Example sentences of "was never [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Afro-Caribbean woman described how she felt that she was never given a choice of provision for her son , and objected to being told he should be in a specialist nursery for his own good . |
| 2 | I ca n't help but think , chairman , in my career I was never given a bottle of whisky to help with the |
| 3 | I was never given a choice because he clearly did n't want me . |
| 4 | ‘ I was never given the details , but Mum did remark that you had n't had an easy time . ’ |
| 5 | That is one of the theories expressed by many why Hoddle was never given the freedom Gascoigne is now enjoying . |
| 6 | In Moscow at least , in official circles the activity in which he saw his life 's meaning was never given the recognition that it deserved . |
| 7 | I was never given the chance to write Stephen a letter explaining why I gave him up for when he is older or anything . |
| 8 | Our Hayes-compatible modem , a Miracle Technology WS3000 , needs a Return code so whilst the information was sent to the modem it was never given the go ahead to dial . |
| 9 | Set up in I 978 with the twin missions of keeping Israeli troops out of southern Lebanon and helping the Lebanese government to control the Palestinians there , it was never given the strength to do either . |
| 10 | in specific terms I ca n't remember , I would have certainly of said that for the year er nineteen eighty eight we should build into our budget an amount , what that amount was I ca n't remember , but er that was , that was never given the go ahead |
| 11 | I mean you have the idea , you want to expand advertising , which means you 've got to spend more money and you said it was never given the go ahead , who at the end of the day would decide about whether it had the go ahead or not ? |
| 12 | He shrewdly observed that the most important thing for a teacher was never to use a book that failed . |
| 13 | Though Fox was never to give a distinguished lecture , his friends were triumphant . |
| 14 | The prosperity of Cadiz , based on the American trade , was to decline sharply in the nineteenth century and allow Barcelona to take over its position as the exemplar of middle-class civilization , although it was never to replace the Andalusian towns as nurseries of liberal politicians . |
| 15 | British shipbuilding was never to recover the world pre-eminence it had during this period , although the yards were to do well until the late 1960s . |
| 16 | The biography suggests that Eliot was never to lose the divided sense of his youth that human life is futile and meaningless — that man is ‘ a finite piece of reasonable misery ’ , in the words of William Drummond of Hawthornden , a good poet who was also a great plagiarist , and a great seeker of shelter in books — but that an eternal order might be felt for , or invented . |
| 17 | ‘ But my intention in bringing you in here was never to enjoy the pleasure of your body . |
| 18 | But I think you realized that I was never using the words seriously . ’ |
| 19 | It was never to make a living , because there was no living to be made . |
| 20 | Cox was never to make a better film . |
| 21 | Interest rate was never judged the most important factor ( nor was total cost of credit ) with things costing up to £100 , and with these even adding in people 's second and third choice factors showed that interest rates only had some importance for about 12 per cent of shoppers . |
| 22 | I was never to learn the full range of Mme Guérigny 's bigotry . |
| 23 | whether possible or not , it was never contemplated The Labour party leadership failed consistently to put principle into practice , while the rank-and-file opposition to party politics , as expressed by the Labour Spain Committee , confused imperatives and failed to effect a radical change of policy . |
| 24 | Within the NEB it was clear that a regional — let alone a city — dimension was never to play a very important role in determining policy . |
| 25 | He was never to become a party member , and was not conversant with Marxist ideas in 1922 . |
| 26 | It was never to become a place of palaces and princes . |
| 27 | It was , however , becoming possible to foresee local initiatives developing into a network which , although unlike the railways was never to become a truly national system of transport , would link the main industrial regions back to their sources of supply and , to a lesser extent , forward to their outlets . |
| 28 | It is understood the British rival was never offered the opportunity to improve its bid . |
| 29 | He was examined several times by Dr Crockett in his surgery , but was never told a kidney would be removed . |
| 30 | He was examined several times by Dr Crockett in his surgery , but was never told a kidney would be removed . |