I never thought for a moment he would n't pull through , ’ said Alison . |
| 19 | He was chosen for Scotland 's tour of North America in May , played in four of the six games , including the two non-cap Tests , and scored three tries : ‘ I was delighted to go but I never thought for a moment that I would make the Test side . |
| 20 | What is noticeable , however , is that Anthony Coburn never wrote for the series again after ‘ The Tribe of Gum ’ , and even on that story he did none of the rewriting which followed the less-than-successful screening of the pilot episode to BBC Department heads . |
| 21 | Comfort for Beleevers , a pastoral treatise never intended for the press , provoked a storm by declaring that God was in part the author of the sins of the godly . |