Example sentences of "never [vb past] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ God it was awful , ’ he said , and made them laugh and accept what he said , and Barnett never asked for the certificate this time . |
| 2 | He never charged for the rooms and the journalists repaid him by keeping their custom at the bar . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Our Dean drew the ice-free peg and never caught for the first hour , as I predicted . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly , therefore , a man never noted for the quality of patience had rushed bullheaded on the opportunity offered by the accession of Mary . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They never paid for the groceries . |
| 9 | ‘ Mills never worked for the KGB . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |